Peter Löw

Peter Werner Maria Löw (born 21 October 1960) is a German lawyer and entrepreneur.

Life

Peter Löw was born in 1960 in Ludwigshafen, Germany.[1] In 1987, he started his doctoral studies in history at the University of Münster under the supervision of military historian Werner Hahlweg. After Hahlweg died, Löw found a new supervisor in Eckardt Opitz of Helmut Schmidt University, and in 1989 obtained a doctorate (Dr. phil.) for a dissertation on the Prussian army.[2]

In 1991, he enrolled at Insead, where he received an MBA. In 1992, he submitted a dissertation on municipal law in Nazi Germany under the supervision of Franz-Ludwig Knemeyer at the University of Würzburg for which he received a legal doctorate (Dr. iur. utr.).[3]

In 2012, Löw became a member of the senate of the college of philosophy and theology of the Philosophical-Theological University Heiligenkreuz. He became an honorary professor for philosophy of economics in 2013.[4]

Peter Löw is a reserve officer in the Bundeswehr. In 2014, he survived an airplane crash in Florida. He lives in Munich and at Hofhegnenberg Castle.[5]

Peter Löw was listed as one of the 500 richest Germans (ranked at no. 320) according to German Manager Magazin in 2020.[6]

Löw is married and is a father of seven children.[1][7]

Career

Peter Löw worked as a consultant for McKinsey from 1991 and 1992.[8]

Löw claims to have acquired majority stakes or significant shares in more than 300 businesses since 1992.

Between 2002 and 2007, Löw co-founded and lead Arques Industries together with Dirk Markus.[9] In 2005, Arques acquired a number of printing businesses.

In 2007, Löw founded a gold trading company, 24k Trading Partners, but ended the business a year later.[10][11]

In 2008, Löw incorporated an investment company, bluO, which he managed until 2013.

Löw made the headlines with the bankruptcy of German news agency dapd.[12][13][14][11][15]

In 2013 Löw founded LIVIA Group as a family office.[16] Löw held the chemical manufacturer Alzchem[17] until it became public in 2017.[18]

Honours

• Two Sicilian Royal Family: Knight Grand Officer of Merit, Special Class of the Order of Saint George[19]

Publications

• Der preussische Unteroffizier im stehenden Heer des Absolutismus bis 1806. Am Beispiel der Infanteriekompanie. Hartung-Gorre, Constance 1989, ISBN 3-89191-317-6.
• Formularsammlung für die Berliner Rechtspraxis.. Löw and Vorderwülbecke, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-928017-75-6.[20]
• Kommunalgesetzgebung im NS-Staat: am Beispiel der Deutschen Gemeindeordnung 1935. Löw and Vorderwülbecke, Baden-Baden 1992, ISBN 3-928017-64-0.[21]
• Electio debet eating in libertate eligentium. Peter Loew. Baden-Baden: Löw & Vorderwülbecke 1992, ISBN 3-928017-61-6.[22]
• Theologie und Wirtschaft. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2017,ISBN 978-3-7616-3276-5.[23]
• Väter in den Augen ihrer Söhne: Lebensbilder der Familienväter Löw über vier Generationen 1870 bis 2016. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7616-3277-2.[24]
• Flusenflug. Bekenntnisse eines Firmenjägers. Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-95510-233-3[25]
• Fluffs. Confessions of a corporate raider. Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2022, ISBN 978-3-95510-298-2[26]
• Jungenhaft. Von einem, der auszog ... . Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-95510-299-9[27]
• Boyish. The Tale of a Young Man Who Set Out to Learn the Meaning of Fear. Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2022, ISBN 978-3-95510-299-9[28]