Jörg Mittelsten Scheid

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Jörg Mittelsten Scheid (born May 7, 1936 in Wuppertal ) is a German entrepreneur . He headed the Vorwerk Group from 1969 to 2005 . Mittelsten Scheid was also Vice President of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry , President of Eurochambres ( umbrella association of European chamber organizations) and a member of the Enterprise Policy Group of the European Commission . In his hometown he works as a patron .

Origin, school and university education

Jörg Mittelsten Scheid is a son of Werner Mittelsten Scheid (born April 26, 1904, † September 16, 1953). After his parents separated, Jörg Mittelsten Scheid moved to Bavaria with his mother and attended the Landheim Schondorf , a boarding school on the Ammersee .

He then studied law at the universities of Munich , Innsbruck , Geneva , Oxford and Würzburg . First and second state exams followed. For his PhD he spent a year doing research in India . His dissertation , published in 1970, deals with the division of India . After receiving his doctorate, which he shares with summa cum laude graduated, the target of state and international law, a habilitation and held as assistant lectures .

Head of Vorwerk

Head of the Vorwerk companies

Jörg Mittelsten Scheid broke off his scientific career in 1966. Instead, he followed a request from his uncle Erich Mittelsten Scheid and joined the Wuppertal company Vorwerk & Co. KG as the great-grandson of company founder Carl Vorwerk . In 1969 he took over the management of the company as a personally liable partner .

Under his leadership, which lasted until the end of 2005, Vorwerk developed "from a production-oriented medium-sized company to a global service and trading group". The pillars of success include, in particular, the initially completed reduction in the number of products without loss of sales, the concentration on direct sales and the internationalization of the company . Vorwerk's 1966 turnover was 315 million DM , in the 2005 financial year the group turnover reached 2.2 billion euros . The milestones in the company's development included the establishment of Hygienic Service Gebäudereinigung und Umweltpflege GmbH (later called HECTAS ) in 1974 , the takeover of Lux Asia Pacific (direct sales organization of Electrolux ) in 2001 and the takeover of Jafra Cosmetics in 2004 .

At the beginning of 2006, Jörg Mittelsten Scheid moved to the head of the Advisory Board of Vorwerk & Co. KG and held this position until the end of 2012. Since then he has been an honorary chairman of the Advisory Board. In-house he is also known as “Dr. Jörg ”.

Association and advisory activities

  • Jörg Mittelsten Scheid was President of the Wuppertal-Solingen-Remscheid Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1985 to 1997 . Since 1997 he has been honorary president of this chamber.
  • From 1988 to 2001 he was Vice President of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry .
  • From 1990 to 1991 he was a member of the German government's tax reform commission .
  • From 1993 to 1997 he was a member of the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business .
  • In 1996 the CDU appointed him to its commission on the “future of the tax system”.
  • At the beginning of 1997 the general assembly of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in North Rhine-Westphalia elected him President and representative of the North Rhine-Westphalian chambers on the board of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry . He held this office until early 2001.
  • In 1998 Jörg Mittelsten Scheid was unanimously elected President of Eurochambres . He headed this umbrella organization of European chamber organizations until 2001. Before being elected President, he was vice-president of this association.
  • He was also a member of the Enterprise Policy Group , the European Commission's SME Advisory Board.

Values, honorary positions and commitment

Jörg Mittelsten Scheid announced in 1995 that he was shaped by the “ pietistic attitude” of his family and that he assumed the “ social obligation of capital ”. These attitudes would have an impact on his voluntary activities. These activities and his civic engagement include:

  • From 1999 to 2004 he was a member of the University Council of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
  • Since 2006, he has been a member of the jury of the German Entrepreneur Award, which honors the entrepreneurial achievements of medium-sized companies .
  • In 2010, the entrepreneur from Wuppertal and the Institute for Educational Research at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal launched the initiative Awakening the joy of learning under the patronage of Christina Rau . Jörg Mittelsten Scheid is a member of the jury that honors projects and concepts that serve to inspire pupils to learn in schools.
  • With a donation, the entrepreneur financed the Jörg Mittelsten Scheid program of the Carl Duisberg Society . It served to promote work or study-related stays abroad.
  • He and his family donated the funds (3.15 million euros) to build a new penguin facility, which was opened in the Wuppertal Zoo in March 2009.
  • Jörg Mittelsten Scheid provides the International Organ Competition Wuppertal of the Cologne University of Music and Dance with the cash prizes.
  • He donated for the construction of the Theater am Engelsgarten in Wuppertal, which was completed in 2014.
  • In 2015 he resigned from the CDU because the party would no longer stand for fair performance; he feels "uncomfortable" with it
  • On his 80th birthday in 2016, he and his family made a donation of 1.5 million euros to his hometown. The funds went to the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (funding of the Dr. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid guest professorship for ten years), to the city's zoo (start-up funding for the construction of a new facility for threatened Asian species), the Wuppertal movement (redesign of the Hackenberg garden) as well as the Kindertal campaign (support for Wuppertal children and young people from poor and disadvantaged families).

Awards and honors

Family and wealth

On December 29, 1988 Jörg Mittelsten Scheid married Vivica Charlotte Natalie Countess zu Stolberg-Wernigerode in a civil ceremony, the church wedding followed on May 27, 1989. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid has four children.

The assets of the Mittelsten Scheid family were estimated in October 2013 in the special edition of the manager magazine “ List of the 500 richest Germans ” at 1.4 billion euros. The family reached number 87.

Publications (selection)

  • The partition of India. On the two-nation theory . Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1970;
  • Thoughts on the family business , Poeschel, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 978-3-7910-0385-6 .
  • The entrepreneurs of the Mittelsten Scheid family 1764–2004 , Vorwerk & Co. KG., Wuppertal 2004;
  • The diversified family holding company: Family businesses are changing - and with them the advisory boards . In: Christoph Achenbach , Frederik Gottschalck (Hrsg.): The advisory board in the middle class. Experience reports from practice . Fachverlag of the Handelsblatt publishing group, Düsseldorf 2012, pp. 39–48, ISBN 978-3-942543-28-6 .
  • Powder keg Pakistan. A threat to global peace? Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89479-808-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about Eurochambres on the website of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry , accessed on October 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ The Enterprise Policy Group advises the European Commission on issues affecting companies and industrial policy . See the keywords on the website of the European Commission , accessed on October 14, 2016.
  3. ↑ Life data of Werner Mittelsten Scheid based on Bergischer Datenpool 27 , accessed on October 14, 2016.
  4. ↑ Thorsten Breitkopf: Success stays in the family . In: Rheinische Post from December 20, 2010.
  5. ↑ Helge Pross : The spirit of the entrepreneur. 100 years of Vorwerk & Co. 1883–1983 . Claasen Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, p. 168. ISBN 3-546-47589-5 .
  6. ↑ Stefanie Scharbau: Committed to tradition . In: Handelsblatt from November 28, 2002. Online as Stefanie Scharbau: Jörg Mittelsten Scheid: Committed to tradition. (No longer available online.) In: karriere.de. November 28, 2002, archived from the original on May 25, 2018 ; accessed on October 14, 2016 . 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. Georg Weishaupt: Time for a revolution. In: Handelsblatt. November 1, 2005, accessed October 14, 2016 . T. Kewes, C. Nesshöver: The family manager. How Jörg Mittelsten Scheid once stunned India's Prime Minister Nehru and transformed the traditional Vorwerk brand into a global corporation . In: Handelsblatt from May 19, 2006. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.karriere.de
  7. ↑ Stefanie Scharbau: Committed to tradition . In: Handelsblatt from November 28, 2002. Online as Stefanie Scharbau: Jörg Mittelsten Scheid: Committed to tradition. (No longer available online.) In: karriere.de. November 28, 2002, archived from the original on May 25, 2018 ; accessed on October 14, 2016 . 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.karriere.de
  8. ↑ Tanja Kewes: On the suction track. In: Handelsblatt. October 4, 2005, accessed October 15, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Sandra Waglerova: Dr. Mittelsten Scheid celebrated his 70th birthday . In: Textilwirtschaft, May 11, 2006.
  10. ↑ Brigitte Koch: Jörg Mittelsten Scheid - Successful against the trend . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 7, 2003.
  11. ↑ Lothar Leuschen: Direct sales are his secret of success . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (complete edition) of May 7, 2016. Stefanie Scharbau: Committed to tradition . In: Handelsblatt from November 28, 2002. Online as Stefanie Scharbau: Jörg Mittelsten Scheid: Committed to tradition. (No longer available online.) In: karriere.de. November 28, 2002, archived from the original on May 25, 2018 ; accessed on October 14, 2016 . 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.karriere.de
  12. ↑ Mr. Vorwerk is 75 years old . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (complete edition) of May 7, 2011.
  13. ↑ C. Schlautmann: Cosmetics beautify Vorwerk's balance sheet . In: Handelsblatt from June 14, 2006.
  14. ^ ML Cohen, Helga Schier (update): Vorwerk & Co. KG . In: International Directory of Company Histories , Vol. 112, St. James Press, Detroit, New York [et al. a.] 2010, pp. 475-479, here p. 477, ISBN 978-1-55862-775-8 .
  15. ↑ Peter Lausmann: Pakistan's political situation is fatal, but at least stable ; about the person [by Jörg Mittelsten Scheid]. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (complete edition) of June 7, 2013.
  16. ↑ "We could be further" . In: Wirtschaftswoche No. 39 of September 24, 2012. Klaus Koch: Change: Vorwerk appoints new management bodies . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (Wuppertal edition) of February 9, 2013. Dieter Fockenbrock: Forward with Vorwerk . In: Handelsblatt of May 12, 2014. Lothar Leuschen: Direct sales are his secret of success . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (complete edition) of May 7, 2016.
  17. ↑ Hagen Seidel: Quite directly. In: The world . September 11, 2004, accessed October 15, 2016 . Thorsten Breitkopf: Vorwerk: the representative brand . In: Rheinische Post from July 31, 2008. Ursula Schwarzer: Unguter Geist . In: Manager Magazin No. 12 from November 19, 2010. Dieter Fockenbrock: Forward with Vorwerk . In: Handelsblatt of May 12, 2014. Lothar Leuschen: Leadership - Dr. Jörg teaches how to do it at the university . Westdeutsche Zeitung (Wuppertal edition), December 6, 2016.
  18. ↑ Dr. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid - 65 years old. In: DVZ No. 60 from May 19, 2001. Peter Lausmann: Pakistan's political situation is fatal, but stable ; about the person [by Jörg Mittelsten Scheid]. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (complete edition) of June 7, 2013.
  19. ↑ Dr. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid - 65 years old. In: DVZ No. 60 from May 19, 2001. Dr. Mittelsten Scheid is celebrating his 70th birthday . In: Textilwirtschaft No. 19 of May 11, 2006.
  20. ↑ a b Jörg Mittelsten Scheid in the Munzinger archive , accessed on January 4, 2019 ( beginning of article freely available)
  21. ↑ Acting for the future. 8th party congress of the CDU in Germany. 20.-22. October 1996. Hanover. Report of the federal office. Annex to the report of the Secretary General . P. 7 f., Accessed on October 16, 2016.
  22. ↑ Information on this state working group ( memento from December 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the ihk-nrw.de website, accessed on October 16, 2016.
  23. ↑ See General-Anzeiger (Bonner Stadtausgabe) of February 3, 1997, p. 14. Also: names . In: Handelsblatt of February 13, 1997.
  24. ↑ Chambers of Commerce . In: DVZ No. 41 of April 5, 2001. Dr. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid - 65 years old. In: DVZ No. 60 from May 19, 2001.
