Britta Steilmann

Britta Steilmann (born April 17, 1966 in Wattenscheid ) is a German designer, entrepreneur and manager.

Life

Steilmann studied design at various schools in Montreal , Paris and New York .

Immediately after graduating from high school in Wattenscheid, she started supporting her father Klaus Steilmann in the textile company Klaus Steilmann GmbH & Co. KG . When a position became available at a subsidiary in Montreal, Canada , she jumped in spontaneously. She broke off her education at the Community College Fashion Institute of Technology at the State University of New York . In 1992 she founded her own fashion label . At the age of 27, she received the “Eco Manager of the Year” award for designing the first eco collection. In 1994 she was also the “personal advisor for ecological innovation” to the then SPD candidate for chancellor Rudolf Scharping and in 1996 manager of Til Schweiger . In 1997 she was appointed to the management of Steilmann-Verwaltungs-GmbH & Co. KG together with her sister Ute Steilmann . Until 1999, Britta Steilmann was the manager responsible for exports, managing the foreign companies and looking after major customers. Due to unsuccessfulness and in a dispute with her father, she left this post. Then she worked as a management consultant. Between 2001 and 2003 she returned and became chairwoman of the management of the Steilmann Group. Under her leadership, the company underwent a restructuring process that was accompanied by the loss of around 1200 jobs. In 2003 the Steilmann Group ran into economic difficulties again when annual sales fell by 9% to 507 million euros. These were overcome with the dismissal of a further 750 employees and the entry of the Italian Miro Radici Group, Bergkamen , which took over about half of the company shares. In the same year Britta again handed over the chairmanship of the management to Ute Steilmann. Manager magazine reported an argument between the sisters, which they denied.

In addition, Britta Steilmann was the first woman manager of a Bundesliga team with SG Wattenscheid 09 ; In this role she was responsible for the dismissal of trainer Hannes Bongartz . Together with her sister Ute Steilmann, she was the managing director of Klaus Steilmann Immobilien GmbH & Co. KG, based in Bochum-Wattenscheid.

Britta Steilmann founded Britta Steilmann Sustainable Development & Co. KG in 1994, based in Ratingen , which was liquidated in 2009 after its business activities and worked as a designer and management consultant, among other things. 2017 Britta Steilmann founded the School of Consciousness (School of consciousness) , which offers a holistic lifestyle advice. Among other things, she follows psychological-holistic approaches such as that of Byron Katie (The Work) and Per van Spall.

Britta Steilmann lives in New York and Düsseldorf, she has a daughter.

Honors

• 1993 eco manager of the year
• 1995 Federal Cross of Merit (at that time the youngest recipient of this award)

literature

• Britta Steilmann , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 07/2014 of February 11, 2014, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

• Britta Steilmann - Design , former website
• School of Consciousness , website
• Brief portrait In: Wirtschaftswoche . January 15, 2002, accessed May 4, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ in: Succession planning in a medium-sized family company by Martin Kraus
2. ↑ Balance: Ex-Steilmann boss - How's Britta Steilmann doing? In: The world . August 1, 2017, accessed May 4, 2019.
3. ↑ After a downward trend, growth will return in two years. In: Stern . June 7, 2004, accessed May 4, 2019.
4. ^ The Steilmann daughters: The failed ones In: FAZ, April 21, 2007, accessed on May 4, 2019.
5. ↑ Stefan Weber: Fashion for millions, not for millionaires. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 17, 2010, accessed May 4, 2019.
6. ^ Brigitte Koch: Klaus Steilmann In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 16, 2009, p. 16.
7. ↑ It's going fantastic. In: WAZ.de , June 22, 2012, accessed on May 4, 2019.
8. ↑ Britta Steilmann: Daughter of Trotskopf homecoming. In: Handelsblatt. August 21, 2001. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
9. ↑ Entrepreneur: Britta Steilmann comes with "School of Consciousness". In: Rheinische Post . Online June 22, 2018, accessed May 4, 2019.
10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2016 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.