Frank Appel

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Frank Appel (2017)

Frank Burkhard Bernhard Appel (born July 29, 1961 in Hamburg ) is a German manager . He has been a member of the Management Board since 2002 and Chairman of the Management Board of Deutsche Post AG since February 2008 , appointed until October 2022. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Adidas AG and a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society .

Origin and studies (1961 to 1993)

Frank Appel grew up in Hamburg-Bergedorf . According to her own statement, "a classic middle-class child, in a new Hamburg district, in a 90 square meter row house, I shared eight square meters with my brother for 15 years". His father worked in sales for a shampoo company and he earned his first money at the age of 16 during the holidays by displaying and labeling cosmetic products in Hamburg shops. When he was 18, he wanted to become a professor of neurobiology . After graduating from high school in Lohbrügge in 1981 and doing military service in the air force in the ground service, he began to study chemistry at the University of Munich in 1983 at the age of 22 . He completed his studies in 1989 as a qualified chemist. In 1993 he did his doctorate in neurobiology at the ETH Zurich on the topic of Importance of the immunoglobulin-like domains and the fibronectin type III homologous repeats of the neural cell adhesion molecule L1 for neurite outgrowth, cell body adhesion and signal transduction .

Frank Appel is married, has two children and lives in Königswinter near Bonn.

Career (1993 to date)

From 1993 Frank Appel worked in a German branch of the management consultant McKinsey and became a member of the management there in 1999.
In 2000, he moved to Deutsche Post AG as head of corporate development .

In 2002 he was appointed member of the board of directors of the group and was responsible for Global Business Services , global key account management for Global Customer Solutions and the operational management of the group's First Choice program . In 2005 he organized the takeover of the British logistics company Exel .
After long-time Post Manager Klaus Zumwinkel offered to resign in February 2008, Frank Appel was unanimously elected by the Supervisory Board on February 18, with immediate effect, as the new CEO of Post. Even before the tax allegations against Klaus Zumwinkel, Appel was traded as his possible successor. He also succeeded Zumwinkel as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Postbank . On December 31, 2010, Appel resigned from the Postbank supervisory board.

As CEO of Swiss Post, Frank Appel earned almost ten million euros in 2016; of this, the multi-year variable remuneration amounted to around six million euros.

On May 9, 2018, Appel was elected to the Supervisory Board by the Annual General Meeting of Adidas AG.

literature

  • Barbara Nolte, Jan Heidtmann: The one up there. Interior views from German executive floors. Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-12599-1 , p. 49 ff.
  • Frank Appel , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 29/2011 from July 19, 2011, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Frank Appel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Post DHL Group | Dr. Frank Appel. In: www.dpdhl.com. Retrieved December 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Supervisory Board of Adidas AG, accessed on June 9, 2018
  3. ^ Senate of the Max Planck Society. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Post boss Appel in an interview "I thought it could be faster", sueddeutsche.de May 17, 2010
  5. ↑ Group top management, Der Chefreport, FAZ July 25, 2011
  6. ↑ Frank Appel: "That was a great vacation job", General-Anzeiger Bonn
  7. ↑ My way Me about myself: Frank Appel, FAZ from December 4, 2009
  8. ↑ Those up there, interior views from German executive floors, Suhrkamp (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  9. ^ The Post-Heroe manager magazin , February 15, 2008
  10. ↑ Supervisory Board appoints Dr. Frank Appel as the new CEO ( Memento from February 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Deutsche Post, February 18, 2008
  11. ^ The Yellow Eminence Spiegel Online , February 7, 2008
  12. ^ Postbank: Frank Appel to be the new head of the supervisory board Postbank AG, March 3, 2008.
  13. ^ Postbank: Frank Appel resigns from the Postbank supervisory board Postbank AG, December 2, 2010
  14. ↑ Frank Appel's luxury salary makes supervisors nervous welt.de, on March 21, 2014, accessed on July 5, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Appel, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Appel, Frank Burkhard Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager, board member of Deutsche Post AG
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg