Thursday, November 29, 2012

SUHRKAMP CHIEF DEPOSED BY COURT ORDER



In the dispute with CEO Unseld Berkéwicz Verlagsmitbesitzer Barlach has won a partial victory. But still, the sacking of his opponent yet final.

Suhrkamp chief Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz has been dismissed as a court order, according to Managing Director of the publishing house. The Regional Court of Berlin was a decision of the general meeting from November 2011 into force retroactively.

The Court has sustained the minority shareholder Hans Barlach law. He had complained in 2011 against the then management. The charge: The Board had exceeded its powers and funds misappropriated. Barlach had complained that the management had harmed by renting meeting rooms in the private home of Unseld Berkéwicz the publisher.

Barlach owns 39 percent of the Suhrkamp Verlag, Unseld Berkéwicz holds a family trust, the remaining 61 percent. Both are at odds for a long time.

Liable for damages

Suhrkamp lawyer Peter Raue explained, unless the decision was final, to not alter the current management. He believes that the publishing tip go to the appeal. First, however, they were waiting from the court's opinion.

The court's decision refers first to the parent company of the publisher. According to the decision but also the two co-CEO of Unseld Berkéwicz be dismissed. At the request of the Court required the three Barlach also pay around 282,500 euros compensation to the publisher.

In February 2013, the Commercial Chamber of the Landgericht Frankfurt decision on the request of the two parties to the dispute, be mutually exclusive from the publisher. A success would be a resolution of the Company equal.

The publisher had determined over decades social debates of the Federal Republic. After the death of the patriarch publisher Siegfried Unseld in 2002 broke out intrigues and power struggles. Widow Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz 2003 soared to the top of the management. A member of the prestigious Board of Trustees, which includes Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Jürgen Habermas members, resigned in protest, were more managers.

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