1. Hans-Olaf Henkel was formerly a manager at IBM, president of the Federation of German Industries and president of the Leibniz Association Archived 3 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine.
11 Facts About Hans-Olaf Henkel
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Hans-Olaf Henkel is an independent member of the European Conservatives and Reformists.
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Hans-Olaf Henkel studied at the Akademie fur Gemeinwirtschaft, which merged as Universitat fur Wirtschaft und Politik with Hamburg University in 2005.
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Hans-Olaf Henkel was president of the Leibniz Association from 2001 to 2005.
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Until 2013 Hans-Olaf Henkel was a member of the supervisory board of Bayer AG, Continental AG, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, Ringier AG and other companies.
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Hans-Olaf Henkel resigned from these positions to join the Alternative for Germany in 2014, which he left again in 2015.
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In November 2010, Hans-Olaf Henkel suggested in an article in the German magazine FOCUS to split the Eurozone into two currencies, a northern and a southern one, which received a lot of attention.
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Hans-Olaf Henkel received an Honorary Doctor's degree from the Technical University of Dresden.
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Hans-Olaf Henkel has been a member of the Amnesty International human rights organization since 1996, and he has been donating to the organization all the income raised from the publication of his books for many years.
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In Cuba, Hans-Olaf Henkel championed the improvement of the human rights situation and in particular the abolition of the death penalty.
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Hans-Olaf Henkel campaigned for the persecuted Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and initiated in 2011 the "Berliner Appell", which required the release of the artist then detained at an unknown location.