Brigitte Mohn

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Brigitte Mohn (2016)

Brigitte Mohn (born Brigitte Scholz in Stuttgart - Degerloch on June 28, 1964 ) is a German entrepreneur . She is a partner in Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft and a member of the Group's supervisory board . Mohn is also the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the German Stroke Foundation and a member of the Bertelsmann Foundation's board of directors for the areas of health, community and civil society.

origin

Mohn is one of six children of the media entrepreneur and long-time Bertelsmann chairman Reinhard Mohn, who died in 2009 . Her mother Liz Mohn is among other things chairwoman of the shareholders' meeting of the Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft and deputy chairwoman of the board of directors of the Bertelsmann Foundation.

After graduating from high school in 1984, Mohn initially wanted to become a doctor, but decided to study political science , art history and German at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg , the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and the University of Augsburg . In 1993 she did her doctorate at the private University of Witten / Herdecke . In 2001 Mohn completed an MBA at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar near Koblenz and the Kellogg School of Management in the United States.

Act

From 1993 Mohn worked as a lecturer at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy . She then moved to the US publishing group Bantam Doubleday Dell in New York City, where she was in charge of Academic Marketing. She also worked for Random House 's children's book publisher and Doubleday book clubs in Canada. From 1997 to 1998 Mohn worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in Hamburg. Then she worked for the multimedia agency Pixelpark in Switzerland until 2000 .

Mohn joined the foundation's work at the end of 2000. In December 2001 she was appointed chairwoman of the board of the German Stroke Foundation , which her mother Liz Mohn had founded in 1993. The foundation works for better prevention and early detection of the disease. After she had been responsible for medicine on the Bertelsmann Stiftung's executive board since 2002, Mohn moved up to the board in early 2005. There she is responsible for health and community and civil society issues. For her social commitment, Mohn received the honorary award for social entrepreneurship from the consulting firm Ernst & Young and the Ethics in Business Award from the International Association for Human Values ​​(IAHV).

In 2008 she moved up to the Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft, which controls the voting rights in Bertelsmann's general meeting, and also became a member of the Supervisory Board, where she represents the sixth generation of the owner families. In particular, your calling should ensure family continuity and social responsibility.

Further mandates

Mohn is chairman of the supervisory board of the non-profit analysis and consulting company Phineo and a member of the executive board of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group, a worldwide network for the promotion of social and ecological investments. In addition, she was a member of the supervisory board of the health care provider Rhön-Klinikum from 2002 to 2020 .

Honors

Publications

  • Brigitte Mohn: Municipal youth welfare in transition: Analysis of selected areas of the implementation of the KJHG . University of Witten / Herdecke, 1993, DNB  943055717 .
  • Brigitte Mohn, Monika Kirschner: Risk of stroke: prevent competently, recognize alarm signals, act correctly, avoid consequences. Egmont VGS , Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8025-1696-6 .
  • Liz Mohn, Brigitte Mohn, Werner Weidenfeld, Johannes Meier: Values. What holds society together. Bertelsmann Stiftung publishing house , Gütersloh 2006, ISBN 3-89204-908-4 .
  • Brigitte Mohn: There are values ​​that are set for me. In: Stefanie Unger (Ed.): Trust is good: Values ​​in crisis or a crisis of values? Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch , Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-89981-207-7 .

Web links

Commons : Brigitte Mohn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Brigitte Mohn. In: International Biographical Archive. Munzinger, May 30, 2017, accessed July 20, 2017 .
  2. ^ Personal details : Mohn on the Bertelsmann Supervisory Board . In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 18, 2007, p. 16 .
  3. ↑ a b Board of Directors. Bertelsmann Stiftung, accessed on July 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Board of Trustees. (No longer available online.) German Stroke Foundation, archived from the original on February 2, 2017 ; Retrieved July 20, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schlaganfall-hilfe.de
  5. ↑ Matthew Karnitschnig: The Complicated Romance of Liz Mohn. In: Der Tagesspiegel. December 8, 2003, accessed July 20, 2017 .
  6. ^ Günther Bähr, Tatjana Meier: Bertelsmann: Scenes of a marriage . In: Focus . December 8, 2003, p. 188 .
  7. ↑ Liz Mohn. In: International Biographical Archive. Munzinger, July 9, 2013, accessed May 4, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Petra Schlitt: Brigitte Mohn: Liberated from the Empire. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. August 27, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  9. ↑ a b Nina Klöckner: Not without my family . The versatile one. In: Financial Times Germany . October 31, 2007, p. 30 .
  10. ^ Jon Christoph Berndt: Bertelsmann heiress Brigitte Mohn . Man, brand! In: Handelsblatt . Perspectives. October 17, 2008, p. 19 .
  11. ↑ Inga Michler: Bertelsmann and the Mohn family . October 1, 2005, p. 11 .
  12. ↑ Stefan Brams: The early swimmer . Brigitte Mohn talks about her work and her life. In: New Westphalian . April 8, 2004.
  13. ↑ a b Dagmar von Taube: The second “Bertelsfrau” . Liz Mohn is her great role model. In: Welt am Sonntag . August 4, 2002, p. 12 ( welt.de [accessed July 20, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Beautiful & clever: The Bertels women . In: Bunte . April 24, 2003, p. 56 .
  15. ↑ Pete Smith: Effective Strategies For Stroke. In: Doctors newspaper. August 28, 2009. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
  16. ↑ The foundation focuses on prevention and education . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . June 2, 1998, p. 4 .
  17. ↑ Hans-Peter Siebenhaar: The slow rise of Brigitte Mohn . In: Handelsblatt . July 20, 2004, p. 16 .
  18. ↑ Bertelsmann Foundation reorganized . In: Börsen-Zeitung . July 21, 2004, p. 11 .
  19. ↑ Brigitte Mohn: Commitment to the common good . In: Handelsblatt . November 21, 2016, p. 53 .
  20. ^ Ethics in Business Awards. World Forum for Ethics in Business, accessed April 22, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Bertelsmann: More power for the family . In: Der Spiegel . February 10, 2003, p. 81 .
  22. ↑ Brigitte Mohn moves up . In: New Westphalian . February 12, 2003.
  23. ↑ Reinhard Mohn waives his voting rights . In: Börsen-Zeitung . July 2, 1999, p. 13 .
  24. ↑ Brigitte Mohn moves into the supervisory board . In: Börsen-Zeitung . December 18, 2007, p. 7 .
  25. ↑ People and Markets . In: The world . December 18, 2007, p. 20 .
  26. ^ Mohn on the supervisory board . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . December 18, 2007, p. 23 .
  27. ^ Jörn Krieger: Bertelsmann: Brigitte Mohn in the supervisory board . In: Medienbote . No. 821 , 2007, p. 6 .
  28. ↑ Money is not everything . In: Manager Magazin . 23 August 2013, p. 124 .
  29. ↑ Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group. Accessed April 22, 2018 .
  30. ↑ Personnel: Change in the Rhön Supervisory Board . In: Börsen-Zeitung . May 17, 2002, p. 7 .
  31. ↑ Stefan Kritzer: Münch is leaving the Rhön-Klinikum Supervisory Board . In: Main-Post . August 20, 2020, p. 16 .
  32. ↑ Brigitte Mohn receives the Erika Pitzer Prize. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 5, 2018, accessed on August 14, 2020 (dpa).
personal data
SURNAME Poppy, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scholz, Brigitte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart - Degerloch