Friedrich Joussen

Friedrich "Fritz" Peter Joussen (born April 19, 1963 in Duisburg ) is a German manager . He is CEO of TUI . Before that, he was Chairman of the Management Board of Vodafone D2 GmbH and, until the integration was complete, Chairman of the Management Board of Vodafone AG & Co. KG (formerly Arcor AG & Co. KG).

Career

Joussen was born as the son of Peter Joussen (1933–2014), a lawyer at Thyssen AG (later Thyssen Industrie), and his wife Elma, b. Flights, born in Duisburg, has three siblings, including the legal scholar Jacob Joussen . He graduated from high school in 1982 at the Duisburg Landfermann-Gymnasium , studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University , gained his first professional experience at Tektronix in Oregon and then started in 1988 at what was then Mannesmann AG . In 1990 he became assistant to the management of the new D2 mobile communications division. From 1997 to 2000 he was Marketing Director of Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH . In 2001, after the takeover of Mannesmann by the Vodafone Group , he became head of "Global Product Management" at Vodafone's headquarters in Newbury, England . In 2003 Friedrich Joussen returned to Germany and took over the role of Chief Operating Officer of Vodafone Germany .
Since 2005, Joussen has been Chairman of the Management Board at Vodafone Germany and a member of the CEO Council of the Vodafone Group. He was also a member of Vodafone's five-member Global Innovation Board , which accompanies all product innovations worldwide from the idea to market readiness.

Since the end of 2006, Joussen has also been responsible for the subsidiary Arcor AG & Co. KG (Eschborn / Taunus) within the Vodafone Group . From January 2007 to July 31, 2008 Joussen was chairman of the supervisory board. After taking over the Arcor company shares from Deutsche Bank AG and Deutsche Bahn in May 2008, Joussen and the ten-person Executive Committee created a uniform joint management structure for Vodafone and Arcor at the top management level from August 1, 2008. In addition to his role as CEO of Vodafone Germany, he himself took over as CEO of Arcor AG at that time.

In March 2012, Joussen announced that, after more than 20 years at Mannesmann and Vodafone, he would be giving up the position of Vodafone Germany boss and taking on new tasks from the fourth quarter of 2012.

On July 30, 2012, TUI AG announced that Joussen would join the TUI AG Management Board on October 15, 2012 and that he would take over the position of Chairman of the Management Board from Michael Frenzel at the end of the Annual General Meeting on February 13, 2013 . Joussen announced cuts when he took office at TUI; Frenzel had previously announced a quarterly loss of EUR 137 million. At the Annual General Meeting of TUI AG on February 13, 2014 in Hanover, Joussen announced that TUI shareholders would receive a dividend of EUR 0.15 per share for the 2013 financial year. After the merger of TUI AG with TUI Travel PLC, Friedrich Joussen was appointed Co-CEO of the TUI Group in December 2014. Since February 9, 2016, he has been the sole CEO of the TUI Group.

Joussen is a staunch advocate of blockchain technology and announced the switch from TUI to blockchain in 2017, "because I am 100 percent sure that blockchain is the future" and he expects it to bring profound changes to the internet industry.

Patents

Friedrich Joussen himself holds several patents , including for the twin card, which he developed and successfully brought onto the market. In addition, he was instrumental in developing SMS in Germany into a marketable, commercial product.

Memberships

Joussen is a founding member and alumnus of the Bonding Student Initiative .

Political commitment

In December 2009, Joussen became active as a testimonial for the New Social Market Economy initiative . He got involved in a PR campaign for the statement "The social market economy makes it better ... because it combines growth, prosperity and justice."

Private life

Joussen is with Silke Joussen, geb. Ostkamp, ​​specialist in anesthesia and intensive care medicine in the teaching hospital of the University of Düsseldorf , married.

literature

• Friedrich Joussen , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 42/2012 from October 16, 2012, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich Joussen , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 42/2012 of October 16, 2012, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
2. ↑ Jürgen Berke : Change of boss at the top of Vodafone. In: Wirtschaftswoche of March 14, 2012. Retrieved on June 13, 2012.
3. ↑ TUI AG press: successor to Dr. Michael Frenzel at TUI regulates TUI AG press release of July 30, 2012. Accessed on July 30, 2012.
4. ^ Rheinische Post; Vodafone boss goes to Tui
5. ↑ New Tui boss Joussen announces cuts
6. ↑ Manager News
7. ↑ Press release at tuigroup.com
8. ↑ Blockchain: How Tui wants to break monopolies like Booking.com or Airbnb. In: manager magazin . May 29, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2019 . 
9. ↑ cf. INSM campaign "Social Market Economy Makes It Better" , December 13, 2009, under the Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft International ( Memento from May 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), as well as motifs for the campaign "Social Market Economy Makes It Better" , insm.de  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ).
10. ↑ cf. INSM campaign "Social Market Economy Makes It Better" , December 13, 2009, under the Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft International ( Memento from May 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), as well as motifs for the campaign "Social Market Economy Makes It Better" , insm.de  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
11. ↑ Dr. iur. Peter Joussen: Obituary notice ( Memento from April 28, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 23, 2014.