Christoph Keese

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Christoph Keese

Christoph Keese (born May 31, 1964 in Remscheid ) is a German journalist , publicist and lobbyist . Among other things, he was editor-in-chief of Welt am Sonntag and Financial Times Deutschland as well as executive vice president of Axel Springer SE . He is the managing director at Axel Springer hy GmbH.

Life

Keese is the son of a teacher and a manager. He spent his school days in Dortmund , Paris , San Francisco and Essen . After obtaining the general university entrance qualification in 1983, he attended the Henri-Nannen-Schule , the journalism school of the Gruner + Jahr publishing house . He then studied economics in Frankfurt am Main and Marburg . Keese began his professional career as assistant to Gerd Schulte-Hillen's executive board at Gruner + Jahr, and later became head of corporate communications.

After Gruner + Jahr took over the Berlin publishing house , Keese moved to the Berliner Zeitung in the early 1990s as managing editor and department head for business and media . From 1993 to 1994 he was also the managing director of the Academy for Business Administration in Dresden , a private educational institution. In 1997 Keese participated in the founding of the Financial Times Deutschland : first as authorized signatory and managing editor and then as deputy to editor-in-chief Andrew Gowers . In 2001 he finally took over the editor-in-chief together with Wolfgang Münchau himself, from September 2003 he performed the function alone. In 2004 he switched to Welt am Sonntag as editor-in-chief . In 2006 he was also given the positions of editor-in-chief of Welt Online and spokesman for the editors-in-chief of the Welt Group and Berliner Morgenpost .

In 2008 Keese handed over editorial responsibility for all world titles to Thomas Schmid , after which he became Group Managing Director Public Affairs at Axel Springer. In this newly created role, he should represent the company's interests in relation to the public sector. He received public attention, especially as a representative of ancillary copyright for press publishers . Keese has also coordinated the Investor Relations department at Axel Springer since 2012 . On September 1, 2014, he was appointed Executive Vice President , who, in addition to his existing responsibilities, was to accompany Axel Springer's transformation into a digital media company from now on .

Keese was on the board of trustees of the Johanna Quandt Foundation until he resigned from office in April 2008 - like Gabriele Fischer and Mathias Müller von Blumencron  . This was a reaction to the documentary Das Schweigen der Quandts , which examined the family's entanglements during the Nazi era . He is a member of the board of trustees of AFS Intercultural Encounters , with whom he spent a year as an exchange student in the USA from 1980 . In 2011 he alternated with Sabine Christiansen to present the TV program Chefsache , in which well-known managers such as Jürgen Großmann were introduced. During his work for Welt am Sonntag and Welt Online he conducted a series of interviews with philosophers , including about the epistemology and theses of Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche . Keese lives in Berlin with his wife and children .

Keese is one of the initiators of the Charter of Digital Fundamental Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

Books

Under the title Save Capitalism! Keese published his first book in the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house , in which the author makes a plea for this economic order against the background of a weak economy. The work received mixed reviews: Although it is worth reading with its call for more civic engagement, the author considers some facts too superficial. In his second book, Responsibility Now , Keese explains in the first part what responsibility basically means and then deals with how we can take on this in family, work, state and society. Observers praised Keese's statements, which were "easy to understand" and "presented a wonderful goal". But they also criticized a “devaluation of the concept of responsibility”, which is shown, among other things, in tips for call center employees .

In 2013 Keese spent six months as a so-called Visiting Fellow in Palo Alto, California . He succeeded Kai Diekmann , Peter Würtenberger and Martin Sinner, who had previously visited Silicon Valley . Keese presented his experiences with startups and the big internet companies in his third book. It is titled Silicon Valley - What is coming from the most powerful valley in the world and was published in 2014 by Albrecht Knaus Verlag . The work was rated positively in the FAZ, as Keese would describe and analyze "without becoming obscene". In 2016, also by Knaus, Silicon Germany - How we create digital transformation was published .

criticism

According to the magazine Horizont, Keese is considered to be the “chief lobbyist” of Axel Springer SE . As such, he described the company Google Inc. in the past as a “gang of fenders” and “a kind of Taliban”. According to Lobbypedia, he played “a key role in the campaign for the introduction of ancillary copyrights ”, which is aimed in particular against Google and was introduced in Germany in August 2013. In this context, Stefan Niggemeier accused Keese of deliberately spreading untruths about it in public. The online industry service Meedia confirmed this mainly in a fact check.

The “ ancillary copyright for press publishers ” was unanimously classified as a “catastrophe” by 5 experts in the German Bundestag in autumn 2014 and demanded that it be abolished without replacement. Other scientists also rated it at the same time as "half-baked, short of breath, lobby-driven" and also called for its abolition without replacement.

Publications

Monographs

  • How Germany comes back to the top . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-455-09423-6 .
  • Responsibility now . How we help ourselves and others and, at the same time, put our country in order. C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-570-00892-4 .
  • Silicon Valley . What is coming from the mightiest valley in the world. Albrecht Knaus, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8135-0556-6 .

editor

  • with Wolfgang Münchau (Ed.): 101 women of the German economy . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-409-15011-0 .

