A family

German Gref has a second marriage. His wife Yana Golovina - designer. Their wedding took place in the throne room at Peterhof. From this marriage, a daughter was born in 2006, and in 2008 - a second child.

The mother of Gref's wife, Tatyana Golovina, has been running the Rus sanatorium in Gelendzhik, owned by a state company, since 2008 Transneft... Since 2008, the Rus sanatorium has transferred its accounts to Sberbank.

Gref's son from his first marriage, Oleg, who graduated from Moscow State University in 2004, works as vice president of a consulting company accredited by Sberbank "NEO Center", which was seen in a number of corporate conflicts of Sberbank.

Older brother Evgeny Gref - a businessman in Omsk, co-owner of Technosofia, Siberia-Ceramics, Geomart and Letur shopping centers. In 2008, Sberbank issued a loan in the amount of 500 million rubles.

Elder sister of German Gref Elena Peredriy after graduating from the pedagogical institute, she married Sergei Peredriy and moved to live in Nakhodka. Owns a large block of shares in the bank "Primorye"family owned Sergey Darkin, who has been the Governor of Primorsky Krai since 2001, and since 2012 - Deputy Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation.

Daughter of the sister of German Gref, Olga Tyischenko works as a chief specialist in the HR department of Sberbank. Niece (brother's daughter) Evgenia Gref since 2009 works in the company Krasnov designserving Sberbank. The owner of the company, Boris Krasnov, in 2011 was held in a criminal case - racketeering, a number of those accused in this criminal case were arrested.

Parents: Oscar Gref and Emilia Gref (maiden Koch). The family of G. Gref's father was exiled to Kazakhstan in 1941 from Donbass, the mother's family was expelled from Leningrad. Gref's father was an engineer, developed a power supply system for his village. He died when Herman was only one and a half years old. The children were helped by their grandmother. Mother worked in the village council as an economist, was considered a good specialist and organizer. According to some reports, her father, a professor of philology, came to Russia at the beginning of the century in St. Petersburg to teach Greek philosophy.

Biography

German Gref was born on February 8, 1964 in the village of Panfilovo, Irtysh district, Pavlodar region, Kazakh SSR, into a family of ethnic Germans. He studied at school for three and four, he did not particularly shine with talents.

In 1981-1982 he worked as a legal adviser of the regional agricultural administration of the Irtysh district of the Pavlodar region.

In 1982-1984 he served in the Armed Forces of the USSR, in the special forces units of the internal troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. Having benefits after the army, he entered Omsk State University.

In 1990 - graduated from the law faculty of Omsk State University with a degree in jurisprudence. One of Herman's teachers was Burbulis.

In 1990 he moved to St. Petersburg, where in 1990-1993 he studied at the graduate school of the Faculty of Law Leningrad University, but did not defend his thesis in those years. He defended himself already in 2011 in Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation on the topic: "Development and prospects of structural institutional reforms in the Russian economy." In the 90s, German met with the mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak and Vladimir Putinwho worked in the city hall.

1991: was legal advisor to the Committee for Economic Development and Property Administration Petrodvorets (St. Petersburg).

In 1992, he worked as the head of the Petrodvortsovy District Agency of the Property Management Committee of the Administration of the City of St. Petersburg, the Chairman of the Property Management Committee - the Deputy Head of the Administration of the Petrodvortsovy District of St. Petersburg.

1994 - Deputy Chairman - Director of the Department of Real Estate, First Deputy Chairman of the City Property Management Committee of the Administration (KUGI) of St. Petersburg. Activities in the KUGI (from 1994 to 1997) were harshly criticized by the opposition media. He was accused of the failure of the reform of the housing and communal services in St. Petersburg, a sharp rise in rent and the illegal privatization of historic buildings in the city.

In 1997, he became vice-governor, chairman of the City Property Management Committee of the Administration (KUGI) of St. Petersburg, member of the Board of Directors JSC "Lenenergo".

1998 year. He works as a member of the board of the Ministry of State Property of the Russian Federation, first deputy minister of State Property Russian Federation.

1999 - Member of the Board of the Federal Commission for the Securities Market, Head "Center for Strategic Research"... When the cabinet was being formed, German Gref was invited to the post of Minister of Economic Development, created especially for him.

This ministry arose through the merger of the RF Ministry of Trade and the RF Ministry of Economy. German Gref lobbied for Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization ( WTO). He was a member of the board of directors of many state-owned companies ( "Gazprom", Svyazinvest and etc.).

On February 24, 2004, the Kasyanov government was dismissed, Gref also resigned from the post of minister. As minister, Gref served on the boards of directors and supervisory boards of a number of state-owned companies as a government representative.

On July 3, 2000, he was appointed manager from the Russian Federation in European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

In early March 2004, a government was formed Fradkova, in which German Oskarovich again headed the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation. On May 7, just two months later, this government resigned. Newly elected V. Putin reappointed Mikhail Fradkov as prime minister, and in the second Fradkov government, German Gref kept his portfolio.

Minister of Economy and Trade German Gref was considered one of the brightest representatives liberal wing in the government. He was a supporter of radical market reforms and the departure of the state from the business sphere.

It was to implement these ideas that V. Putin invited him to the government. In the government, however, Gref had to maneuver between various power groups more than other liberals. He was called the most controversial figure in the liberal government.

In the field of economics, among his merits is the creation free economic zones, consistent support for the electricity and tax reform (for example, before leaving the ministerial post, German Gref made a forecast of a target VAT rate of 15% instead of the current 18%).

Gref's opposition is known, who suggested not rushing to tax reform, but ex-Prime Minister Kasyanov pushed Gref to more radicalism.

The conflict of interests sometimes escalated so much that Gref, despite the special trust of the president, repeatedly resigned, but the president refused him.

As a minister, Gref was actively involved in promoting Sochi as a venue for the 2014 Olympics. Under him, the Ministry of Economic Development oversaw the federal target program "Development of the city of Sochi as a mountain and climatic resort until 2014", which was later transferred to the Ministry of Regional Development.

On September 12, 2007, Prime Minister Fradkov asked Vladimir Putin to resign the government. The President accepted the resignation of the government and Gref resigned along with the government.

From October 2007 to the present day German Gref - Chairman of the Management Board Sberbank of Russia... Former head of the bank Andrey Kazmin was transferred to work in Russian Post, which caused discontent among the bank's leading managers who voted against Gref.

The expensive rebranding of Sberbank, carried out by Gref during the economic crisis, caused a wave of outrage in the media. In addition, being a supporter of the idea of \u200b\u200bprivatizing state-owned banks, G. Gref is in favor of reducing the share Central Bank in the authorized capital of the bank up to 50% + 1 share from the current 57.6%. However, while the Russian government is in no hurry to privatize Sberbank.

In October 2011, German Gref was noted by Forbes magazine as one of the nine most unusual Russian businessmen - madmen, eccentrics and eccentrics.

2014: at a meeting in Public Chamber on energy issues, Gref said: " The sanctions added negativity, but let's not blame everything on sanctions. We have a bunch of our own problems, we would have had either zero or negative growth next year without any sanctions. Therefore, the question is in us, not in sanctions".

German Gref denied information that appeared on the Internet about speculations allegedly carried out by his bank in the foreign exchange market. He assured that twice a day he sends to the Central Bank a full detailed report on its operations in the international interbank Forex market, where large banks buy currency for their needs.

Thus, he came into conflict with the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaevwho stated: " All participants in the foreign exchange market speculate. One way or another, they open foreign exchange positions in order to make money. I guess it's called speculation".

On August 10, 2015, the Government office forwarded the deputy's request Vyacheslav Tetyokin () in Ministry of Finance of Russia.

Earlier, on August 4, the deputy sent a letter to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev in connection with the refusal of the head of the Russian Sberbank German Gref to recognize Crimea part of Russia.

"According to media reports, the head of the Russian Sberbank German Gref in an interview with the German radio station WDR 5 said that the department he heads did not plan and does not plan to enter the Crimea peninsula while it is part of the Russian Federation. In particular, to the host's question why there are no representative offices of the Russian Sberbank in Crimea, Mr. Gref replied: “Because not because Crimea is the territory of Ukraine, from the point of view of the international financial sector, and we adhere to this position. Sberbank Crimea is not Russia", - wrote Tetekin.

German Gref speaks Russian and German equally well, loves Goethe and German Expressionists.

Income

In May-June 2010 it became known that Gref became the owner of 0.0007% of ordinary shares OJSC "Sberbank of Russia", while his share in the authorized capital of the bank was 0.0006%. Earlier, G. Gref did not own the bank's shares. In October 2011, he increased his share of ordinary shares to 0.003%, and his participation in the authorized capital of the bank - to 0.0031%.

In 2013, he entered the top 5 of the Forbes list (5th place) of the most expensive managers in Russia. His income over the past year amounted to $ 15 million. The share of Sberbank of Russia shares owned by G.O. Gref: 0.003096% (the package price is $ 2.19 million).

Scandals, rumors

While still the head of the State Property of St. Petersburg, German Oskarovich was directly involved in four criminal cases. Moreover, all these cases were associated with amounts of millions of dollars: In one case, Gref was suspected of illegal privatization of the palace prince Gorchakov, in the materials of another - they were accused of taking a bribe, but the criminal case was dropped, since the only witness was killed. The third criminal case was connected with Gref's interference in the activities of the joint-stock company, and, finally, the fourth - with the "black" redistribution in the real estate market of St. Petersburg.

The media wrote a lot about a strange story: a week before the resignation of the Fradkov government, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, still headed by Gref, invested in a project for the production of integrated circuits at one of the factories near Moscow. The project itself is ordinary, but the amount is striking - one billion euros, and the fact that the project was approved in just a week.

According to the assumption of a number of media outlets, German Gref is associated with "close business relations" with the recipients of the money, so the billion euros was considered a "severance pay" for the minister.

Many scandals have already arisen when Gref was a banker. Thus, the electronic system of Sberbank, the most expensive and largest in Russia, installed last year, has fallen several times. And the latest crash coincided with the launch of new and highly advertised software. The reason was the ultra-expensive, and at the same time, incompatible product from different manufacturers.

In 2008-2009 entrepreneur Vachevsky received a number of loans from Sberbank totaling over RUB 700 million. The money was not returned in time and the accounts payable were recognized as a "problem asset". The relevant department of the Central Russian Bank of Sberbank was instructed to solve the problem.

In the summer of 2012, an intermediary came to the Vachevskys - Denis Vasekha, who said that he had serious connections with Sberbank and offered him to "settle" the debt for 100 million rubles. Vachevskikh for appearance agreed, and he turned to FSB with a statement of extortion. Further conversations with Vasekha and Sberbank employees were under the control of operatives and were recorded. Upon receiving a copy of the payment order for the transfer of the first tranche of 60 million rubles, the extortionist was arrested right at the head office of Sberbank on Vavilov Street in Moscow. Later, they seized his accomplices - bank managers.

Formally, Sberbank took a neutral position in the case of the detention of its managers. But, according to some reports, he provided them with tacit support. At the end of last year, the head of Sberbank, German Gref, appealed to the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Moscow police with a statement to initiate a criminal case against Konstantin Vachevskikh for embezzling 700 million rubles, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs refused to initiate a case. As a result, the management of Sberbank was forced to admit the fact of causing harm to the credit institution from the actions of their own regional managers.

According to experts, the problems of Sberbank of Russia are caused not so much by low-quality software, or by fraudsters in regional offices, as by the complete incompetence of the top management.

As you know, German Gref, not an economist by education and before his appointment, did not work in banking structures for a single day, but he changed all top managers in the bank. Instead of them, business partners, or simply Gref's relatives, were appointed to responsible positions in the bank or in structures affiliated with it.

All close relatives of Herman Oskarovich are very well arranged: his wife, Yana Golovina, is doing a joint business with her ex-wife and top manager of the corporation AFK "Sistema"... His own sister is a business partner of the ex-governor of Primorsky Krai Sergey Darkin... Her husband was the vice-governor of the Primorsky Territory, but resigned in 2006 in connection with the scandal related to checks of housing finance. It turned out that utility payments received from the population of the region were transferred to the accounts of the governor's wife Larisa Belobrova, vice governor Sergey Peredriya and his wife Elena Peredriy.

Gref's older brother is one of the largest retailers in Omsk, which has loans from Sberbank for any amount and on the most favorable terms. The niece organizes corporate parties at exorbitant prices for bank employees, and even the mother-in-law at one time entered into a working conflict with the daughter of the Saratov governor Pavel Ipatov.

Herman Gref's son Oleg is a co-owner of the NEO Center consulting company, which is an appraiser partner in Sberbank. A number of high-profile scandals are associated with this company, first of all, with the deliberate underestimation of the value of the pledged assets by NEO Center and their sale for a pittance in favor of the Gref family. All these schemes, unlike ATM software, work flawlessly.

Gref is often accused of non-traditional sexual orientation.

"The head of Sberbank of Russia Gref is a face of homosexual orientation", - said the leader of Gay Pride about him Nikolay Alekseev.

In January 2016, a whole social and political campaign was launched against German Gref.

Speaking at the Gaidar Forum, Gref sharply criticized the domestic economy and called Russia a "technically enslaved country" and a "downshifter country." Gref's statement immediately caused a wide response.

A number of politicians accused Gref of Russophobia and refusal to admit his own mistakes in the past. The Other Russia called Gref a "liberal dwarf" and demanded that he be dismissed.

Member of the Federation Council Igor Morozov generally called the head of Sberbank German Gref "a goner."

Today, the name of German Gref is associated with the work of the largest bank in Russia and the world market - the majority of ordinary people. Meanwhile, German Gref became the head of Sberbank relatively recently, namely, in 2007. Until that moment, German Oskarovich worked in the administrative bodies of St. Petersburg and the Government.

The main milestones of the biography

Gref German Oskarovich comes from a family of ethnic Germans, who were exiled from Donbass back in 1941 to remote villages of the Kazakh SSR. German Oskarovich was born in February 1964 in the small village of Panfilovo, Pavlodar region, Irtysh district, where he graduated from school and began working as a legal adviser in the regional agricultural administration.

Herman was raised by his mother, Maria Filippovna, who was then an economist, and his grandmother. In addition to Herman, the family had two more children: brother Eugene and sister Elena, who are now large businessmen. Herman's father was an electrical engineer and died when the boy was barely one and a half years old.

German Gref's family lived in a small house near the pier. Herman himself was described as a very modest, always polite and neat boy who never showed his emotions. Thanks to his background and upbringing, German Gref speaks and reads fluently in German, Russian and English.

In the period from 1982 to 1984 he served in the ranks of the Soviet army.

In 1990, German Gref received a degree in Jurisprudence from Omsk State University, where he studied at the Faculty of Law. At Omsk University, he continued his professional career as a teacher.

From 1990 to 1993 he was a graduate student of the Leningrad University Faculty of Law and worked under the supervision of Anatoly Sobchak, to whom he came on the recommendation of S.N. Baburin, who was at that time the dean of the law faculty of the University of Omsk. But German Oskarovich did not defend his thesis. Her turn came later in another area - in 2011 she defended her dissertation at the Russian Academy of National Economy under the President of the Russian Federation. in his dissertation work, German Gref considered the prospects for the development of institutional reforms in the Russian economy.

Administrative and state activities

Further professional activities of German Oskarovich are associated with the northern capital of Russia - with the city of St. Petersburg:

• in 1991 he worked as a legal adviser to the Economic Development Committee of Petrodvorets;
• in 1992, he already holds the position of head of the Petrodvorets Agency of the Property Committee of the St. Petersburg Administration;
• in 1994 he held the post of Deputy Chairman - Director of the Department for Real Estate, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee for the Management of City Property of St. Petersburg (KUGI);
• in 1997, he was appointed vice-governor and Chairman of the KUGI of St. Petersburg, at the same time being a member of the Board of Directors of Lenenergo;
• in 1998 he became a member of the Board of Directors of two companies at once: the Seaport of St. Petersburg and St. Petersburg-5th channel.

During his work in the administration of St. Petersburg, German Oskarovich gets acquainted with politicians known today - and Dmitry Kozak.

Activities in the Government of the Russian Federation

German Oskarovich came to the Government of the Russian Federation in 1998, joining the ranks of the collegium of the Ministry of State Property of the Russian Federation, subsequently taking the post of Deputy Minister of this ministry.

In 1999, Gref joined the board of the Federal Commission for the Securities Market, becoming the head of the Center for Strategic Research.

After the victory of V.V. Putin in the 2006 elections, after the appointment of Mikhail Kasyanov as prime minister, a special post of Minister of Economic Development was established for German Gref in the Government of the Russian Federation, which he formed, for which it was merged into one two ministries - trade and economy. Simultaneously with this position, Gref was a member of the Boards of Directors of large Russian companies, such as Gazprom and Svyazinvest, Yandex, as well as a large US banking holding Morgan Stanley.

In this position, German Oskarovich defended the position of Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization. With the resignation of the Kasyanov Government in 2004, German Gref will also leave his post.

In the newly formed Government under the leadership of Fradkov, Gref again headed the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, but, which had existed for only 2 months, after the presidential elections, resigned. In fact, the situation repeated itself: Putin won the elections, Fradkov re-formed the Government, in which Gref again received his post as Minister of Economic Development.

In 2007, the Fradkov government asked for resignation, receiving praise and gratitude from the President for the results and achievements in work.

Sberbank management

In 2007, Herman Oskarovich became the head of the oldest and largest - Sberbank, which he manages to the present. It should be noted that the head of Sberbank, German Gref, was not particularly happy with the bulk of the top managers of the credit and financial organization. Leading top managers of Sberbank were against the transfer of his predecessor, Andrey Kazmin, to the post of head of the Russian Post. Despite this, today Gref calls Sberbank his fiefdom. During the period of leadership of Sberbank, German Oskarovich brought Sberbank of Russia to a new technical and technological level, significantly expanded the client base, as well as the category of clients who switched to remote service, including the category of VIP clients, for whom a new service block was created - Sberbank-Premier and online - private banking service. Sberbank's positions have also been strengthened at the international level. It should also be noted that the manager cares about his subordinates and employees, for whom excellent conditions for recreation and sports have been created, as well as the annual competition called "Sberbankiada", which allows you to select the best employees for their bonuses for work.

Family relationships

German Gref has an older brother, Evgeny, who is today one of the largest businessmen in Omsk, as well as a sister, Elena, who is doing business in the city of Nakhodka. Even as the Minister of Economy, Gref visited his native village several times, providing assistance, first of all, to his native school, presenting computers and music centers as gifts.

Herman Oskarovich started his family right after leaving school, having married the most beautiful girl in the class - Lena Velikanova, in marriage with whom he had a son, Oleg. The marriage with Elena Velikanova turned out to be fragile and short-lived. In 2004, German Gref again married with designer Yana Golovnaya, now Gref, with whom two daughters were born. In terms of income, Gref ranks 5th in Forbes, being one of the richest people. And the Gref family is in the top 100 richest families in Russia.

Gref, German

President and Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

President and Chairman of the Management Board of Sberbank of Russia since November 2007. Previously - Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation (2000-2007), First Deputy Minister of State Property of the Russian Federation (1998-2000), Vice Governor - Chairman of the City Property Management Committee of the St. Petersburg Administration (1997-1998), Deputy Chairman - Director Department of Real Estate, First Deputy Chairman of the City Property Management Committee of the St. Petersburg Administration (1994-1997). Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic Research, member of the Board of Directors of NK OJSC Lukoil.

German Oskarovich Gref was born on February 8, 1964 in the village of Panfilovo, Pavlodar region of the Kazakh SSR, where his parents, ethnic Germans, were exiled from Donbass in 1941. According to legend, Gref's ancestors settled in Russia less than a hundred years ago: in 1913, his grandfather came to St. Petersburg to teach Greek philosophy. According to other sources, his German ancestors moved to Russia and settled in St. Petersburg during the time of Peter the Great. The Gref family spoke both in Russian and in German. According to media reports, later Gref took part in the return of exiled Germans to Russia - with his assistance, an entire German village of Strelna was built near St. Petersburg (a number of publications pointed to numerous violations of the law in connection with the implementation of this project).

After graduation, Gref entered the Faculty of International Economic Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but after the first year he was expelled from the university. According to other sources, after school, Gref and his first wife Elena Velikanova entered Omsk State University, but failed in the exams. According to the official biography, in 1981-1982 Gref worked as a legal adviser for the regional agricultural administration of the Irtysh district of the Pavlodar region,,.

From 1982 to 1984, Gref served in the Armed Forces, in the special forces units of the Interior Ministry troops,,,, stationed in the city of Chapayevsk, Kuibyshevsk (now Samara) region (military unit 3434). In 2005, the media noted that among the members of the Russian government, Gref was almost the only one who had completed military service. Economist Mikhail Delyagin told reporters of the Sobesednik newspaper: "They say about Gref's strong-willed qualities in the White House: well, what do you want - the person went through the prison special forces." The publication indicated that the employees of the Ministry of Defense unofficially called Gref's military specialty - a sniper. Referring to the words of veterans of the internal troops, "Interlocutor" pointed out that in 1982-1984 service in these troops meant escorting prisoners, searching for fugitives, suppressing prison riots. In November 2005, the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" published information that Gref, together with the commander-in-chief of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Colonel-General Nikolai Rogozhkin, visited the "semi-secret" special forces center for training the personnel of internal troops for actions in the edge.

According to a number of media reports, Gref, having completed military service without exams, was enrolled in the workers' faculty of Omsk State University. In 1984, Gref entered the Faculty of Law, where he became a Komsomol organizer and head of the student operative detachment (other publications wrote that from 1984 to 1985 he studied at the preparatory department of the university). The dean of the law faculty of Omsk State University in those years was Sergey Baburin (in the future - Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation). The media also published information about Gref's classmates: in particular, it was alleged that the chairman of the property management committee of St. Petersburg, Igor Metelsky, was one of Gref's student friends.

In 1990, Gref graduated from the university, according to a number of media outlets, with honors, receiving a diploma in jurisprudence, after which he taught for some time at OmSU. In the same 1990, Gref moved to Leningrad, where, according to the "Interlocutor", on the recommendation of Baburin he entered graduate school. In 1993 (according to other sources - in 1994), he completed his postgraduate studies at the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University,,. Other information was also published: a number of teachers claimed that Gref did not study in graduate school, while others reported that he studied, but did not defend his thesis. Viktoria Nasledova, head of the press service of the law faculty of St.

According to a number of media reports, in 1990 Gref met the future President of Russia Vladimir Putin - at the University of Leningrad, Putin, who returned from a business trip to Germany, worked as Sobchak's deputy, for whom Gref was writing his dissertation. Most publications noted that in 1990 Putin was indeed an adviser to Sobchak, but as chairman of the Leningrad City Council, at the university, Sobchak worked at the Department of Civil Law before his election to the Leningrad City Council (Putin supervised the university through the KGB). According to other sources, Gref met Putin in 1991-1992, when he already held a post in the administration of the Petrodvorets district of St. Petersburg. A number of media outlets, citing some St. Petersburg officials, reported that later, in 1996, Gref was one of the few who continued to communicate with Putin and even helped him after he lost his post as vice-mayor of St. Petersburg.

From 1991 to 1992, Gref was a legal advisor to the Committee for Economic Development and Property of the Administration of the Petrodvorets District of St. Petersburg, and from March 1992 to October 1994 he headed the Committee for Property Management of the same district,. The media reported that Sobchak introduced him to the Peterhof administration. It was also indicated that the head of the administration of the Petrodvorets district at that time was Alexei Ignatenko (later he worked as the head of the city's KUGI department and was a subordinate of Gref).

In October 1994, Gref was appointed Director of the Real Estate Department of the Committee for State Property Management (KUGI) of St. Petersburg, Deputy Chairman of the Committee,,. Within the walls of the St. Petersburg administration, German Gref met Alexei Kudrin, Dmitry Kozak, Dmitry Medvedev, who later took key positions in the country's leadership. According to a number of media reports, in February 1997, Gref became one of the "ideologists" of the housing and communal reform in St. Petersburg. By the decision of the Governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Yakovlev, it was the KUGI that was appointed the department responsible for the reform, during which there was a twofold increase in the rent in the absence of any improvement in service. A number of publications indicated that Gref had failed in reforming the St. Petersburg housing and communal services.

In July 1997, Gref became the first deputy chairman of the KUGI. On August 18, 1997, he was appointed acting chairman of the committee (on that day, the chairman of the KUGI, Mikhail Manevich, was killed). Subsequently, a number of media outlets, without making a connection between Gref and this crime, wrote that the reasons for Manevich's "sudden death" should be sought "in the mechanisms of St. Petersburg privatization." On September 2, 1997, Gref became vice-governor - chairman of the KUGI of St. Petersburg. This post was offered to him by the governor Yakovlev,,. At the first briefing as the head of the St. Petersburg KUGI, Gref said that he considers himself "a man of Yakovlev, Chubais and Nemtsov at the same time." In 2001, Literaturnaya Gazeta wrote that Gref is characterized by "political universality", which "can be very useful in terms of career growth" (as an example, the publication cited the fact that, despite his closeness with the first St. Petersburg mayor, Sobchak, Gref worked well with the new governor Yakovlev). In 2005, the media, calling Gref "the champion of rumors of resignation," wrote that Gref retained his high posts as deputy minister and minister of economy at a time when five prime ministers were replaced in the government.

The media wrote that during his leadership of the KUGI, Gref was accused of abuse of office, in particular, of illegal transfer of the Senny market for a bribe (the case was closed after the murder of the only witness), illegal privatization of Gorchakov's palace (the case was also closed), , however, these publications had no consequences. In 2000, the French newspaper Le Monde published information that from 1997 to 2000 Gref, along with Putin, were consultants and members of the advisory board of the German real estate company SPAG (St. Petersburg Immobilien und Beteiligungs AG), created on the initiative of the Northern capital Cities. The mayor's office, according to the newspaper, was the co-owner of this enterprise. On May 13, 2000, the head of SPAG, lawyer and brother of Liechtenstein's Minister of Economy, Rudolf Ritter, was arrested in Vaduz on suspicion of money laundering and links with organized crime. In a report by the German secret service BND, it was alleged that Russian criminals were transferring funds through the Romanian bank IRB in order to acquire real estate in Russia. This, they said, made a profit for Ritter, the main shareholder of SPAG (through which the sale of real estate was carried out). The Russian presidential administration denied any connection between Putin and SPAG. SPAG director Markus Rese, in turn, did not deny the fact of Gref and Putin's work for the company, but asserted that it was about "an unpaid position, a kind of patronage."

In September 1997, Gref became a member of the board of directors of JSC "Lenenergo". In January 1998, he was appointed to the board of the RF Ministry of State Property. In April 1998, Gref became a member of the board of directors of JSC "Sea Port of St. Petersburg", in June of the same year - a member of the board of directors of JSC "Petersburg - Channel 5".

On August 12, 1998, Gref was appointed First Deputy Minister of State Property of the Russian Federation. According to a number of media reports, Gref came to Moscow on the recommendation of Anatoly Chubais. By the decrees of the Russian government dated December 30, 1998 and January 21, 1999, Gref was appointed to the Coordination Council for Economic Issues of Russia's Regional Policy and the board of representatives of the Russian Federation at OJSC Svyazinvest. On April 28, 1999, he was appointed head of the government commission for reviewing the activities of the Russian Federal Service for Insolvency and Financial Recovery (FSDN). At the same time, he became a member of the board of directors of Svyazinvest JSC.

On May 10, 1999, in accordance with the order of the Russian government, Gref became a member of the collegium of state representatives in the Russian State Insurance Company (Rosgosstrakh). On June 4 of the same year, he became a member of the board of the Federal Commission for the Securities Market (FCSM), in which he worked until September 2000. On June 26, 1999, Gref was elected to the board of directors of Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines, and on August 26, as a government representative, he was included in the board of directors of Gazprom. In September 1999, Gref became a member of the collegium of state representatives in OAO AK Transneft. In the same year, Gref was elected chairman of the board of directors of Sheremetyevo International Airport.

In December 1999, Gref was elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Center for Strategic Research Foundation. According to Delyagin's recollections, Gref was the only one who agreed to lead him - "the place is not bread, they do not give bribes there". A number of media outlets wrote that the country's development program for the coming years, which was prepared by the TsSR headed by Gref, "outlined the main vector of the country's economic development - in the direction of its further liberalization." Other publications, on the contrary, noted that everyone forgot about the "Gref program" immediately after its adoption. In addition, during the same period, Gref became a member of Putin's campaign headquarters, was among his authorized representatives on financial issues.

In 2001, Gref headed the commission for holding auctions for the sale of industrial quotas for the catch (extraction) of aquatic biological resources, and also became a member of the commission on tariff regulation on federal railway transport. In January 2001, Gref was recommended to the post of chairman of the board of directors of OJSC Project Privatization Company, created by the RFFI and the RF Ministry of Property Relations for the sale of 50 million shares (6.13 percent) of OJSC Lukoil on international stock markets. In April 2001, Gref was appointed an official representative of the government when the chambers of the Federal Assembly were considering the draft Land Code. On April 28, 2001, Gref was appointed the representative of the Russian Federation to vote at the meeting of shareholders in OAO Gazprom and was re-elected to the board of directors of RAO UES of Russia. In May 2001, Gref was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government Commission of the Russian Federation for Coordination of the Activities of Federal Executive Bodies and State Power Bodies of the Subjects of the Russian Federation on the Implementation of Production Sharing Agreements and was re-elected to the Board of Directors of JSC Aeroflot - RMA (since June 2001 - JSC "Aeroflot - Russian Airlines"). In August 2001, he was also re-elected chairman of the board of directors of Sheremetyevo International Airport. In August 2001, Gref became a member of the government commission on structural reform of railway transport.

In January 2002, Gref became Deputy Chairman of the RF Government Commission for Electric Power Industry Reform, and became a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System (FGC UES). In 2002, Gref opposed plans to switch to 100% payment for housing and communal services by the population. He called for "to stop frightening the population with 100% payment", since due to the plight of the majority of citizens, this task is "unnecessary and unrealizable."

On October 21, 2003, Gref was elected chairman of the appraisal committee created in the Gazprom board of directors. In its message, RIA Novosti noted that the committee is in charge of analyzing and preparing proposals to improve the valuation of the property of Gazprom and its subsidiaries, opinions on the advisability of making transactions with property, as well as recommendations on voting of representatives of OJSC in the management bodies of subsidiaries and affiliates. companies. Subsequently, Gref was repeatedly re-elected to this post,,.

On February 24, 2004, when the president dismissed the Kasyanov government, Gref became acting minister of economic development and trade of the Russian Federation: Putin signed a decree "On the government of the Russian Federation", according to which the government of the Russian Federation was instructed to fulfill its duties until the formation of a new cabinet of ministers. On March 9, 2004, Gref was again appointed Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, and Mikhail Fradkov became the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Izvestia wrote that by that time there was already a long-standing and mutual hostility between them. It, according to the publication, originated in 2000, when the Ministry of Trade headed by Fradkov was abolished and transferred to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. During Fradkov's work in the Security Council and the tax police, his relations with the head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade were also rather tense, but without aggravation. The most serious clash between them occurred in the second half of 2003 during one of Gref's visits to Brussels, where Fradkov was Russia's special envoy to the EU. According to eyewitnesses, Gref then sharply reprimanded Fradkov for "poor work with the EU" in front of his subordinates. According to other reports, two high-ranking officials at the Brussels airport began shouting at each other, ignoring the witnesses. In 2005, "Profile" wrote that the ideological incompatibility of Fradkov and Gref (one is a Soviet bureaucrat, the other is a convinced "market man"), aggravated by personal hostility, led to the fact that not a single government meeting was complete without a pick between the prime minister and the minister of economy ... But, according to the publication, over the years the situation has changed, and the working relationship between them has become completely different than at the first stage.

According to media reports, Gref has repeatedly opposed the monopolization of the oil and gas sector of the economy. In an interview with the Kommersant newspaper in January 2005, Gref said that the state should give "any profitable activity to private hands," and itself "should focus its efforts on creating clear rules of the game that are clearly observed by all." He called the direct presence of the state in the oil sector "unjustified." In particular, Gref opposed the nationalization of Yuganskneftegaz, a subsidiary of Yukos Oil Company, but subsequently publicly approved the deal to acquire it. According to media reports, Gref changed his mind because the government decree obliged representatives of the state in joint-stock companies to vote in accordance with the directives and powers of attorney of the Ministry of Property of the Russian Federation.

Gref took part in the fate of the state company OAO NK Rosneft, including in organizing an initial public offering of ordinary shares (IPO) among Russian and international investors in Russia and Great Britain in June 2006. The head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade stressed that more 70 percent of Rosneft shares will remain with the state.

Gref paid great attention to the Russian Regional Aircraft (RRJ) program - a joint project of the Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company, the Ilyushin Aviation Complex and Boeing. The goal of the program was to create an aircraft that would meet the existing and future requirements of the Russian and international markets. During a press conference on November 2, 2005, Gref called this project one of the priorities for Russia and promised that the obligations of the Russian side would be fulfilled on time. According to him, the state should have invested 8.6 billion rubles in the project. It was assumed that by the end of 2007 six aircraft should be produced, from 2008 their serial production should begin.

In November 2005, Gref headed the commission, which was engaged in the formation of a list of projects applying for money from the Investment Fund of the Russian Federation. The list of investment proposals to the government included projects for the construction of a complex of oil refineries in Tatarstan and a project for the development of the Lower Angara region, as well as a number of projects for the development of the country's transport infrastructure: the construction of the Western High-Speed \u200b\u200bDiameter in St. Petersburg, a section of the Moscow - St. Petersburg toll highway, a new exit Minsk highway on the Moscow Ring Road and the railway to mineral deposits in the Chita region, as well as the laying of the Orlovsky tunnel under the Neva. It was planned to allocate 164 billion rubles for the implementation of these projects.

On July 27, 2006, Gref made a statement on the transfer of powers to the Federal Tax Service (FTS) to maintain a unified state automated information system for accounting for alcoholic beverages. He made this statement after a group of members of the Public Chamber addressed an open letter to Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. In the letter, representatives of the Public Chamber asked the prime minister to deal with violations of the schedule of production and supply of alcoholic beverages that arose due to a malfunction in the unified state automated information system (EGAIS), which was developed and maintained by the FSUE Atlas under the FSB of Russia.

Gref was a supporter of Russia's early accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and repeatedly stated that Russia could be admitted to the WTO by 2007. After representatives of Moscow and Washington failed to agree on this issue during the G8 summit in July 2006 in St. Petersburg, Gref sent a letter to US Trade Representative Susan Schwab. It stated that in case of further failure of negotiations on accession to the WTO, Russia will be forced to revise agreements on the import of meat from the United States, according to which quotas for the supply of poultry meat, beef and pork from this country were increased.

On June 26, 2006, Gref proposed to the board of directors of RAO "UES of Russia" to work out the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a center for power engineering on the basis of the Power Machines (SM) concern. OJSC Power Machines, with a turnover of US $ 639 million in 2004, was named by the media as the leading Russian manufacturer of power equipment. Earlier, the German concern Siemens expressed a desire to buy the OJSC, but the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) denied the right to acquire it under the pretext that the company was fulfilling, among others, military orders. Only after RAO "UES of Russia" acquired a controlling stake in Power Machines, Siemens received a blocking stake in the enterprise. According to media reports, by the end of August 2006, the energy holding directly owned 22.43 percent of the company's shares and about 30 percent was in the trust management of RAO; 2.5 percent of the shares were concentrated in the jurisdiction of the St. Petersburg Generation Company. Analysts saw in Gref's proposal an attempt to persuade the management of RAO to take Power Machines under their full control. The board of the energy holding, as stated in the communiqué, accepted the proposal of the head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade for consideration.

In July-August 2006, Gref's name was mentioned in the press in connection with the approval process of the 2007 draft budget. The submission of the draft document for consideration by the government was postponed, since the Gref department delayed the transfer of the updated forecast of government spending to the Ministry of Finance.

In December 2006, the Ministry of Economic Development approved the creation of special economic zones (SEZ) of a tourist type. Their residents will have to receive a profit tax benefit (20 percent instead of 24 percent), they will be able not to pay property and land tax for five years, and the unified social tax will be paid at a rate of 14 percent instead of 26 percent (but only from annual salaries to 280,000 rubles). In the 2007 budget, 1.1 billion rubles were allocated for the creation of infrastructure for tourist zones, so it was planned to create two or three, maximum five SEZs of this type. After a meeting of the competition committee at the end of October, seven regions scored the most points: Altai Territory, Gorny Altai, Buryatia, Irkutsk Region, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, and Kaliningrad Region. "The most difficult choice, nobody can be thrown out," Gref said at the decisive meeting of the commission and offered to support all applications. The commission agreed with him.

Describing the personality of Gref, the media wrote that he had a reputation as a firm market leader and a liberal who is ready to carry out unpopular reforms. He, according to a number of publications, believes in his ability to change Russia for the better. At the same time, it was noted that Gref lacks the depth and consistency of economic knowledge (he does not have an economic education). He believes in the absolute intrinsic value of private property and the need for the state to leave the economy as much as possible, and even state social programs, according to a number of publications, are an unnecessary burden in the eyes of the Minister of Economic Development. Gref does not accept anything that contradicts these principles, and it is absolutely impossible to persuade him, since he does not like and cannot conduct a reasoned dispute (it was even suggested that this was one of the main reasons for his dislike of the former presidential adviser on economic issues Andrei Illarionov, known for his love of discussions),.

The media linked the opinion expressed by a number of top officials to Gref's weak economic preparation, according to which Gref allows Finance Minister Kudrin to "play in his own field." As a result, departments that have to balance each other cannot work together. Speaking about the rivalry between Gref and Kudrin, a number of publications mentioned the alleged advantages of the Minister of Finance over the head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. According to them, Gref's personal merits before Putin are more modest than those that Kudrin has, who actively helped the future president find a job in Moscow after he left St. Petersburg in 1996. They also wrote in the media about the alleged mutual hostility between the ministers. However, the newspaper "FeldPochta" published the words of Gref himself, refuting this opinion: "We can argue and conflict as much as we like, but in difficult times we are ready to help each other." It is known that in 2004 Kudrin was among those invited to Gref's wedding.

In January 2006 Fradkov signed a program for the development of Russia for 2006-2008. "Vedomosti" called him "an excellent example of a compromise" between the prime minister and his subordinates, Gref and Kudrin. The signing of the program, according to the newspaper, was hampered by disagreements over the clause on doubling GDP in 10 years. Throughout 2005, Gref's department introduced various revised versions of the medium-term program, but there was no way to double GDP, despite the planned super-high oil prices. As a result, only the phrase remained in the program that the program should double GDP growth in 10 years, but without specifying exactly which years and without economic calculations. In return, Kudrin and Gref agreed to a reduction in the value added tax (VAT) rate to 13 percent, which Fradkov had insisted on for more than a year, but also without specifying the timing of the introduction of this rate. In this regard, political analyst Alexei Makarkin noted that "Fradkov clearly lacks the strength to push through decisions, there are too many centers of gravity in the cabinet," since "both Kudrin and Gref have direct access to the president."

It was noted that Gref is absolutely intolerant of the slightest signs of corruption in his entourage (allegedly, his secretaries are afraid to take even a box of chocolates as a gift). In 2001, Literaturnaya Gazeta expressed the opinion that Gref clearly sees that the root of evil in Russia is in corrupt officials. According to the newspaper, ninety percent of its efforts are directed at combating them. At the same time, the newspaper noted, the sobriety in Gref's assessment of Russian realities at times is strikingly combined with naivety: for example, he supposedly believes that if the authorities set an example of honesty and transparency, then the bureaucracy of lower levels will follow this example.

The press published statements about Gref as a proud, hot-tempered and not always restrained person. He reacts sharply to criticism and once, at a government meeting, was indignant for a long time and demanded to punish the extremists who publicly burned his stuffed animal. His working vocabulary is also figurative and emotional (the media published stories of Gref's colleagues saying that expressions such as "for such work you must be hung on a rope", "lowered down the stairs" is a common thing for him). At the same time, the press emphasized that Gref always apologizes if he was wrong, and in ordinary situations he is quite polite and correct.

According to some sources, Putin appreciates the simplicity, aphorism, and the "unscientific nature" with which Gref expresses his views on the country's development. It was even suggested that Putin's expressions "wet in the toilet" and "from a dead donkey's ears" were born precisely "during the meetings between the head of state and the minister of economy." A number of media outlets mentioned that Gref very often uses the win-win argument with other high-ranking officials: “I will go to Putin and he will support me!”, Despite the fact that the president does not like to interfere in conflicts between his associates.

In 2003, the television Vesti Nedeli, calling Gref the only Russian Catholic minister, reported that he accompanied President Putin on his visit to the Vatican and appeared before Pope John Paul II. Aruments and Facts, in turn, also talked about the visit to the Vatican, but clarified that Gref adheres to the Protestant faith, which denies the very institution of the papacy, which, in their opinion, added some piquancy to the situation.

In May 2006, in an interview with the NTV channel, Gref said that he was not going to work as an official all his life. Comparing civil service with military service, he noted that it is associated with "a huge number of restrictions, including personal restrictions." "But this cannot last a lifetime," he stressed. In December 2006, in an interview with NTV, he again spoke about his resignation. Having said that the work of the Minister of Economy is extremely difficult, he said: "I believe that there are a large number of worthy people in the country who will cope with these duties no worse than me." He also mentioned the need for rotation in the government, noting that "it will be necessary to" change "him in the near future, like other ... members of the government." About his plans for the future, Gref said: “I would like to go somewhere in business, I don’t know where else, we need to change the field of activity…”.

On September 12, 2007, Gref became the interim minister of economic development and trade of the Russian Federation due to the fact that Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov asked President Putin to resign his cabinet in full. The prime minister substantiated his request with a desire to give the president freedom of personnel decisions on the eve of the parliamentary and presidential elections. Putin accepted the resignation, asking the prime minister and other ministers to temporarily perform their duties. Fradkov's successor as prime minister was Viktor Zubkov, whose appointment was approved by the State Duma on September 14. On September 24, a new government was announced: Gref was replaced by his former first deputy Elvira Nabiullina.

On October 16, 2007, the Supervisory Board of Sberbank of Russia recommended Gref's candidacy for election as president and chairman of the bank's board. A few days earlier, the former head of Sberbank, Andrei Kazmin, was recommended by Zubkov to the post of head of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Post. At the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of Sberbank of Russia held on November 28, 2007, it was decided to early terminate Kazmin's powers "in connection with the transfer to another job." As expected, Gref was elected to his place (no other candidates were submitted to the vote).

In June 2009, Gref, as the chairman of the board of Sberbank of Russia, became a member of the board of directors of NK Lukoil (president - Vagit Alekperov).

In 2009, Gref repeatedly appeared in the press with forecasts about the future of the Russian economy and the possibilities of reducing the negative consequences for it during the global financial crisis. In January, he was quite optimistic: the head of Sberbank noted that simultaneously with the reduction in the number of banks as a result of the crisis, the technological level and quality of the banking system will improve, and a different model of risk management will replace the "old and, as it turned out, ineffective" model. At the same time, Gref admitted that the crisis would last longer than one might expect. In April of the same year, he said that "the banking crisis in Russia is now at the very beginning, and it will come from the real sector of the economy." At the same time, he said that back in September 2008, at a meeting of the Russian government, he predicted a decline in GDP in 2009 by four percent and a possible fall in the banking sector by 18.8 percent. "Then everyone laughed at it ... But now it is obvious that these are absolutely real numbers ...", - he said.

In December 2009, Sberbank of Russia announced a rebranding. Back in May of the same year, Gref said that the bank is going to change its corporate identity and choose a more "dynamic and young" logo instead of the existing logo. According to experts, changing the logo and updating all branches should have cost about 20 billion rubles. Even before the presentation of the new logo, experts said that although the rebranding of Sberbank is aimed at attracting new customers, it will pay off only if the business processes are changed along with the corporate identity. The new bank logo was presented on December 14, 2009; at the same time, Gref announced a number of other measures aimed at creating the image of an "absolutely new Sberbank", including the introduction of new formats of customer service offices. In September of the following year, the bank also changed its former name "Joint-Stock Commercial Savings Bank of the Russian Federation (Open Joint-Stock Company)" to a new one - "Open Joint-Stock Company Sberbank of Russia".

