Antje von Dewitz

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Antje v. Dewitz (2015)

Antje von Dewitz (born September 18, 1972 in Ebingen (today Albstadt )) is a German entrepreneur . She is the managing director of the mountain sports outfitter Vaude in Tettnang .

Youth and family

Antje v. Dewitz grew up in Untereisenbach near Tettnang. She is the middle of the three daughters of Albrecht v. Dewitz , who founded the family company Vaude in 1974 . The family forms a branch of the originally Mecklenburg-Pomeranian noble family of the von Dewitz family .
At the age of seventeen, Antje v. Dewitz spent a school year in the city of Chattanooga in the US state of Tennessee .

Antje v. Dewitz lives with her partner and their four children in Tettnang.

Studies and professional activity

Von Dewitz studied economics and culture at the University of Passau . In 1998 she completed her studies with a diploma. Von Dewitz actually wanted to work in the field of environmental protection and had initially not planned to join her father's company. When she first worked at Vaude in 1998, she built up the “Bags and Luggage” division. From 2000 to 2002 she was responsible for public relations , in 2005 she took over the entire marketing management. In the period from 2002 to 2005, she was also a part-time research assistant at the University of Hohenheim , where she wrote a dissertation entitled “The creation of a high-performance employment relationship through Talent Relationship Management”. In 2005 she became Dr. oec. PhD. In 2009 Albrecht v. Dewitz her management.

Since then, von Dewitz has gradually been aligning more and more company processes to criteria of sustainability and environmental compatibility. If possible, this should also happen along the entire value chain, i.e. H. also in the logistics of the products and with suppliers abroad.

Economic policy positions

CO 2 tax

Von Dewitz sees the introduction of a CO2 tax as positive. She regards this as an "innovation engine for the economy".

Common good economy

Von Dewitz advocates that the guidelines of the economy for the common good be observed more closely and criticizes the fact that in the economy too much attention is paid to financial indicators. Together with Christian Felber , she managed to get the European Economic and Social Committee to speak out in favor of the common good economy model in 2015 and to advocate that this should be "integrated into both the European and national legal frameworks".

Initiative for the right to stay for refugees and the immigration law

At the beginning of 2018, Antje v. Dewitz, together with the brewing entrepreneur Gottfried Härle, launched the right to stay initiative for refugees with a permanent job or apprenticeship, which 80 companies and three associations from Baden-Württemberg have joined in a short time. The entrepreneurial initiative demands a right of residence for rejected asylum seekers , provided they can provide evidence of a job or training position. On April 19, the initiative was received by the Interior Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Thomas Strobl . Antje v. Dewitz for the rapid introduction of an immigration law , since Vaude had to struggle with a labor shortage in certain areas that could be covered by recruiting foreign workers.

Offices and functions

Awards

Publications

  • Courage suits us! Sustainable, humane, fair - with an attitude towards success , Salzburg-Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-7109-0072-3 .
  • The creation of a high-performance employment relationship through "Talent Relationship Management". A practice-oriented concept for medium-sized companies . Dissertation University of Hohenheim, 426 pages, Shaker Verlag , Aachen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8322-5048-5 (also available as an e-book in PDF format )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publicly accessible section in the Munzinger Archive , 50/2016, December 13, 2016, accessed on March 6, 2017
  2. ↑ Lisa Nienhaus: Vaude boss Antje von Dewitz: Die Wandersfrau , FAS , 23 August 2011, accessed on 6 March 2017
  3. ↑ Antje von Dewitz: Courage suits us well! Sustainable, humane, fair - with an attitude towards success, Salzburg-Munich 2020, p. 31.
  4. ↑ Dagmar Deckstein: Portrait: Entrepreneur Antje von Dewitz , Character , pages 6–15, Issue 1, August 2013, PDF format, approx. 3.4 MB, Bethmann-Bank , accessed on March 6, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Georg Hohenester: Power woman from Lake Constance , DAV Panorama, 4/2011, PDF format, approx. 637 kB, with further biographical information; accessed on March 6, 2017
  6. ↑ So also in Typically German - Conversation with Hajo Schumacher on Deutsche Welle on March 8, 2015
  7. ↑ a b Tina Groll : What do you do with your inheritance? , published on ZEIT-online on November 4, 2010, accessed on March 6, 2017
  8. ↑ Bibliographical information on the dissertation , German National Library
  9. ↑ The title of the dissertation is e.g. B. in the article by Christian Thiele: The woman called for the green , published on ZEIT-online on July 31, 2014, accessed on March 6, 2017
  10. ↑ Dagmar Deckstein: Vaude - sustainability as a strategy. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 5, 2016, accessed June 6, 2017 .
  11. ↑ In detail z. B. Kristin Lüders, Dominic Veken: Against the wind. Interview with Antje v. Dewitz In: Enorm , 05/2016, p. 43f.
  12. ↑ Article in Handelsblatt , September 3, 2019.
  13. ↑ a b Dagmar Deckstein: Common good economy. To take responsibility. Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 6, 2016
  14. ↑ Moritz Schildgen: Upper Swabian entrepreneurs want to prevent the deportation of migrants. Schwäbische Zeitung, April 24, 2018
  15. ↑ Entrepreneur initiative: Right to stay for refugees in training and work required , in: The economy between Alb and Bodensee, 06/2018 ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Page 6, IHK Ulm, PDF format, approx. 6.8 MB. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ulm.ihk24.de
  16. ↑ Ulrich Mendelin: Loew must choose President . In: Schwäbische Zeitung , December 20, 2016.
  17. ^ Project Advisory Board of Natural Capital Germany , Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research UFZ
  18. ↑ Board and Management of the European Outdoor Group , EOG website, accessed on May 17, 2020.
  19. ^ Board of Trustees of the German Federal Environment Foundation , DBU website.
  20. ↑ Vanity Fair website, accessed June 7, 2020
  21. ↑ Doing business ecologically and socially is more difficult than it should be. In: Capital , March 4, 2019.
  22. ^ Regina Henkel: Vaude boss Antje von Dewitz receives the honorary award “Brand Manager of the Year” . Fashionunited, July 2, 2018.
  23. ↑ Brief vitae of the order pretenders , State Ministry Baden-Württemberg , May 6, 2017, p. 2 (PDF; 130 kB).
  24. ↑ Martin-Werner Buchenau, Joachim Hofer: Antje von Dewitz: Die Gipfel-Strürmerin , Hall of Fame for family businesses, Handelsblatt online, January 11, 2017.
  25. ↑ Dr. Antje von Dewitz receives BAUM environmental award , press release, WWF
  26. ^ Leonie Müller: Antje von Dewitz , exhibition board, memories and stories of people from the 90s , exhibition being young in the country , State Center for Civic Education Baden-Württemberg (PDF, 325 kB).
  27. ^ Entrepreneur Antje von Dewitz: The sustainable summiteer . In: Der Standard , May 31, 2019, accessed on May 31, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Dewitz, Antje von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebingen (today Albstadt )