{"id":2206,"date":"2016-01-18T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T06:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:09:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T11:09:10","slug":"legal-responsibilities-of-the-managing-director-in-a-gmbh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/legal-responsibilities-of-the-managing-director-in-a-gmbh\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal responsibilities of the Managing Director in a GmbH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The legal responsibilities of the Managing Director of a GmbH are irrevocable and non-transferable. The articles of incorporation of the GmbH may deviate to some extent from this principle. It is important to mention that the responsibility of a Managing Director is attributed to all directors (\u201cOrgan Capacity\u201d) if not otherwise stated in the articles of incorporation.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.startups.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fotolia_60242457_S.jpg\" alt=\"aufgaben eines gesch\u00e4ftsf\u00fchrers gmbh\" class=\"wp-image-15945\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Legal responsibilities (Art. 810 Para 2 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.admin.ch\/opc\/de\/classified-compilation\/19110009\/index.html\"><strong>OR<\/strong><\/a><strong>):<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Overall management of the company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Defining organisation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organisation of financial reporting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oversight of people entrusted with part of management of the company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Production of the business report (contains the annual accounts and the annual report)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Preparation and running of the shareholders\u2019 meeting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carrying out the decisions of the shareholders\u2019 meeting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Notifying the court in the event of excessive debt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Chair<\/strong> of the management board or the<strong> individual Managing Director<\/strong> also has the following legal responsibilities (cf. Art. 810 Para 3 OR):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Calling and managing the shareholders\u2019 meeting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Providing information to other shareholders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carrying out changes at the commercial register office<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These responsibilities are assigned to management by law and are irrevocable and non-transferable (Art, 810 Para 2 OR): This means that these decisions may not be delegated down (e.g to an employee) or up (to the shareholders\u2019 meeting). The articles of incorporation may deviate to a limited extent from this principle, by stating that certain decisions of the Managing Director should be brought before the shareholders\u2019 meeting for approval. The articles of incorporation may also state that only individual questions must be brought before the shareholders\u2019 meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will find further information about the responsibilities of a Managing Director in our <a href=\"http:\/\/Blog.startups.ch\" title=\"\">blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.startups.ch\/en\/contact\/appointment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00bb Contact us for a personal consultation<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.startups.ch\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00bb Get a quote and start your business now<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">\u00bbDiscover more informations on entrepreneurship in Switzerland<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get started as Mompreneur: <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mom-preneur.ch\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.mom-preneur.ch\/en\/home<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get started as Dadpreneur: <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dad-preneur.ch\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.dad-preneur.ch\/en\/home<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get started as Seniorpreneur: <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.senior-preneur.ch\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.senior-preneur.ch\/en\/home<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get started as Youngpreneur: <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.young-preneur.ch\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.young-preneur.ch\/en\/home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legal responsibilities of the Managing Director of a GmbH are irrevocable and non-transferable. The articles of incorporation of the GmbH may deviate to some extent from this principle. It is important to mention that the responsibility of a Managing Director is attributed to all directors (\u201cOrgan Capacity\u201d) if not otherwise stated in the articles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":4300,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54Pb1-zA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6430,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/6430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}