Hermann Hahn Biography
Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by admin in F - J, Hahn Hermann
Hermann Hahn was born in 1961 in Kiev, in professor's family. His father - a great scholar, a renowned expert in the field of metallurgy. Hermann Hahn graduated from the School in 1978. He studied at the school is bad because a lot of time devoted to sport: boxing seriously engaged. So after school went nowhere, and went to work as apprentice fitter at the Kiev Pilot Plant optional equipment, where a short time became a fitter 2-th position. I worked at the factory a year and realized that her hands do not want to work, wants to head. Entered into an industrial-Pedagogical College, graduating in 1982 with honors. Kakraz while acting honors for such a program in higher education - to take harmful specialty without examination, with only one interview. And Hermann Hahn, therefore, decided to go his father's footsteps and made a good choice, entered the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISA), the Faculty of casting of ferrous metals. Here he met with Mikhail Fridman and Alexei Kuzmichev - future partners in the Alfa Group.
Although it is worth noting that during his studies he and Friedman were not friendly, visually familiar, but no more. Michael Maratovich a year before Hermann Hahn graduated MISA.
In the late 80's began the era of the cooperative, and in 1988, Hermann Hahn went to work at one of the cooperative - it was called "Space", had rented space in TsUM and engaged in wholesale of all kinds of garments, shoes and jewelry. His first business partner was Alexander B. Furman. He supplied the co-operative "Cosmos" garments, which produced several Moscow sewing cooperatives. Around the same time, Hermann Hahn has worked more in co-op "Search." And in 1989, Hermann Hahn and Furman decided to create their own cooperative Alexandrina, in which Furman was engaged in tailoring, and Hermann Hahn - supply and sale, formally taking up the post of deputy chairman of the cooperative.
Soon, however, for family reasons Furman decided to sell his business, and Hermann Hahn, one also did not want to continue - and they sold the company for some token money. After that, Hermann Hahn was in search, future plans were uncertain. Later in an interview on the future co-owner of TNK-BP admitted that during this period even thought about emigration. And then he met Friedman.
That was in March 1989. Met by chance on Nogin Square, near the Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy. Friedman, where issues are solved and Hermann Hahn just walking. They remembered each other, to tell who was doing after the institute. In Friedman's already at that time was the JV "Alfa-Eko, it was engaged in the sale of the entire row. Were some thoughts in the sewing business, and Hermann Hahn had promised to help.
Since that time they began to communicate closely. A flowering of the so-called romance of capitalism, the boys were young, almost all unmarried, activity. Then began to form a formidable team of the future "Alpha" - Andrew Shelukhin, Michael Bezelyansky, Alexei Kuz'michev ... Together spent a lot of time, almost without making distinctions between work and leisure.
From 1990 to 1992 Hermann Hahn was the head of wholesale trade, then the head of the department of export company Alfa-Eco. Partnership for young entrepreneurs started with the carpet subjects. Business was as follows: their peers - natives of Dagestan, Azerbaijan, Armenia - traveled to the regions and buying carpets. A Hermann Hahn, Friedman and Co. handed over the carpets in art galleries. In summer, carpets demand was less, but Hermann Hahn has already mastered the skills of wholesale trade and technology exports, implemented them, and during the first six or seven years, a carpet business was very important activity of the "Alpha". However, there was also a lot of other things - "Alpha" has become a major trading company. Merchants were selling perfume, Czech lamps. There was also a big block imports - agricultural products, sugar on the Cuban contracts, liquors, tea.
Oil
Once partners have heard from friends that there is a kind of business, as oil refining at the refinery. Kuz'michev made a few superficial, but, as it seemed, considerable research on the commodity sectors. Alpha sizing up the coal, oil, metallurgical directions and began moving in all directions. That Khan has since 1992 been responsible for oil program "Alpha", which provided three-quarters of the current capital group. Then at some point, partners decided that Khan will lead the direction of raw material, and he completed all his business affairs, gave much of Michael Bezelyanskomu while he was concentrating on raw materials, leading in 1995, the commodity department of Alfa-Eco. With metallurgy soon as something went wrong, because in this niche have already attended the big players, although later in an Alfa, a number of projects with Achinsk Alumina Refinery and Zapsib. There were also small amounts of trade in the coal market. But in the oil sector were more fortunate - "Alpha" was an instant supply oil to the Ukhta refinery in the Komi Republic and Lisichanskiy refinery in Ukraine. After some time already processed up to 1 million tons of oil in several Russian oil refineries.
In 1996, Hermann Hahn was president of the company Alfa-Eco. After initial successes in the field of oil refining, "Alfa-Eco" also joined in the export of oil. At first "black gold" sold mainly to their former compatriots who have already managed to navigate, how to communicate with large trading companies. The first buyer was the company Galaxy, its owner was widely known in the recent past, Leonid Minin, sufficiently tightly controlled the Odessa handling. To sell it, oil it was convenient, because the way the "Alpha" en masse solved many problems associated with the approach of the courts, customs, etc. However, after some time in the "Alpha" decided that the chain of intermediaries need to be shortened, and the company itself received special exporter status.
Initially, the "Alpha" role was as well: all that concerns the delivery of raw materials to Russia's borders - those involved in the Khan, and the goods sold abroad already Kuz'michev. When it's time to establish order in the export of oil company TNK, the partners abandoned the exclusive services of Alfa-Eco "related to exports. Just moved them to the general competitive regime within the framework of tenders.
Private
With his wife Hermann Hahn met the plane in 1991, when the "Alpha" was flying to Israel flight Transaero. One of the flight attendants and two years later became his wife. It is under the age of Hermann Hahn ten years. Today Hermann Hahn and his wife brought up two daughters: one born in 1995, another 2001-th.
