Dieter von Holtzbrinck

Dieter von Holtzbrinck at the Lilienberg Entrepreneur Forum, 2007

Georg-Dieter von Holtzbrinck (born September 29, 1941 in Stuttgart ) is a German publisher . From 1970 to 1980 he was a managing partner of Handelsblatt GmbH. From 1980 to 2001 he was chairman of the management board of the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group and from 2001 to mid-2006 its chairman of the supervisory board. In 2009 he sold his shares in the group and founded Dieter von Holtzbrinck Medien GmbH, into which part of the group media was transferred.

Life

Dieter von Holtzbrinck is the older son of the publisher and entrepreneur Georg von Holtzbrinck (1909–1983) and his wife Addy von Holtzbrinck, née Griesenbeck (1913–2005). His sisters were Monika Schoeller (1939–2019) and Karin von Holtzbrinck (1943–2006). Stefan von Holtzbrinck (* 1963) is his half-brother.

Holtzbrinck studied economics at the University of St. Gallen and completed a one and a half year publishing internship in the USA. In 1970 he joined Handelsblatt GmbH as a managing partner . This belonged to the publishing group of his father Georg von Holtzbrinck, who founded the media company in 1931 and made it successful during the Nazi era. In 1980 he took over the management of the entire publishing group from his father. In 2001 he handed over the operational business to his half-brother Stefan von Holtzbrinck, who was 22 years his junior, and took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board.

In the middle of 2006 Dieter von Holtzbrinck withdrew from the company and gradually began to transfer his assets to a family foundation. At the time, his personal wealth was valued at $ 1.0 billion. In 2006, he was ranked 54th in the list of the richest Germans . Forbes' 2010 list of the richest people in the world ranks him 828th with a net worth of $ 1.3 billion.

In 2007 Dieter von Holtzbrinck tried unsuccessfully to take over the Süddeutsche Zeitung together with investors .

On June 1, 2009, Dieter von Holtzbrinck sold his shares in the publishing group to his half-brother Stefan and his sister Monika Schoeller, who have each held 50 percent since then. In return, Dieter took over from Holtzbrinck dailies with republic far meinungsbildendem influence in the newly founded by him Dieter von Holtzbrinck Medien GmbH (DvH media): all shares of Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt , the Tagesspiegel group and 50 percent of the publisher of the weekly Time , which operational management which DvH Medien took over. The daily newspapers with only regional importance ( Saarbrücker Zeitung group ) initially remained with the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group .

Until Rupert Murdoch joined the company , Holtzbrinck was a member of the corporate governance committee of the board of directors of the US publisher Dow Jones . With his resignation, Holtzbrinck protested against the takeover by Murdoch.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The World's Billionaires: # 828 Dieter von Holtzbrinck in Forbes Magazine from October 3, 2010
2. ↑ ^{a b} Isabell Hülsen : Million deal: Dieter von Holtzbrinck buys half-brother newspapers and magazines . In: Spiegel Online , SpiegelNet GmbH, March 26, 2009. Accessed December 16, 2015. 
3. ↑ Dow Jones: Holtzbrinck resigns in Manager Magazin on July 20, 2007