Jost Stollmann

Stollmann (* 17th January 1955 in Dusseldorf ) is a German entrepreneur , who through media appearances and a member of the SPD - campaign team in 1998 to a wider public became known.

education and profession

Stollmann graduated from high school in Düren in 1973 . He then went to the Bundeswehr and began his studies in 1974. In 1976 he received a diploma from the Universitaires Générales, Faculté de Droit, Université d ' Aix-en-Provence , and in 1979 a science diploma from the Institut des Sciences Politiques in Paris . He received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in Boston in 1981 .

From 1981 to 1984 he worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in Chicago . 1984 he founded in Cologne the CompuNet Computer Vertriebs-GmbH , whose Managing Director he was until 1988, after which he was the meantime in a to 1997 in this company Aktiengesellschaft was converted, the spokesman of the board. He was also President of General Electric Capital Services Information Technology Solutions' European subsidiary from 1996 to 1997 . He left the company at his own request because he said he wanted to think and develop new ideas. In 1997 he founded create.it services AG, where he was also the spokesman for the management board until autumn 1997.

Public performances

Stollmann is considered a successful manager. CompuNet AG , which he founded in mid-1984, had a turnover of 884 million euros in 1997. A year earlier he had been able to sell the company to the largest American electrical company, General Electric . The sale made him a millionaire and interesting for the media. He took advantage of this interest and gave numerous interviews to business magazines during this period. In it he turned against, as he called it, “professional pessimists” who would go from one talk show to the next and talk the German economy to pieces. At the time, the trade magazine Econy counted him among the “managers who leave secure jobs behind and dare to do new things”.

Since he had no professional obligations from October 1997, he pursued the idea of ​​bringing up children with the help of computers in a kind of community of interest, action and commercial communities. He also received support from his wife, who believed that every child should have their own laptop . He also called for students, science and companies to be interlinked, so that the economy could ultimately be positively influenced by the establishment of new companies. He also wanted to redefine the term “independence”, hoping for new initiatives and greater personal responsibility for the individual with statements such as “Everyone will be his own entrepreneur”. In an interview he said that in the future it would be a question of throwing the “ fully comprehensive mentality ” and “social benefits” overboard.

1998 - Federal Minister of Economics in Schröder's shadow cabinet

Through his statements, the SPD became aware of Stollmann in 1998 and finally presented him as a member of Gerhard Schröder's shadow cabinet for the 1998 federal election . In the event of an election victory, it was planned that Stollmann should take over the post of Federal Minister of Economics . Stollmann, who was a CDU member until 1987 , when he agreed to the SPD, primarily had the realization of his ideas in mind, but less of party-political ambitions. After the election, through which the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen took over government, he ultimately did not take up the post he was supposed to be. It was stated that the cause of this was a dispute over competences with the then SPD chairman Oskar Lafontaine , who became finance minister in the Schröder cabinet . Instead, Werner Müller, who was also non-party, took over the post of Minister of Economics .

After 1998

After the general election, Stollmann retired into private life and later started a two-year circumnavigation. In 2004 he settled in Sydney , Australia , where he managed the company "Tyro" for payment systems.

family

Stollmann is married, has five children and is an avowed Catholic.

Quotes

• "Now we have to finally set the signal: The Germans are leaving. I always have to travel to America to find out what the future is like. I would like Americans to travel to us." Spiegel interview summer 1998

• "Our country is good for success. Let's do it" Stollmann on his 1998 website

• "I was not asked of him" - the question the magazine " Stern ", why does not he as a former CDU member of the government Kohl have listened

• "A dramatic restructuring in all areas of society is overdue: in the civil service, the social and health system and in education."

• "I think it's good that the Chancellor has persistently pursued Agenda 2010. I also liked the idea of giving Peter Hartz , also an outsider, the chance to draft such a reform. The result is catastrophic; the amateurism of implementation. " In an interview with Stern in the summer of 2005.

Awards

• 1990: "Euro-Entrepreneur of the Year 1990"
• 1994: "Global Leader of Tomorrow" in the World Economic Forum, Davos

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Ganz-der-Neue-Der-Minister-for-Tomorrow-3411661.html
2. ↑ http://www.taz.de/1/politik/deutschland/artikel/1/stars-von-draussen/
3. ↑ Barbara Bierach In Sydney: Jost Stollmann is back - in Australia. In: welt.de . September 28, 2008, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
4. ↑ That's all old thinking . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1998 ( online ).
5. ↑ http://www.stern.de/lifestyle/wissenschaften/:Was-...Jost-Stollmann/542642.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article on stern.de, summer 2005  

Web links

• jost-stollmann.de
• www.tyro.com
• Portrait of the entrepreneur Jost Stollmann (brand eins, 11/2012)