Anthology

  • ZDF night studio (ed.): Virtues and vice . Indicator of humanity. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-45649-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Annette Milz: The new foreign minister . In: Medium . No. 4 , 2008, p. 18-19 ( mediummagazin.de [accessed October 15, 2014]).
  2. ↑ a b Christoph Keese , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/2008 from May 20, 2008, in the Munzinger archive , accessed on October 15, 2014 ( beginning of the article freely accessible).
  3. ↑ Christoph Keese is responsible for Investor Relations at Springer. In: Kressreport. November 8, 2012, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Ascent. In: Manager Magazin. July 5, 2001, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Business newspaper without profit . In: Berliner Morgenpost . No. 322 , November 24, 2012, p. 7 .
  6. ↑ Christoph Keese switched to the "doublet" at the end of May. In: horizon. April 21, 2004, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  7. ↑ a b Editor-in-chief of the WELT Group reorganized. In: The world. March 12, 2008, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Klaus Raab: PIN? Pah, this is Posh! In: the daily newspaper. March 13, 2008, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  9. ^ Till Kreutzer, Christoph Keese: Tool or Knute? In: The time . No. 39 , September 20, 2012 ( zeit.de ).
  10. ↑ Christoph Keese is responsible for investor relations at Axel Springer. In: horizon. November 8, 2012, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Mihaela Dascalu: Axel Springer: Christoph Keese becomes Executive Vice President. In: The new distribution. August 30, 2013, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Personnel: Christoph Keese becomes Executive Vice President, Dietrich von Klaeden takes over the overall management of the Public Affairs division. In: Focus Online. August 30, 2013, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  13. ^ P. Katzenberger: Quandt Prize: Jurors resign. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. August 25, 2008, accessed October 14, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Rüdiger Jungbluth: Questions of honor . In: The time . No. 31 , 2008 ( zeit.de ).
  15. ↑ Jan Friday: The whole extent in full length . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 272 , November 22, 2007, pp. 40 ( faz.net [accessed October 15, 2014]).
  16. ^ The Board of Trustees of AFS. AFS Intercultural Encounters, accessed on May 6, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Jens Steffenhagen: Sabine Christiansen fails because of Puma boss Zeitz. In: The world. February 22, 2011, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  18. ↑ Jens Steffenhagen: The RWE boss is human. But only a little. In: Berliner Morgenpost. March 1, 2011, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Christoph Keese. In: The world. January 31, 2007, archived from the original on April 13, 2012 ; accessed on October 15, 2014 .
  20. ↑ Dieter Jepsen-Föge: Christoph Keese: Save Capitalism. How Germany comes back to the top. In: DeutschlandRadio Berlin. April 11, 2004, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  21. ^ Jürgen Turek: German descent . The country's crisis is finally being discussed in public. In: International Politics . No. 5 , 2004, p. 119-126 .
  22. ↑ Bruno Preisendörfer: linksrum capitalism . Vulgar liberalism in book form. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . May 10, 2012, p. 12 .
  23. ↑ Ernst Horst: Let's do our best in work, family and leisure time - now! In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 65 , March 17, 2006, pp. 37 ( faz.net [accessed October 15, 2014]).
  24. ↑ Oliver Müller: This is where the boss thinks . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 21, 2006, p. 14 .
  25. ↑ Katharina Hannen: Keese follows Diekmann and Würtenberger to Silicon Valley. In: Advertise & Sell. February 11, 2013, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  26. ↑ Ingo Rentz: Springer in Silicon Valley: Diekmann and Würtenberger leave, Keese comes. In: horizon. February 11, 2013, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  27. ^ Berlin: Book premiere "Silicon Valley" with Christoph Keese and Sigmar Gabriel. In: BuchMarkt. September 18, 2014, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  28. ↑ Michael Hanfeld: Up close, they look very peaceful . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 217 , September 18, 2014, p. 13 .
  29. ^ Christoph Keese: Silicon Germany. In: randomhouse.de. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Springer lobbyist Christoph Keese: “Google is a kind of Taliban” , from December 5, 2012
  31. ↑ https://lobbypedia.de/wiki/Christoph_Keese
  32. ↑ http://www.stefan-niggemeier.de/blog/13633/luegen-fuers-leistungsschutzrecht-1/
  33. ↑ http://www.stefan-niggemeier.de/blog/14554/luegen-fuers-leistungsschutzrecht-2/
  34. ↑ http://meedia.de/2014/11/10/in-sachen-leistungsschutz-christoph-keese-vs-stefan-niggemeier-und-die-medienjournalisten/
  35. ↑ golem.de : Hearing in the Bundestag: Experts tear apart the ancillary copyright , from December 3, 2014.
  36. ↑ Focus online : Experts call for ancillary copyright law in the Bundestag committee , from December 3, 2014.
  37. ↑ ComputerBase : Ancillary copyright law is “half-baked” and “lobby-driven” , dated December 4, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Keese, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid