Hans Rudolf Woehrl

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Hans Rudolf Wöhrl (born November 20, 1947 in Nuremberg ) is a German entrepreneur , pilot, columnist and fashion designer.

Life

Hans Rudolf Wöhrl obtained secondary school leaving certificate in 1963 . He then attended the three-year International Business School in London and Geneva , which he did not graduate with. After training (from 1965 to 1967) to become a retail salesman , Wöhrl and his brother Gerhard Wöhrl took over the fashion house of the same name in Nuremberg , founded by his mother Berta and father Rudolf Wöhrl , which at the time had five branches. In the 2007/2008 financial year, which ended on March 31, 2008, Rudolf Wöhrl AG achieved sales of around 360 million euros and operates 40 fashion stores in Germany. Wöhrl was one of the first large entrepreneurs to introduce the four-day week for his employees.

In the spring of 2006, Rudolf Wöhrl AG, in which Hans Rudolf Wöhrl held 30% of the shares, took a 25.1% stake in Ludwig Beck AG with a turnover of 87.38 million euros (2006).

In 2011, Hans Rudolf Wöhrl left Rudolf Wöhrl AG after a dispute with his brother.

In 2013, Wöhrl took over all the hotels in the Gold Inn AG group and renamed them the Dormero hotel group .

In 2017, Hans Rudolf Wöhrl supported his son Christian Greiner in taking over the fashion chain Wöhrl, which had initiated insolvency proceedings in September 2016 . It still belongs to the family property.

On September 19, 2017, shortly before Wöhrl's 70th birthday, his autobiography was published by Piper Verlag with the title How my dreams learned to fly .

aviation

Another mainstay of Wöhrl is aviation. The entrepreneur, who acquired his first pilot's license at the age of 18, founded the regional airline Nürnberger Flugdienst (NFD) in 1974 , for which he also sat in the cockpit as a flight captain. When NFD merged with Deutsche Regionalflug to form Eurowings in 1992 , Wöhrl sold his stake in the company and joined Saarland Airlines . After the company went bankrupt, he remained closely involved in aviation as a pilot and consultant.

He returned to active airline business in the summer of 2003 when he bought British Airways' loss-making subsidiary Deutsche BA (later renamed dba ) for a symbolic euro (via the subsidiary Intro Aviation ) . In February to June 2006 Intro Aviation acquired 55% and MIC GmbH 45% (owner is LTU managing director Jürgen Marbach for many years ) all shares of LTU-Luftverkehrsgesellschaft in Düsseldorf and started a consequent restructuring program.

On August 17, 2006 it was announced that Air Berlin will buy the meanwhile profitable dba from Wöhrl for around 120 million euros. In August 2007, Air Berlin also took over the LTU, which had been renovated in the meantime. In April 2009 there was speculation that the entrepreneur could buy LTU back from Air Berlin.

On January 1, 2011, Wöhrl sold its shares in Rudolf Wöhrl AG.

Also in January 2011, Wöhrl announced that it would found a new airline called flynext and offer European flights. For this purpose, Alpha Exec was taken over and rebuilt. Flight operations began in June 2011. In October 2011, Wöhrl sold the airline to Germania , where it was later renamed Germania Express . In February 2012, Hans Rudolf Wöhrl and Peter Oncken, including with their consulting and investment company Intro Aviation GmbH , took over 74.9% of the shares in the Austrian regional airline InterSky . In December 2013 it was confirmed that Wöhrl and his company Intro Aviation will buy the airlines CityJet and VLM Airlines from Air France-KLM . They should be merged with Intersky and developed into a European regional airline.

In August 2017 Wöhrl announced that it wanted to take over the insolvent airline Air Berlin. His Vermögensverwaltung Intro-Verwaltungs GmbH made a formal offer through a Munich law firm.

Private life

Wöhrl has five children. Since 1984 he has been married to the former CSU member of the Bundestag, parliamentary state secretary and former Miss Germany Dagmar G. Wöhrl , with whom he has two children. The son Marcus (* 1985) ran unsuccessfully for the CSU in 2004 and in 2009 for the European Parliament . After the CSU leadership had not nominated his mother again as State Secretary in 2009, Marcus Wöhrl resigned from the party. In 2014, Marcus Wöhrl took over the management of a hotel in Berlin. He had been the sole director of the family-owned hotel group since November 2013.

The son Emanuel Nicolai (born August 26, 1988) died on July 1, 2001 after an accident.

capital

In 2013, Rudolf Wöhrl was ranked 282 in Germany on the list of the 500 richest Germans from the German Manager Magazine. The family fortune was estimated by Capital magazine at 200 million euros (as of 2015).

Positions

Wöhrl defended himself against allegations that he was buying ailing companies cheaply in order to sell them again as quickly as possible at a profit, pointing out that he invested where he saw opportunities, but was also prepared to part with projects with no future.

Awards

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Ritzer: These Wöhrls. Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 21, 2016, accessed on December 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Gerd Apenzeller: "To be honest, I am appalled". Der Tagesspiegel, August 22, 2017, accessed on December 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Founder nephew becomes the new boss at Wöhrl. ntv, January 31, 2017, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  4. ↑ How my dreams learned to fly. September 22, 2017. Retrieved December 12, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Dreams of a high flyer? This is how the Wöhrl biography reads. Nürnberger Nachrichten, October 6, 2017, accessed on December 12, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Axel Höpner: "I always shot against Lufthansa". Handelsblatt, October 5, 2017, accessed on December 12, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Wöhrl is interested in LTU long-haul routes. In: finanznachrichten.de . April 7, 2009, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  8. ↑ a b Wöhrl explains his new airline to us. In: evening newspaper . January 17, 2011, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  9. ↑ FLYNEXT's Airbus A319 takes off for the first time. In: austrianwings.info. June 1, 2011, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  10. ^ Gernot Zielonka: After Flynext sale, takeover of European airline planned. (No longer available online.) In: dmm.travel. October 4, 2011, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on December 22, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dmm.travel
  11. ↑ Intro Group takes over majority of Intersky. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . February 14, 2012, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Laura Frommberg: City Jet goes to Hans Rudolf Wöhrl. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. December 20, 2013, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Wöhrl plans European regional airline. In: focus.de . January 4, 2014, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Nuremberg entrepreneur Wöhrl is bidding with Air Berlin. In: Abendblatt.de . August 17, 2017. Retrieved August 18, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Hans Peter Reitzner: Wöhrl resigns from the CSU. In: nordbayern.de . November 10, 2009, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Marcus Wöhrl takes over luxury hotel in Berlin. In: nordbayern.de . November 4, 2013, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Marcus Maximilian Wöhrl takes over sole management. (PDF; 117 KB) (No longer available online.) DORMERO Hotels, November 1, 2013, archived from the original on January 6, 2014 ; accessed on December 22, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dormero.de
  18. ^ Susanne Hornberger: dismay over the death of Emanuel Wöhrl. In: welt.de . July 3, 2001, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  19. ↑ CSU politician Wöhrl: Son fell from the roof - dead. In: spiegel.de . July 2, 2001, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  20. ↑ Bernard Drako: This daredevil wants to buy Air Berlin. In: Berliner Kurier. August 29, 2017. Retrieved December 12, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Woehrl, Hans Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg