Dieter Schnabel (entrepreneur)

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Dieter Schnabel (born November 5, 1946 in Hamburg ) is a German entrepreneur and sole owner of Helm AG .

Life

His father was the German entrepreneur Hermann Schnabel , who took over the Karl O. Helm company in 1950. From 1968 Dieter Schnabel also worked in the company. He worked for the company in Mexico for 11 years . On January 1, 1984, Dieter Schnabel became CEO of the German company Helm AG. He drove the change from a trading company to an internationally operating marketing organization and, since the late 1980s, has expanded Helm AG from a pure trading company to a product developer. From 1984 to 2004 Schnabel was able to quadruple the company's turnover to 3.5 billion euros. On January 1, 2012, he gave up the chairmanship of the board, which Hans-Christian Sievers took over, and has been chairman of the supervisory board ever since. Schnabel is married to a German-Mexican woman and has three children. His eldest son Stephan also works in the family business, where he has been a board member in the crop protection division since 2012 and followed Hans-Christian Sievers as CEO of Helm AG from April 1, 2020.

According to the list the world's billionaires of the Forbes Magazine was Schnabel in 2013 in Germany at number 12 and internationally at number 161 of the list of the richest people.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Oliver Schade: Hamburg's silent maker . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on February 22, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b HELM AG: History. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Helm hires managers for corporate management | chemanager-online.com - chemistry and life science. Retrieved February 22, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Oliver Schade: Dieter Schnabel says goodbye to the executive chair . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on February 22, 2018]).
  5. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/wirtschaft/article228098625/helm-ag-hamburg-familienunternehmen-stephan-schnabel.html
  6. ↑ Profile at Forbes Magazine ( Memento from August 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schnabel, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg