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US Newspapers - Paradise papers: wheeling and dealing
US Newspapers - Paradise papers: wheeling and dealing
The opening of the new museum, built at a cost of almost 13 million euros, was a major event in the tiny village of Alkersum on Germany’s North Sea island of Föhr. The celebration even attracted two queens – Sangay Choden Wangchuk of Bhutan and Margrethe II of Denmark. The guests also included ambassadors from several countries and celebrities like German newspaper publisher Friede Springer in addition to entrepreneurs and politicians. Bubbly was poured and music played. It was almost as if, for one day on July 31, 2009, nononsense Föhr had swapped places with its more glamorous, neighboring island, Sylt. Since its opening, the Museum Kunst der Westküste Museum of West Coast Art has hosted temporary exhibitions showing works by Max Liebermann, Edvard Munch or Max Beckmann, with a focus on northern European art from the 19th and early 20th centuries. All the works originate from the collection of Swedish pharmaceuticals magnate Frederik Paulsen, who also counted among the guests at the museum’s grand opening eight years ago. The Swedish billionaire with North Frisian ancestry, who now lives in Lausanne, Switzerland, donated the entire museum to the island of his ancestors. “You are a business personality who has a sense for his societal responsibility and also acts on it,” an enthusiastic Peter Harry Carstensen, thengovernor of the northern German state of SchleswigHolstein, said of the patron at the time. Carstensen resigned from his position three years later, but he still visits the museum. For business reasons, if you will. After all, Carstensen, who has since retired from politics, is listed in the Netherlands’ business registry as one of three directors of Peloponnesus B.V., a company registered in the Dutch city of Hoofddorp. According to its annual report, the Dutch company handles the “upkeep and dissemination of art as well as the operation of the Museum Kunst der Westküste on Föhr.” Peloponnesus is part of a broad network of companies that are part of the Paulsen corporation. A memo in the Paradise Papers served as the impetus for the reporting on this story. When contacted for a response by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and German public broadcaster NDR, one of the reporting partners on this project, a lawyer for Paulsen wrote that the company structure had been chosen to “ensure the greatest possible flexibility in the lending of artworks and the respective collections.”Peter Harry Carstensen left, Margrethe II of Denmark, Ellen Schwichert, Frederik PaulsenThe firm Ferring Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1950 by Paulsen’s father, who had fled to Malmö, Sweden, to escape the Nazis in Dagebüll in Frisia. His son Frederik Paulsen, today 67 years old, has largely withdrawn from the company’s activities. He now travels around the world as an explorer, researcher and philanthropist, with a penchant for unique places. In Bhutan, for example, he has supported the art of rugweaving with large donations, hence his acquaintance with the country’s royal family. He operates a winery in Georgia, is building fertility clinics in Russia and he has been to the North Pole multiple times. In North Frisia, the home of his ancestors, Frederik continues to support all forms of Frisian culture – including the Frisian language in schools, historical archives and even a Frisian radio station through the Ferring Foundation, an organization established by his father. He also donates to the conserative Christian Democratic Union CDU party. At least 450,000 euros flowed from Paulsen’s company Ferring into the CDU’s coffers between 2003 and 2009. Paulsen himself appears as a donor three times in the database, with a total of 118,000 euros between 2002 and 2010. From June 2002 to September 2010, Peter Harry Carstensen served as head of the CDUs state chapter. After that, no more large donations are registered for Paulsen or Ferring. A Frisian through and through, Carstensen is a fan of the homeland loyalty shown by the Paulsen family. Responding to que...