Christian Goldschagg

Christian Goldschagg (born November 5, 1959 in Munich ) is a German entrepreneur and former professional cyclist.

Athletic career

Goldschagg was a successful cyclist from 1974 to 1986 , and since 1984 as a professional. At times he was a member of the German national team. In 1976 he won six German junior championship titles on track and road and a silver medal in the team pursuit at the UCI Junior Track World Championships in Vienna . He started as an amateur for the RSG Olympiapark Munich and as a professional in 1986 for the Blacky-Verago (Switzerland) team, and in 1987 for Blacky-Machnow (Germany). At the 1986 Coca Cola Trophy he was third in the criterion in Mosbach (winner: Rigobert Matt ), third in the criterion in Ennepetal (winner: Dietrich Thurau ) and winner in the criterion in Bremen (ahead of Dietrich Thurau, who was also the overall winner of the trophy).

Entrepreneur

From 1987 he was managing director and owner of the fitness studio chain "FIT-PLUS", which he founded in the greater Munich area, and made it the market leader in Germany with over 200 employees, 17 branches and around 27,000 members. In February 2000 he sold the company to a British venture capital company.

From 1996 to 2007 he was a partner, from January 1, 2004 also chairman of the shareholders' meeting of the Süddeutscher Verlag , in which the Süddeutsche Zeitung appears as its best-known product . His father was a partner in the publishing house. His grandfather Edmund Goldschagg (1896–1971) was a co-founder of the publishing house and co-license holder of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 1947. The Goldschagg family held 18.75% of the publishing company, divided into “SV Christian and Gisela Goldschagg GmbH” (8.33%) and “SV Family Goldschagg GmbH & Co. KG” (10.42%). As one of four of the five shareholder families (Dürrmeier, Goldschagg, Schwingenstein and von Seidlein), after years of speculation, they finally agreed in 2007 to sell their publishing shares totaling 62.5%. On December 21, 2007, the completion of the sale was announced with the acceptance of SWMH. Effective February 29, 2008, it increased its stake to a total of 81.25 percent.

On New Year's Eve 2000, Goldschagg and his friend Axel Zwingenberger had the idea of ​​buying a steam locomotive and express train and using it as an exhibition space for pictures by Zwingenberger, a history of the locomotive, as well as the venue for boogie-woogie live concerts and special trips. For this purpose, both founded the initiative “Rettet die 18 201” and later the Munich-based “Dampf-Plus GmbH”, of which Goldschagg is the managing director. The company acquired two steam locomotives, including the 18 201 , the fastest operational steam locomotive in the world, and the 03 1010 in 2002 for around 1 million euros . The 18 201 was restored for several hundred thousand euros. In addition to this, the company operates seven cars from the Deutsche Reichsbahn , including the only preserved ministerial saloon car of the GDR government since 2003. Due to disputes with Deutsche Bahn and the resulting financial problems, 03 1010 was returned and 18 201 was transferred to Goldschagg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Süddeutscher Verlag - Portrait

Web links

• Christian Goldschagg in the Radsportseiten.net database