  25. ↑ Personal details . In: Wiesbadener Kurier of July 4, 1998. Names . In: Handelsblatt of July 6, 1998. Mittelsten Scheid, head of the Eurochambres . In: Textilwirtschaft No. 28 of July 9, 1998. Names and News - Politics . In: Impulse No. 8 from August 1, 1998.
  26. ↑ Christoph Leitl heads Eurochambres . In: DVZ No. 135 of November 10, 2001.
  27. ↑ Names . In: Industrieanzeiger , Issue 21 1998. Chambers of Commerce . In: DVZ of September 17, 1998.
  28. ↑ Backstage. We asked Dr. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid . In: Creditreform No. 10 of October 1, 2005.
  29. ↑ Brigitte Koch: The high equity also gives Vorwerk scope for big plans . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 2, 1995.
  30. ^ Rectorate of the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) Munich (Ed. :): The University Council. Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. 1999–2007 p. 26 f, accessed on October 16, 2016. Backstage. We asked Dr. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid . In: Creditreform No. 10 of October 1, 2005.
  31. ↑ 2006 members of the jury ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Accessed on October 17, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutscher-unternehmer-preis.de
  32. ↑ Information about this award ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the award website, accessed October 17, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutscher-unternehmer-preis.de
  33. ↑ Bert Fröndhoff: entrepreneurs with courage and vision . In: Handelsblatt dated November 27, 2006.
  34. ↑ For this initiative, see the relevant information ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Institute for Educational Research at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, accessed on October 16, 2016. Prize for more learning friends . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (Wuppertal edition) from May 12, 2010. Competition - more joy in learning . In: Rheinische Post from May 12, 2010. 6000 euros for local high school students . In: Bergische Morgenpost from November 4, 2014. 15,000 euros for more joy in learning . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (Wuppertal edition) of November 7, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifb.uni-wuppertal.de
  35. ↑ Internship abroad . In: Lausitzer Rundschau from June 28, 1997. Money for stays abroad. CDG offers grants for internships and study periods . In: Der Tagesspiegel from June 29, 1997.
  36. ↑ New penguin enclosure: Large train station in the zoo . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (Wuppertal edition) of March 24, 2009. New penguin facility in Wuppertal . In: Rheinische Post from March 24, 2009. A tunnel for penguins . In: Rheinische Post from March 24, 2009. Move of the year . In: Rheinische Post from December 31, 2009.
  37. ↑ See the information on this competition for 2015 ( memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on the website of the historic town hall Wuppertal , accessed on October 16, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadthalle.de
  38. ↑ Valeska von Dolega: Award-winning: personalities on the organ . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (Wuppertal edition) from September 20, 2010. Wuppertal music summer with talents from all over the world . In: Bergische Morgenpost (Remscheid edition) of August 23, 2013. Hartmut Sassenhausen: Three worthy winners . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (Wuppertal edition) from September 1, 2015.
  39. ↑ Information about the venue on the website of the city of Wuppertal, accessed on October 16, 2016.
  40. ^ Final spurt for the Theater am Engelsgarten . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of September 23, 2014.
  41. ↑ Lothar Leuschen: Why a Wuppertal entrepreneur turns his back on the CDU . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . January 21, 2016 ( wz.de [accessed January 5, 2017]).
  42. ↑ At the university a “Dr. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid Visiting Professorship ”. Dr. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid donates on the occasion of his 80th birthday. In: Press release from the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. June 1, 2016, accessed October 16, 2016 . Lothar Leuschen: A million dollar gift for Wuppertal . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (Wuppertal edition) from June 1, 2016.
  43. ↑ a b Dr. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid - 65 years old . In: DVZ No. 60 from May 19, 2001.
  44. ↑ Dr. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid - 65 years old . In: DVZ No. 60 from May 19, 2001. Reception . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of May 12, 2011.
  45. ↑ Dr. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid - 65 years old . In: DVZ No. 60 from May 19, 2001. Ring of Honor of the City of Wuppertal . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of February 17, 2015.
  46. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. (PDF) State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
  47. ↑ Names . In: Industrieanzeiger , Heft 21, 1998. Cross of Merit for Jörg Mittelsten Scheid . In: Textilwirtschaft No. 21 of May 21, 1998.
  48. ↑ List of the honored persons on the website stadtverband-wuppertal.de , accessed on October 17, 2016.
  49. ↑ Honorary doctorate Dr. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid , press release from the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, accessed on October 17, 2016.
  50. ↑ Information about the honorary citizens of Wuppertal since 1945 ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Accessed on October 17, 2016. Reception . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (Wuppertal edition) from May 12, 2011. Wuppertal's honorary citizen . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (Wuppertal edition) of March 29, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wuppertal.de
  51. ↑ Vorwerk boss Mittelsten Scheid receives the Diesel medal. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. November 29, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2016 .
  52. ↑ Vivica Charlotte Natalie Gräfin zu Stolberg-Wernigerode on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 18, 2016..
  53. ↑ Georg Weishaupt: Time for a revolution. In: Handelsblatt. November 1, 2005, accessed October 14, 2016 .
  54. ^ The 500 richest Germans , Manager Magazin -Special Issue, October 2013, p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Mittelsten Scheid, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal