24 Facts About Giorgio Behr

In 2017, following differences with the Zeppelin Foundation and the Lord Mayor of Friedrichshafen, Giorgio Behr resigned from his position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

Giorgio Behr studied law at the University of Zurich, where he graduated in 1971 and received his doctorate in 1974.

Giorgio Behr began his professional career in 1971 as a commercial school teacher in Zurich and Schaffhausen, starting in 1972, he worked at the auditing firm Fides, for which he worked from home and abroad until 1982 and specialized in renovating and restructuring companies.

Parallel to his professional career, Giorgio Behr began his academic career in 1989 and initially became a lecturer at the University of St Gallen and from 1990, a professor of business administration with a main focus on accounting.

At that time, Giorgio Behr was commissioned to renovate the Bercher-based apparatus builder Bircher.

When no buyer could be found for Bircher, Giorgio Behr took over the enterprise threatened by bankruptcy, together with Anton Bucher Bechtler and the management.

In 1993, Giorgio Behr belonged to the founding team of Bank am Bellevue.

Giorgio Behr represented Switzerland in the accounting bodies of the UN and the OECD, in the WP1 of the IOSCO and the Swiss Exchange in the EFRAG.

Giorgio Behr was, from the founding of the Standard Setter, for accounting in Switzerland, Swiss GAAP FER, Committee of the Commission and president of the Commission of the FER.

Giorgio Behr was President of the Financial Reporting Working Group of SWX Swiss Exchange.

In 2008, Giorgio Behr attracted attention, in particular through takeover attempts by listed companies, and in the process received fierce rejection responses from the respective companies.

The shareholders and the management of Sia Abrasives, fought the planned commitment of the Swiss entrepreneur Giorgio Behr and preferred instead, a takeover by the German, Robert Bosch GmbH.

In November 2008, Giorgio Behr acquired, via its BDS investment company AG, a stake of 6.36 percent in the Swiss industrial group Georg Fischer, making it the largest single shareholder of the company.

On 24 May 2011, the legal service of the FDF ceased proceedings after Giorgio Behr made a reparation payment of one million francs.

When, in 2005, the free newspaper Schaffhauser Bock got into financial difficulties and the jobs were endangered, Giorgio Behr took over the publishing rights and enabled the entrepreneur Rene Steiner an orderly execution of its activities as well as the rescue of the jobs.

Giorgio Behr is married and father of four sons, some of which are already successful in businesses.

Giorgio Behr's assets were estimated in 2012 by the Swiss business magazine Balance to 450 million Swiss francs.

The Suisse Handball Academy SHA, set up by Giorgio Behr and led by Michael Suter, enables young talent to combine sport and training.

Giorgio Behr is president of the Foundation Council of the non-profit foundation NHTLZ.

Giorgio Behr was himself with Gelbschwarz Schaffhausen at the beginning of the 1970s, under coach Eugen Wuger, player in the NLA and NLB.

Giorgio Behr was for about 15 years the president of the Legal Authority for interregional leagues and initiator and co-founder of the Suisse Handball League SHL, the merger of the NLA and NLB teams in men's handball.

Today, Giorgio Behr is president of the jury and of the board of trustees for the Dr Kausch Prize at the University of St Gallen.

Giorgio Behr is a member of the board of trustees and the program commission of Avenir Suisse.

From 2006 until 2023, Giorgio Behr was president of the IVS Chamber of Commerce of the Schaffhausen region; during this time, the activities of the IVS were expanded.