Hinrich Bischoff

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Hinrich Bischoff (born March 19, 1936 in Erfurt ; † November 11, 2005 in a clinic on the Bühlerhöhe in the Black Forest ) was a German entrepreneur and owner of the Germania airline .

Life

Hinrich Bischoff first completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk and made up his Abitur at the evening grammar school . He then studied law and did a doctorate in this area. After graduating, he found his first job as assistant to the executive board at Großwerft AG Weser in Bremen . In 1972 he was the first managing director of the newly founded charter airline Hapag-Lloyd . From 1970 to 1990 he also worked as a lawyer and art expert . In 1978, Bischoff bought his own aircraft and entered the leasing business , which in 2005 comprised around 40 of his aircraft.

Hinrich Bischoff founded Germania Fluggesellschaft in 1986 from the SAT airline it had bought and started an airline with three aircraft. In 2005 this company consisted of 577 employees with 44 aircraft. Germania made its own aircraft available to other airlines in wet lease (aircraft rental with Germania staff) or dry lease (aircraft rental only, without staff), including Air Berlin , dba , Hapag-Lloyd Express and the American Delta Air Lines . According to Bischoff, Germania was to be incorporated into Air Berlin after Joachim Hunold's death , but the heirs decided in favor of the continued independence of the company.

Bischoff had been a member of the SPD since 1964 . This membership was sometimes taken with astonishment because Bischoff clearly failed to achieve the union- social goals with regard to personnel remuneration in his role as an entrepreneur at Germania, and later when he bought 64% of the shares in dba . The fortune of Bischoff, who had also made a name for himself as an art collector and patron , was estimated at 400 million to 500 million euros in the year of his death.

The bishop, who died of cancer, was married and left behind two grown children from this marriage and two other illegitimate daughters.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Air Berlin boss Joachim Hunold continues to run Germania after Bischoff's death. In: fvw, specialist magazine for tourism. November 14, 2005, accessed May 15, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Airlines: Germania boss is dead, Air Berlin takes over. In: Spiegel Online. November 12, 2005, accessed May 15, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b "Some of the staff presented themselves as locusts". In: Berliner Zeitung. July 28, 2005, accessed May 15, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Hinrich Bischoff's passion for baroque painting. In: Welt Online. December 29, 2006, accessed May 15, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Phantom of the Runway. In: Manager Magazin. May 4, 2005, accessed May 15, 2013 .
  6. ^ Register - Hinrich Bischoff . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 2005 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Dinah Deckstein and Martin U. Müller: Family dispute with Germania. "My father would turn around in his grave". In: Economy. Der Spiegel , May 8, 2017, accessed on February 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bischoff, Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2005
Place of death Black Forest