In January 2010, Gref, speaking at the Davos Economic Forum, spoke in favor of reducing the state's share in the capital of Russian banks: in particular, he proposed reducing the state-owned stake in Sberbank from 57.6 percent to 50 percent plus one share. In March of the following year, the sale of 7.58 percent of Sberbank shares was approved by the National Banking Council, and in September 2012, the shares were sold on the stock exchange for $ 5.22 billion.

At the end of May 2010, it became known that Gref had acquired a small amount of Sberbank shares - 0.000004 percent of the authorized capital. At the same time, it was noted that the option programs that were being prepared at that time for Sberbank could allow Gref to significantly increase his stake. However, in June Gref, without waiting for the start of the option programs, increased his stake in Sberbank by 150 times, bringing it to 0.0006 percent of the authorized capital. By August 2011, its share in the authorized capital of Sberbank increased to 0.0016 percent and continued to grow.

In February 2011, Vedomosti reported a record profit that Sberbank received and the largest payments to its managers in the history of the bank, amounting to almost 985 million rubles in 2010. The quarterly report noted that the increase in payments was associated with an increase in the bank's net profit from 21.7 to 183.6 billion rubles, i.e. more than 8 times. Gref spoke about the success of Sberbank at a meeting with Prime Minister Putin. In response to this, as noted by "Vedomosti", the head of government asked how much the bank pays on deposits to its depositors, and when he heard the answer that the rate would be about 5 percent for six months, he joked: "You are swindlers."

Sberbank's net profit in 2011 turned out to be a record again, exceeding the result of the previous year by 74 percent and amounting to 315.9 billion rubles. Only in the last quarter of the year, the bank showed a lower financial result than in 2010 due to increased allocations to reserves associated with the growth of lending outstripping the market. In the first quarter of 2012, Sberbank's net profit again exceeded the result of the previous year and amounted to 92.2 billion rubles against 86.8 billion in January-March 2011 [

Biography

German Oskarovich Gref is a Russian statesman of German origin, president and chairman of the board of Sberbank of Russia, former Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation (2000-2007). Co-chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mariinsky Theater, member of the Board of Trustees of the Russian International Affairs Council. Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic Research. Member of the Board of Directors of Yandex. Chairman of the HSE Board of Trustees. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Support of the Deafblind "So-Unity" Globalist, supporter of globalization in Russia.

Born in the village of Panfilovo, Irtysh district, Pavlodar region, Kazakh SSR, in a family of ethnic Germans who were expelled from Donbass in 1941.

In 1982-1984 he served in the Armed Forces of the USSR, in special forces units of the internal troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, stationed in the city of Chapaevsk, Kuibyshev region, military unit 3434.

1990 - graduated from the Law Faculty of Omsk State University with a degree in jurisprudence and left as a teacher at the Law Faculty of Omsk State University. At the university he was a Komsomol organizer of the course and the head of the Komsomol opera detachment, joined the CPSU.

In 1990-1993 he was a postgraduate student at the Law Faculty of Leningrad University. His scientific advisor was Anatoly Sobchak, whom he came to on the recommendation of S. N. Baburin, dean of the law faculty of Omsk State University, and became an FLNP activist. However, Gref never defended his thesis.

February 2011 - defense of a dissertation at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation on the topic: "Development and prospects of structural institutional reforms in the Russian economy."

Member of the Board of Trustees of ANO "Institute for Economic Policy named after liberal reformer Yegor Timurovich Gaidar"

Work in St. Petersburg

1991 - Legal Adviser of the Committee for Economic Development and Property of the Administration of Petrodvorets (St. Petersburg).

1992 - Head of the Petrodvorets District Agency of the Property Management Committee of the Administration of the City of St. Petersburg. Chairman of the Property Management Committee - Deputy Head of the Administration of the Petrodvorets District of St. Petersburg.

1994 - Deputy Chairman - Director of the Real Estate Department, First Deputy Chairman of the City Property Management Committee of the Administration (KUGI) of St. Petersburg.

1997 - Vice-Governor, Chairman of the City Property Management Committee of the Administration (KUGI) of St. Petersburg, member of the Board of Directors of JSC Lenenergo.

1998 - became a member of the board of directors of the Sea Port of St. Petersburg company and the board of directors of the St. Petersburg - 5th channel company.

During his work in the administration of St. Petersburg, German Gref met with Alexei Kudrin, Dmitry Kozak, Dmitry Medvedev.

Work in the Government of the Russian Federation (2000-2007)

1998 - Member of the Board of the Ministry of State Property of the Russian Federation. First Deputy Minister of State Property of the Russian Federation.

1999 - Member of the Board of the Federal Commission for the Securities Market, Head of the Center for Strategic Research.

In the presidential elections held on March 26, 2000, Vladimir Putin won. On May 7 he took office and on May 17 appointed Mikhail Kasyanov as prime minister. When the government of Kasyanov was formed, Gref was invited to the post of Minister of Economic Development, created especially for him. On May 18, by the decree of President Vladimir Putin, the Ministry of Trade of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation were merged into the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.

German Gref was the main lobbyist for Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization. Also, at various times, he was a member of the board of directors of many state-owned companies (Gazprom, Svyazinvest, etc.) On February 24, 2004, Kasyanov's government was dismissed. Gref also resigned from the post of minister.

In early March, the first Fradkov government was formed, in which German Oskarovich again headed the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation. The presidential elections were held on March 14, in which Vladimir Putin was re-elected. On May 7, having existed for only two months, this government resigned to the newly elected President of the Russian Federation. Mikhail Fradkov retained the post of prime minister, and a second Fradkov government was created in May, where German Gref continued to work as minister of economic development and trade.

On September 12, 2007, Prime Minister Fradkov asked Vladimir Putin to resign the government. The President accepted the resignation of the government and thanked him for the results achieved in his work. Putin noted such achievements of the government as good economic growth rates, lower inflation, growth in real incomes of the population, and the start of large social projects.

Sberbank

From October 2007 to the present, Gref has been Chairman of the Management Board of Sberbank of Russia. The former head of the bank, Andrei Kazmin, was transferred to work at the Russian Post, which caused discontent among the bank's leading managers, who voted against Gref. Gref's four-year contract as president and chairman of the board of Sberbank expired in November 2011.

Prospects for falling under sanctions

In January 2018, he was included in the "Kremlin list" of the US Treasury.

Public statements

In 2012, at the SPIEF 2012 forum dedicated to overcoming the crisis, in response to Tim Kelsey's monologue, Mr. Gref said that the effectiveness of the people's power raises doubts, and that people receive information without mediation inspires fear. He also stated that the media are somehow dependent and participate in the preservation of layers of society. Gref later explained that his previous statements were only dark humor in order to stir up the discussion.

On December 28, 2017, he sharply opposed the use of bank cards, stating that “I already mostly pay for Apple Pay. I dream of the moment when I will not have a card in my pocket at all, I consider it an atavism. "

Ratings

In October 2011, German Gref was noted by Forbes magazine as one of the nine most unusual Russian businessmen - madmen, eccentrics and eccentrics.

Income

In 2013, he entered the top 5 of the Forbes list (1st place) of the most expensive managers in Russia with an income of $ 15 million. The share of Sberbank of Russia owned by G.O. Gref: 0.003096% (stake price - $ 27.19 million) ... In 2014, he again appeared in a similar rating of Forbes in 4th place with income of $ 26 million.In 2015, in the list of the most expensive CEOs of the same publication, he took 6th place with $ 13.5 million, at the end of 2016 - third place with an income of $ 1 million.

Family and personal life

German Gref is married for the second time. His wife Yana Golovina (Glumova, Gref) is a designer. Their wedding was held in the throne room of the Great Peterhof Palace.

In 2006, Gref had a daughter, in 2008 - his second daughter.

Grefa's mother-in-law Tatyana Golovina is engaged in the resort business. Since the end of 2008, he has been the head of the Rus sanatorium in Gelendzhik, which belongs to the structures of the state company Transneft.

Gref's son from his first marriage, Oleg, graduated from Moscow State University in 2004, head of the consulting group NEO Center.

The elder sister of German Gref, Elena Peredriy, graduated from the Pedagogical Institute, married Sergei Peredriy and moved to Nakhodka. Elder brother Evgeny Gref is a businessman in Omsk, co-owner of Technosofia and Sibir-Keramika stores, Geomart and Letur shopping centers.

Herman Gref is a bilingual, from an early age he equally speaks Russian and German.

Awards

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (October 19, 2011) - for a great contribution to the development of the domestic banking system and many years of conscientious work

Order of Merit to the Fatherland, IV degree (August 6, 2007) - for active participation in the work to ensure the victory of the application of the city of Sochi for the right to host the XXII Winter Olympic and XI Paralympic Games in 2014

Order of Alexander Nevsky (2014)

Order of Honor (February 13, 2014) - for the achieved labor successes, significant contribution to the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, achievements in the humanitarian sphere, strengthening the rule of law, protecting the rights and interests of citizens, many years of conscientious work

Medal of P.A. Stolypin II degree (2009) - for services in the development and implementation of the economic development strategy of the Russian Federation and many years of impeccable work

Certificate of Merit from the President of the Russian Federation (February 11, 2009) - for many years of conscientious state activity
Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, I degree (ROC, 2006)
Honorary Citizen of the city of Astrakhan (2007)
Honorary Citizen of Peterhof (2007)

The personal badge of honor "For Civil Merit" I degree (Astrakhan, December 10, 2007) - for the enormous support aimed at the comprehensive socio-economic development of the city of Astrakhan, the expansion of production, the improvement of the living standards of citizens, their social security, the preservation of peace and friendship between peoples, further development of charity, patronage, and on the eve of the 450th anniversary of the city

Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honor (France, 2010) - for his contribution to the development of relations between the two countries
Laureate of the national award of business reputation "Darin" of the Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship in 2003.

Laureate of the All-Russian award of financiers "Reputation" 2013 in the nomination "For the formation of a socially responsible financial business"

Badge "For Services to the Moscow Region" I degree (2016)

German was born on February 8, 1964 in the village of Panfilovo, Pavlodar region, Kazakh SSR.

From 1982 to 1984 he served in the special forces units of the internal troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In 1990 he graduated from the law faculty of Omsk State University. Fluent in German and English.

From 1990 to 1993 he was a postgraduate student at the Law Faculty of Leningrad State University. The scientific supervisor was Anatoly Sobchak, to whom he came on the recommendation of the dean of the law faculty of Omsk State University Sergei Baburin. Gref did not defend his dissertation then.

1991: Work in the administration of St. Petersburg

• 1991-1992 - Legal Adviser of the 1st category of the Committee for Economic Development and Property of the Administration of Petrodvorets and St. Petersburg.

• In 1992, he was appointed head of the Petrodvorets District Agency of the Committee for City Property Management of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office.

• 1992-1994 - Chairman of the Property Management Committee, Deputy Head of the Petrodvorets City Administration.

• In 1994 he became Deputy Chairman, First Deputy Chairman of the City Property Management Committee of the St. Petersburg City Hall.

• 1997-1998 - Vice-Governor, Chairman of the City Property Management Committee of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office.

1998: Deputy Minister of State Property of the Russian Federation

• 1998 - Member of the Board of the Ministry of State Property of the Russian Federation. First Deputy Minister of State Property of the Russian Federation.

• 1999 - Member of the Board of the Federal Commission for the Securities Market, Head of the Center for Strategic Research.

2000: Head of the Ministry of Economic Development

• In 2000, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of State Property of the Russian Federation.

• From May 2000 to September 2007 - Head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.

One of Gref's main tasks as Minister of Economic Development was negotiations on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. And if at first the goal was to join the WTO at any cost and as quickly as possible, then the principle became the main one: "Russia will join the organization on the most favorable terms for itself." In this regard, the terms of accession to the WTO were constantly postponed. Under G. Gref, bilateral negotiations between Russia and all major world trade powers were successfully completed.

In his post, G. Gref also actively advocated the development of industrial production in Russia. 2005 became especially successful for him in this area. Thus, the Sukhoj Super Jet-100 (SSJ-100, formerly RRJ) program, a joint project of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, the Ilyushin aviation complex and Boeing, fell into his sphere of influence.

In the same year, the famous government decree N166 was issued, providing incentives for automakers who opened assembly plants in Russia (the conclusion of relevant agreements with auto giants was supervised by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade).

In the same 2005, a law developed by the ministry was adopted that regulates the activities of special economic zones and provides for preferential conditions for their residents. G. Gref also secured for his department the right to distribute funds for innovative projects both through the established Russian Venture Company (RVC) and through the Investment Fund.

In 2005, the minister became the chairman of the commission that forms the list of projects co-financed from the RF Investment Fund.

G. Gref also actively participated in promoting Sochi as a venue for the 2014 Olympics. Under him, the Ministry of Economic Development oversaw the federal target program "Development of the city of Sochi as a mountain-climatic resort until 2014", which was later transferred to the Ministry of Regional Development.

2007: President and chairman of the board of directors of Sberbank

November 28, 2007 at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders of Sberbank of the Russian Federation, Gref was elected president, chairman of the board of the credit institution. In this position, he replaced Andrey Kazmin, who was appointed head of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Post. Despite G. Gref's statement that no drastic changes in personnel policy are planned, several people from the bank's top management submitted applications for resignation. Among them were deputy chairmen of the board, heads of leading departments. However, the former minister did not lose his optimism - heading Sberbank, G. Gref, in his characteristic energetic manner, said: "We must prove that elephants can dance ... Give me time, and then we'll see who is capable of what."

So, G. Gref plans to make Sberbank more "client-oriented", in connection with which the bank has seriously increased the requirements for employees, and also work is underway to improve the principles of work, in particular those related to retail lending. Another serious undertaking by G. Gref was the expensive rebranding of Sberbank, the expediency of which in the conditions of the financial crisis caused a wave of indignation in the media. In addition, being a supporter of the idea of \u200b\u200bprivatizing state banks, G. Gref advocates reducing the share of the Central Bank in the authorized capital of the bank to 50% + 1 share from the current 57.6%. However, the government of the Russian Federation is in no hurry to privatize Sberbank, explaining this by its traditionally high social significance.

In May-June 2010 it became known that Gref became the owner of 0.0007% of ordinary shares of Sberbank of Russia, while his share in the authorized capital of the bank was 0.0006%. Earlier, G. Gref did not own the bank's shares. In October 2011. he increased his share of ordinary shares to 0.003%, and his participation in the authorized capital of the bank - to 0.0031%.

German Gref talks about Sberbank's crowdsourcing project

• Member of the Boards of Directors and Supervisory Boards of a number of joint stock companies and companies.

2011: Candidate of Economic Sciences

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