Christoph Franz

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Christoph Franz (2013)

Christoph Franz (born May 2, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German - Swiss manager . From January 1, 2011 to April 30, 2014 he was CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG . Since March 2014, he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche .

Life

Franz studied as a fellow of studienstiftung at the Technical University of Darmstadt Industrial Engineering and completed the study as a Doctor of Economics and Social Sciences (Dr. rer. Pol.) From. In 1990 he joined Deutsche Lufthansa, where he worked on projects for strategy, sales and controlling. From 1992 to 1994 he worked on the staff of the then CEO Jürgen Weber .

In 1994, Franz moved to Deutsche Bahn AG . On September 24, 1999, with effect from October 1, 1999, he was appointed CEO of DB Reise & Touristik by the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG . He replaced Axel Nawrocki in this function. At the same time, he became a member of the Deutsche Bahn AG executive board. Before that, Franz was Head of Corporate Development . After the failure of the new price system , for which he had strongly advocated, he was released from his duties at the Supervisory Board meeting on May 20, 2003. Karl-Friedrich Rausch was appointed as his successor in his function . Deutsche Bahn cited different views on how the difficulties of the price system could be resolved as the reason for the replacement.

Franz was appointed Chairman of the Management Board on July 1, 2004 by the Board of Directors of Swiss International Air Lines . After the successful restructuring of Swiss, Franz was appointed deputy group board member from May 2009. He took over the passenger area from June 2009. On January 1, 2011, he took up the post of CEO of Lufthansa as successor to Wolfgang Mayrhuber in order to bring Lufthansa on a sustainable profit path. During his tenure he has the austerity program score launched, with the operating result is to be improved by 1.5 billion euros from 2015 onwards.

Franz announced on September 16, 2013 that he was not available to extend his contract, which ended on May 31, 2014. The Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche announced on the same day that the Board of Directors would propose Franz as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Annual General Meeting on March 4, 2014, succeeding Franz B. Humer . Franz has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2011. As a reason for not wanting to extend his Executive Board employment contract at Deutsche Lufthansa AG, which expired in May 2014, Franz stated that he was particularly fascinated by being able to take on a new professional challenge at Roche. Franz handed over his office at Lufthansa to Carsten Spohr on May 1, 2014 . From June 11th to 14th, 2015 he took part in the 63rd Bilderberg Conference in Telfs- Buchen in Austria .

Private

Franz is married, has five children and lives in Zug .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Franz appointed CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG as of January 1, 2011, press release of September 22, 2010.
  2. ↑ The Dax Doctors. In: manager-magazin.de. May 13, 2011, accessed May 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Registration of personal details: DB Reise & Touristik . In: Railway technical review . 48, No. 11, 1999, p. 766.
  4. ↑ New boss to reform rail . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 213, 1999, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. 25.
  5. ↑ Announcement new board members . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 11, year 1999, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 450
  6. ↑ Ulf Brychy, Klaus Ott : Bahn corrects the controversial price system . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 116, 2003, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. 1.
  7. ↑ Former Lufthansa managers control the train . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 116, 2003, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. 22.
  8. ↑ Swiss - Christoph Franz becomes the new CEO of Swiss ( Memento from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) - from April 20, 2004
  9. ↑ Manager Magazin - Swiss boss becomes group vice-president - from April 23, 2009.
  10. ↑ Christoph Franz becomes head of Lufthansa ( Memento from February 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in: Schweizer Fernsehen from September 22, 2010.
  11. ↑ a b Holger Alich, Jens Koenen: Departure from Lufthansa? In: Handelsblatt . No. 178 , September 16, 2013, ISSN  0017-7296 , p. 1 .
  12. ↑ Dinah Deckstein: The deserter . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 23 September 2013, ISSN  0038-7452 , p. 76-77 .
  13. ↑ http://www.lufthansagroup.com/ ( Memento of January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG
  14. ↑ Handelsblatt.com
  15. ↑ Lufthansa boss Franz takes over at Roche. In: Tages-Anzeiger .ch / Newsnet from September 16, 2013
  16. ^ A b Victor Weber, Peter Burkhardt: "Life is not lived tax optimization" Interview in: SonntagsZeitung from December 27, 2015.
  17. ↑ Manager-news wrote on April 28, 2014 about the reasons for Franz's departure from Lufthansa (link no longer available)
  18. ↑ Lufthansa shareholders say goodbye to Christoph Franz. Press release of April 29, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Franz, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss manager
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main