Joachim Hunold

Joachim Hunold (2019)

Joachim Hunold (born September 5, 1949 in Düsseldorf ) is a German entrepreneur and chairman of the investment company Rantum Capital . He also works as a simple member of the Board of Directors of Air Berlin PLC. On August 18, 2011, he resigned his position as Chief Executive Officer of the airline, which was in financial difficulties, and proposed his confidante Hartmut Mehdorn as his successor.

Life

After graduation in 1970 he studied ten years Jura without completing the course. During this time Hunold worked as a roadie for the band About Five , whose singer was Marius Müller-Westernhagen . Since 1978 he worked, first as a baggage handler and finally as deputy station manager, for the airline Braathens Air Transport at Düsseldorf Airport . In 1982 he moved to the sales department of LTU and left it after five more years as marketing and sales director of the entire LTU group in 1990 in a dispute with the LTU major shareholder WestLB . In 1991, he founded Air Berlin GmbH & Co. Luftverkehrs-KG and thus took over the American Air Berlin Inc. Up until this point in time, the airline from the US state of Oregon had carried passengers to and from Berlin. Initially, Hunold managed the company as a managing partner; From January 1, 2006 to August 18, 2011 he was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Air Berlin PLC.

Hunold is divorced and has three sons and a daughter.

Entrepreneur

In the spring of 1992 the first flight of the German Air Berlin took off from Berlin-Tegel to Palma de Mallorca . At that time the company owned two aircraft and had 150 employees; later there were 151 aircraft and over 8,300 employees. With 28.2 million passengers carried, Air Berlin was the second largest German airline after Lufthansa in 2007 .

Air Berlin achieved a turnover of 2.54 billion euros in 2007 and was floated on the stock exchange in mid-2006. Hunold was President of the BDF from June 2003 to August 2005 .

On February 4, 2007, in an interview with Wirtschaftswoche magazine, Hunold threatened to close down the now former Air Berlin subsidiary dba if its pilots went on strike against a worsening of their working conditions.

In June 2007, both Air Berlin's offices and Joachim Hunold's private rooms were searched by the police. Numerous files were confiscated. The accusation of the Stuttgart public prosecutor was insider trading . The proceedings against him and four other people were discontinued because, according to the investigating public prosecutor, the suspicion had "not been confirmed with the certainty necessary to bring charges".

On August 18, 2011, he announced that he would step down as CEO of Air Berlin on September 1, 2011 due to poor business figures, and Hartmut Mehdorn became the new CEO of Air Berlin as his successor .

Awards

On February 3, 2007, Joachim Hunold was the 57th “knight” to receive the medal against seriousness in Aachen as the 57th “knight” in Aachen, in recognition of the fact that “there are still men today who have the courage to be a guy”. The award and its reasons, but above all the course of the meeting, were highly controversial. For critics, it was a pure advertising event for Hunold's company. This led to personnel consequences within the organizing carnival club. The main sponsor, Zentis , withdrew, and ARD was considering withdrawing from broadcasting the meeting. This almost meant the end of the event.

At the end of December 2007, the Naturschutzbund Deutschland awarded Joachim Hunold the negative award for Dinosaur of the Year as Germany's greatest polluter. Among other things, he was accused of deceiving the public and selling the aircraft as a climate-friendly means of transport. Hunold replied that he considered trading in air pollution rights , so-called CO ₂ certificates, to be more productive than a voluntary surcharge on flight tickets in favor of climate protection projects.

Web links

• Joachim Hunold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Portrait of Joachim Hunold in the business magazine Capital

Individual evidence

1. ^ Team Rantum Capital . ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2013 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.  
2. ^ Resignation of Joachim Hunold as CEO and appointment of Hartmut Mehdorn as interim CEO . ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2011 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. Air Berlin, ad hoc announcement, August 18, 2011 
3. ↑ Joachim Hunold offers to step down as CEO . ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2011 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. Air Berlin, ad hoc announcement 
4. ↑ Hannes Rossacher: The best in the west , part 4/4
5. ↑ Justice closes proceedings against Air Berlin . In: Tagesspiegel -Online , accessed November 8, 2008
6. ↑ Air Berlin boss Hunold free from the suspicion of insider trading . AFP Agence France-Presse via 123recht.net, accessed November 8, 2008