Dussmann (group of companies)

Dussmann Stiftung & Co. Limited partnership based on shares
legal form	Foundation & Co. KGaA
founding	1963
Seat	Berlin , Germany
management	Board of Directors: Wolf-Dieter Adlhoch (spokesman), Pietro Auletta, Jörg Braesecke, Hakan Lanfredi, Dieter A. Royal Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees: Catherine von Fürstenberg-Dussmann
Number of employees	64,500 (2017)
sales	2.20 billion euros (2017), of which 1.32 billion euros in Germany
Branch	Services
Website	www.dussmanngroup.com

The Dussmann Group is a German service provider .

history

Peter Dussmann (1938–2013) founded Dussmann Heimpflegedienst GmbH in Munich in 1963 . In the 1970s and 1980s, new services were added and the company entered the office service sector with Pedus Office . In 1985, the company took over management of seven senior citizens' homes, thereby establishing the Kursana division . In 1997 the cultural department store Dussmann was opened in Berlin . In 2017, the Dussmann Group achieved total sales of EUR 2.20 billion with around 64,500 employees.

In September 2007 Peter Dussmann resigned from the management team after suffering a stroke. His wife, Catherine von Fürstenberg-Dussmann , took over the chairmanship of the Dussmann Group's supervisory board in April 2009 and is now the chairwoman of the board of trustees.

subsidiary company

Company car

Dussmann service

The largest division, Dussmann Service, offers building services, e . B. Building technology , building cleaning , catering , security services , commercial management. Dussmann Service is active in 17 countries and has 52 branches and support points in Germany. In 2017, Dussmann Service achieved sales of 1,756 million euros.

Dussmann Office

The Dussmann Office division also provides office services, including the provision and rental of virtual offices and complete offices.

Kursana

The Kursana GmbH of the Dussmann Group is a service provider in the field of elderly care and support. It was created in 1985 from the takeover of management for seven senior citizens' homes and today comprises 116 retirement and care facilities for 13,600 senior citizens in Germany , Austria , Switzerland , Italy and Estonia .

Culture department store

Culture store in Berlin

The Kulturkaufhaus, opened in 1997 in Berlin-Mitte , Friedrichstrasse, offers books, CDs, DVDs, audio books, software and other office supplies on five floors and 7,000 m² of retail space.

CultureKindergarten

The Dussmann KulturKindergarten non-profit GmbH operates day-care centers close to the company throughout Germany.

Dresden refrigeration plant construction

Dresdner Kühlanlagenbau , founded in 1953 as VEB Kühlanlagenbau Dresden and privatized in 1992 as Dresdner Kühlanlagenbau GmbH , has belonged to Dussmann since 2013 .

Board

Members of the board are Wolf-Dieter Adlhoch (spokesman * 1975, on the board since August 2017), Pietro Auletta (* 1956, on the board since April 2014), Jörg Braesecke (* 1966, on the board since September 2007), Hakan Lanfredi (* 1969, member of the board since February 2017), Dieter A. Royal (* 19, member of the board since August 2017).

Board of Trustees

Chairwoman Catherine von Fürstenberg-Dussmann and members Doris Greif, Roland Koch , Rainer Lorz, Horst Schiessl and Maurice Thompson are represented on the Board of Trustees .

literature

Nadine Beck, Michael Kamp: 50 years of the Dussmann Group - 50 ideas for people . Dussmann Foundation, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-041908-9 .

Web links

Commons : Dussmann Kulturkaufhaus - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website
Janko Tietz: Sweeping Week in St. Petersburg . Article about the Dussmann Group's commitment in Russia, in: Der Spiegel 25/2005 of June 20, 2005, pp. 106-107 (pdf; 231 kB)
Jan Fleischhauer: Anti-social thinking . Interview with Peter Dussmann in: Der Spiegel 2/1998 of January 5, 1998, pp. 71–73 (pdf; 236 kB)
Work, but different . Article about the outsourcing of production and services and temporary work, in: Der Spiegel 15/1997 of April 7, 1997, pp. 94–96 (pdf; 343 kB)
Services: servant and master . Article on the outsourcing of services in industry, in: Der Spiegel 13/1989 of March 27, 1989, pp. 116–117 (pdf; 234 kB)

Individual evidence

↑ dussmanngroup.com: Board of Directors
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^ Maren Peters: Kulturkaufhaus: Peter Dussmann lets go. Der Tagesspiegel, September 5, 2007
^ Women in business: Catherine von Fürstenberg-Dussmann . n-tv.de, December 9, 2009
↑ Catherine von Fürstenberg-Dussmann , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 24/2011 from June 14, 2011, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
↑ Wolf-Dieter Bose: Cooling system builders ensure the right temperatures in Gebesee and Erfurt. In: thueringer-allgemeine.de . May 6, 2013, accessed January 7, 2018 .
↑ Alfons Frese: Dussmann: For the first time more than two billion euros in sales. In: tagesspiegel.de . May 27, 2016, accessed January 7, 2018 .
↑ dussmanngroup.com: Board of Trustees

[1] ussmanngroup.com: Board of Directors

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[3] Maren Peters: Kulturkaufhaus: Peter Dussmann lets go. Der Tagesspiegel, September 5, 2007

[4] Women in business: Catherine von Fürstenberg-Dussmann . n-tv.de, December 9, 2009

[5] Catherine von Fürstenberg-Dussmann , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 24/2011 from June 14, 2011, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

[ta-130506-6] Wolf-Dieter Bose: Cooling system builders ensure the right temperatures in Gebesee and Erfurt. In: thueringer-allgemeine.de . May 6, 2013, accessed January 7, 2018 .

[tagesspiegel-13648566-7] Alfons Frese: Dussmann: For the first time more than two billion euros in sales. In: tagesspiegel.de . May 27, 2016, accessed January 7, 2018 .

[8] ussmanngroup.com: Board of Trustees