Franz Zeithammer

Franz Zeithammer (born July 9, 1939 in Saaz , Sudetenland ; † December 22, 2019 in Saarbrücken ) was a German trade fair, tourism and culture manager .

Life

Franz Zeithammer started working in public relations at the Stuttgart publishing house Franckh-Kosmos in 1961 . He also published a non-fiction book there entitled Zwischenstation Mond . From 1972 he became active at Messe Stuttgart , initially as head of various trade fairs and the Federal Garden Show . In 1978 he became managing director of Messe Stuttgart. From 1981 he was deputy managing director of Messe Düsseldorf . In 1985 he became managing director of Hamburg Messe und Congress and from 1989 honorary professor for cultural management at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . From 1990 he was also President of the Marketing Club Hamburg.

In October 1996, at the invitation of the SPD government, he moved to Saarland, where, as a multi-manager, he took over the management of Völklinger Hütte , the Congress-Centrum Saar , the Kontour and the Saar Tourist Office, became an employee of the Saarland Bau und Boden Projektgesellschaft and became the board member of Industrial Culture Foundation and a professorship for cultural management at HBK Saar . In March 1998, he resigned from all offices. Due to deficit events, misappropriation of public funds and actions outside the budget, a committee of inquiry was set up in the Saarland state parliament . There was a deficit of 1.35 million marks in the room. Eventually he was convicted of infidelity .

He died on December 22, 2019 in Saarbrücken.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cultural Management: Theory and Practice of a Professional Art, p. 594 ( preview )
2. ↑ Did Zeithammer give orders to the son? at Abendblatt.de
3. ^ Written report by the committee of inquiry at fragdenstaat.de
4. ↑ A cultural monument gets into political turbulence at welt.de
5. ↑ Zeithammer died at pressreader.com
6. ↑ Franz Zeithammer at stuttgart-gedenken.de