Gunter Heise

Gunter Heise (born April 19, 1951 in Laucha an der Unstrut ) was the managing partner and spokesman for the management of Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien GmbH in Freyburg (Unstrut) until the end of April 2013 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Naumburg, the son of a baker studied processing and process engineering , specializing in food technology, at the Technical University of Dresden . In 1973 he began his professional career as a graduate engineer at VEB Rotkäppchen-Sektkellerei , and in 1978 he became technical director. After German reunification , Heise became managing director of the company under the management of the Treuhandanstalt in 1991 .

After the purchase by the management, Heise became a managing partner in 1993. He modernized the traditional Rotkäppchen Sekt brand and made it number 1 on the German sparkling wine market with a market share of 31% in 2009. After his retirement at the end of April 2013, he became chairman of the advisory board. His successor is Christof Queisser.

Gunter Heise is an enthusiastic carnivalist . He has a son from his marriage to a dentist.

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (June 4, 1999)
• "Entrepreneur of the Year" (2002)
• "Unit price " of the SUPER illu (2010)
• Order of Merit of the State of Saxony-Anhalt (2010)
• Social Market Economy Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (2019)

literature

• Christian Geinitz: Little Red Riding Hood and the shy wolf. In barely 16 years, the engineer Gunter Heise turned the East German sparkling wine producer Rotkäppchen-Mumm from being restructured into the second largest sparkling wine producer in the world. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 29, 2007, page C3

Web links

• Rotkäppchen-Mumm sparkling wine cellars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien GmbH: Page no longer available , search in web archives: press kit from March 30, 2010 (zip, 383 kB)
2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
3. ^ Company man of the year 2002: Gunter Heise. HOROZONT.NET from December 17th, 2002
4. ↑ SUPERillu honors Gunter Heise. Unit price for »Mr. Little Red Riding Hood".  ( 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. In: SUPERillu H. 6/2010 of February 4, 2010  
5. ↑ Prize winner 2019: Gunter Heise - Social Market Economy Prize goes to shareholders and chairman of the advisory board of Rotkäppchen GmbH. In: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung eV Accessed on January 24, 2020 .