Manfred Lahnstein is a German politician (SPD

Social Democratic Party of Germany

The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...

). In 1982 he was German Federal Minister of Finance

Federal Minister of Finance (Germany)

The Federal Ministry of Finance is part of the German federal government and is responsible for managing the federal budget. The finance minister is the only minister who can veto a decision of the government if it would lead to additional expenditure...

 as well as Federal Minister of Economics and until 2004 worked for the media conglomerate Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann AG is a multinational media corporation founded in 1835, based in Gütersloh, Germany. The company operates in 63 countries and employs 102,983 workers , which makes it the most international media corporation in the world. In 2008 the company reported a €16.118 billion consolidated...

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Family

As the son of a country doctor in Erkrath Manfred Lahnstein grew up with three siblings.
Manfred Lahnstein is married to Sonja Lahnstein-Kandel. They live in Hamburg and have one daughter and a son from his first marriage Lahnstein, the investment manager

Investment management

Investment management is the professional management of various securities and assets in order to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of the investors...

 Florian Lahnstein

Florian Lahnstein

Florian Lahnstein is one of Germany's leading corporate managers. Born in Düsseldorf, he is CEO and Founding Partner of RiverRock European Capital Partners LLP, an alternative asset management firm which he co-founded with Prof. Roland Berger...

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Career

In 1982, Lahnstein became West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

's Minister of Finance under Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Prior to becoming chancellor, he had served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance. He had also served briefly as Minister of Economics and as acting...

. To 1983 he was professional politician. In 1983 Manfred Lahnstein was recruited by Bertelsmann AG in Gütersloh, from the Bundestag

Bundestag

The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...

. At Bertelsmann, he was initially on the board responsible for printing and industrial enterprises, and moved in 1994 as a member of the Supervisory Board. From 1998 to 2004 he worked for the Bertelsmann Group, as special representative of the Board.

From 1986 he is professor of culture and media management at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg

The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger universities of music in Germany.It was founded 1950 as Staatliche Hochschule für Musik on the base of the former private acting school of Annemarie Marks-Rocke and Eduard Marks.Studies include various music types from church music...

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Since 1994 he heads in Hamburg the consulting firm Lahnstein & Partners, International Consultants.

Since 1996 he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of one of Germany's largest private foundations, the ZEIT-Stiftung

ZEIT-Stiftung

The Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius was founded in 1971 by Gerd Bucerius . The name refers to the founder, his second wife Gertrud Ebel whose nickname was Ebelin, and to the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, which was founded by Gerd Bucerius. The foundation is registered in Hamburg...

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In February 2009 he was appointed to the Supervisory Board of the London-based investment company Berger

Roland Berger

-References:...

 Lahnstein Middelhoff

Thomas Middelhoff

Thomas Middelhoff is a German corporate manager. He was on the board of directors of Bertelsmann from 1990–2002, being CEO from 1998...

 & Partners LLP (BLM Partners).

Manfred Lahnstein is an adviser to the Saudi conglomerate Olayan Group

Olayan Group

The Olayan Group , is a Saudi conglomerate established in 1947 by Sulaiman S. Olayan and his son Khaled S. Olayan . The Olayan Group traces its origins back to the General Contracting Company , founded to work on the construction of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline alongside the American contracting...

 and the investment bank Rothschild

N M Rothschild & Sons

N M Rothschild & Sons is a private investment banking company, belonging to the Rothschild family...

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External links

• http://bucerius.haifa.ac.il/lahnsteinsite.html Curriculum vitae of Prof. Dres. h.c. Manfred Lahnstein on Bucerius Institute for Research.