15 March 2012
Royal Dutch Shell chief executive Peter Voser saw his total pay packet more than double in 2011, a year when shareholders in the oil super-major had to make do with flat dividend payouts.
The blue-chips annual report showed Vosers total compensation last year hit 11.6 million (£10.1 million), boosted by payouts on a host of the companys long-term share plans, in contrast with a far smaller 4.7 million in 2010. The payout comes after a year in which the Anglo-Dutch giant boosted profits 54% to $28.6 billion (£18.1 billion) as oil prices averaged $111 a barrel. But the companys dividend remained flat at $1.68 over the year.
The firms upstream director Malcolm Brinded, who steps down next month after a career with Shell spanning nearly 40 years, took home almost as much as Voser last year, landing £9.9 million in salary, bonuses and share schemes. The huge payouts are likely to raise eyebrows among investors who delivered a shock blow to the board three years ago by voting down discretionary payouts to bosses despite missing performance targets.
Shell added today that the UKs former US ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald is joining the board in July as a non-executive director on a likely salary of at least 120,000 a year joining heavy-hitters including outgoing Deutsche Bank chief executive Josef Ackermann.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
