Holger Wrede, Esq.
Member of the Board of Directors
Mr. Wrede has a background as an international attorney and has worked in international banking for large companies. He moved into the entertainment world by becoming an advisor to the Founder and Chairman of the Kirch Group. Wrede worked as an attorney, advisor and negotiator for the worldwide deals that Kirch was involved in, including with all Hollywood majors, a joint venture deal with RCA and sponsors for the cultural television programs of the Kirch Group. Wrede left Kirch to pursue his interests and love for the American Cowboy which turned into an involvement with U.S. Television Office, Inc., owner of the Hopalong Cassidy motion picture film library. Wrede secured all Hopalong Cassidy rights in 1985 and is currently the President. His efforts to restore the library culminated in a major license to Starz Encore’s Westerns Channel. Wrede has also arranged for a major museum exhibit of the Hopalong Cassidy Collection which toured to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma, American Museum of the Moving Image and the Gene Autry Western Heritage Center. Wrede is now negotiating for the production of a new Hopalong Cassidy movie and the creation of new Hopalong Cassidy merchandising based on the old as well as prospective Hopalong Cassidy characters.
EDUCATION:
1967-1972: Goettingen University, Law School, Goettingen,Germany
Degree: Referendar (1. State) Examination
1970 Summer: City of London College,London,England
Studies in International and Foreign Law
1970-1971: University of Paris
Auditor in Common Market Law
1972-1973: Harvard University, Law School, Cambridge,Massachusetts
Scholarship from German Academic Exchange Service
Degree: Master of Laws (LL.M.)
1972-1973: Harvard Law School, Research Assistant at International Tax Program
1974: Law Clerk at German French Chamber of Commerce, Paris,France
1975: Goettingen University, Law School, International Law Division,
Degree: Doctor of Jurisprudence
1975-1976: Goettingen University, Research Assistant at Institute of International Public Law
1976: Justice Department,Germany
Degree: Assessor (2. State) Bar Examination
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:
1976-1977: Attorney with Mueller Weitzel Weisner Frankfurt, Germany (International Law Firm)
1977-1980: Corporate Counsel for State Bank ofHesse, Germany (Germany’s 8th Largest Bank)
Responsibilities: Legal supervision of all
foreign/international business dealings of the bank
1980-1988: Executive and Consultant for International Media Company Beta Film/Taurus Film (Kirch Group) in their United States
offices, New York andLos Angeles
Responsibilities: Handling of all matters in connection with purchasing, selling, producing, co-producing, financing and marketing of motion
pictures, television, home video, merchandising products; negotiating joint ventures, acquiring film libraries, collection of license fees, handling of legal matters, supervising lawsuits throughout the world in the field of international copyright violations
1988-Present: Financier, Advisor, Partner in various partnerships in the Entertainment, Financing, Biotechnology and Health Spa Industries as well as investing in and securing film libraries. Former sponsor/lender of my privately owned Hopalong Cassidy memorabilia collection at The Hopalong Cassidy Cowboy Museum in Wichita, Kansas.
