Hans Schmid (entrepreneur)

Hans Schmid (born June 2, 1940 in Villach ) is an Austrian entrepreneur. In the past he worked as an advertising entrepreneur and media editor and is now a large winemaker and owner of the Vienna department store Steffl .

Life

The son of an innkeeper couple financed his studies as a student trainee at the University of World Trade in Vienna and was so successful as an advertising consultant for the Kronen-Zeitung during his studies that he decided to go full-time in the advertising business. In 1972 he founded his own advertising agency, which he led into a partnership with the internationally active GGK agency . The latter was taken over by him in 1992 and sold for a rumored 40 million euros in 2000.

Schmid's involvement in the media world was more changeable. He successfully ran the Zeitgeist magazine Wiener , which he founded in 1980 , with the former central organ of the SPÖ , the deficit Arbeiter-Zeitung , which he took over in 1989 , Schmid says he had around 70 million schillings (around 9 million after adjustment for inflation) until it was discontinued in 1991 . Euros) lost. The “dazzling creative with a penchant for market economy-oriented social democracy” relieved the SPÖ and his personal friend, the then Federal Chancellor and party chairman Franz Vranitzky , of a heavy financial and political burden by taking over the newspaper founded by Victor Adler .

2001 Schmid became president of the Vienna ice hockey team Vienna Capitals . In 2007 he took over a large number of vineyards in the west of Vienna. These Viennese wine-growing regions are also considered to be potentially valuable real estate investments.

Awards

2019: Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the State of Vienna

Web links

Hans Schmid in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
The Carinthian Month about Hans Schmid
Arne Johannsen: recruiter out of service . In: WirtschaftsBlatt , April 15, 2000. Retrieved April 30, 2010.

Individual evidence

↑ King Döbling In: Falter 25/2007 from June 20, 2007 ( Memento from January 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Hans Schmid received the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the State of Vienna. In: Rathauskorrespondenz. December 7, 2019, accessed December 23, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schmid, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian advertising entrepreneur, media publisher and large winemaker
DATE OF BIRTH	June 2, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Villach , Carinthia

[1] King Döbling In: Falter 25/2007 from June 20, 2007 ( Memento from January 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Hans Schmid received the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the State of Vienna. In: Rathauskorrespondenz. December 7, 2019, accessed December 23, 2019 .