Joachim Meinecke died on January 25 at the age of 79. This is what ZF writes in a press release. He has therefore been a member of the ZF Supervisory Board since 2009.
The Board of Trustees of Dr. The lawyer has been a member of the Jürgen and Irmgard Ulderup Foundation, one of the two shareholders of ZF Friedrichshafen, since 2008. In 2011 he took over the chairmanship of the foundation.
Joachim Meinecke, born in Danzig in 1943, studied law at the Universities of Tübingen, Cologne and Freiburg after graduating from high school. After completing his doctorate at the law faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, he worked between 1970 and 1974 in the legal clerkship of the higher regional court district of Karlsruhe.
That was Meinecke’s career
In the meantime, he also completed a year abroad as a teaching assistant at the University of Illinois in the USA. There he obtained a Master of Comparative Law (MCL).
From then on, Meinecke worked for three years as a research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law and Roman Law. He was admitted to the bar at the Freiburg Regional Court in 1974.
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From 1977 to 1980 the lawyer worked in a law firm in Freiburg and subsequently founded his own law firm. Most recently, Meinecke was a partner in the Meinecke Seibt Kaiser law firm (MSK). His main areas of activity were inheritance, corporate, tax and civil law.
Companion of important decisions
Since 2009 Dr. Joachim Meinecke Member of the Supervisory Board of ZF Friedrichshafen, since the end of 2010 also a member of the Presidential Committee of the control body.
He took over the chairmanship in 2011. The Jürgen and Irmgard Ulderup Foundation holds a 6.2 percent stake in the company, while the Zeppelin Foundation of the city of Friedrichshafen holds 93.8 percent of the shares in ZF.
“With his calm and level-headed manner, Dr. During his many years on the supervisory board and foundation, Joachim Meinecke helped set the course for the ZF Group and accompanied the company prudently and constructively,” writes the company.
ZF: “Committed personality with high integrity”
He always respected the interests of the employees of the former Lemforder Group, which has been majority owned by ZF since 1984, but never lost sight of the development of the company as a whole.
“With him, ZF has lost a committed personality with a high level of integrity and profound legal and economic expertise,” it continues. With respect and gratitude, ZF will honor Joachim Meinecke’s memory.
