Ernst von Freyberg
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Ernst Conrad Rudolf Freiherr von Freyberg-Eisenberg (born 26 October 1958 in
Geneva , neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier , website = https://www.geneve.ch/ Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevr ...
) is a German manager and was President of the
Istituto per le Opere di Religione The Institute for the Works of Religion ( it, Istituto per le Opere di Religione; la, Institutum pro Operibus Religionis; abbreviated IOR), commonly known as the Vatican Bank, is a financial institution situated inside Vatican City and run by a ...
between February 2013 and July 2014IOR Director and Deputy Director resign. Communique' of the Press Office of the Holy See
Vatican Radio, 01 July 2013


Family

Freyberg is the eldest of three sons of Ulrich von Freyberg-Eisenberg and Brita Gertrud Blohm. He is married and a member of the
Sovereign Military Order of Malta The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta ( it, Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme, di Rodi e di Malta; ...
.


Early life

He studied law at the universities of
Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
and
Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...
from 1978 to 1985 and at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer in 1986/87. He was admitted to the bar in Ulm in 1988.


Career


Founding of Finance House von Freyberg

From 1988 to 1991, Freyberg worked as an analyst for ''TCR Europe Limited'' and ''Three Cities Research, Inc''. In 1991, he co-founded ''finance house von Freyberg''. In 1998, ''Close Brothers Corporate Finance Ltd'', the corporate finance arm of ''Close Brothers'', replaced finance hous
''von Mellenthin''
with finance house von Freyberg as its German associate, purchasing 51%. In 2005, ''Close Brothers Corporate Finance'' began consolidating its European network and finance house Freyberg was renamed ''Freyberg Close Brothers''. In 2010, ''Close Brothers Corporate Finance'' became loss-making and
Close Brothers Group Close Brothers Group plc is a UK merchant banking group, providing lending, deposit taking, wealth management and securities trading. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History Close ...
put it up for sale. It was purchased by the Japanese investment bank ''Daiwa Securities SMBC'' and is now calle
''Daiwa Corporate Advisory GmbH''
In 2012, Ernst von Freyberg was replaced as CEO by Stefan Jaecker.


Chairmanship and supervisory board activities

Since 2012, he has been chairman of the
supervisory board In corporate governance, a governance board also known as council of delegates are chosen by the stockholders of a company to promote their interests through the governance of the company and to hire and fire the board of directors. In civil s ...
of Blohm + Voss, and was/is member of other supervisory and advisory boards, e.g. o
''Malteser Deutschland GmbH''
the ''Flossbach von Storch AG'' trust administration and the IT service provider ''Magirus AG''.


Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR)

Ernst von Freyberg was appointed President of the Board of Superintendence of th
Istituto per le Opere di Religione
(IOR) by the Commission of Cardinals of the IOR on 15 February 2013 replacing Ettore Gotti Tedeschi. Freyberg was named ad interim Director of the IOR on 1 July 2013, following the resignations of Director Paolo Cipriani and Deputy Director Massimo Tulli On 30 November 2013, Rolando Marranci was appointed new General Director. During his tenure at the IOR, von Freyberg has identified two particular tasks as critically important. Firstly, he wants to open up the Institute and make it more transparent. Secondly, he will investigate and, where necessary, eliminate any cases of money laundering and tax evasion. Von Freyberg has also espoused a “zero tolerance” approach when it comes to suspicious transactions. In July 2014 it was announced that Freyberg had been replaced by Jean-Baptiste de Franssu.


Non-occupational activities

Ernst von Freyberg is Knight of th
Sovereign Military Order of Malta
His voluntary work at the Order of Malta particularly focuses on accompanying pilgrimages to Lourdes and acting as honorary treasurer for the order's German association. In 2009, he also founded the ''Freyberg Stiftung''. The foundation’s main goals lie in supporting teenagers through education.Vatican Information Service

15 February 2013


References

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