Klaus Steilmann

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Klaus Steilmann (2007)

Klaus Steilmann (born June 12, 1929 in Neustrelitz ; † November 14, 2009 in Bochum ) was a German textile entrepreneur. He became known to a wider public as the president of the SG Wattenscheid 09 football club .

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Steilmann was born as the son of an estate manager in Mecklenburg . After the war, he made up his Abitur in Berlin in 1951 . He also worked at C&A , where he did an apprenticeship as a retail salesman. From 1955 to 1957 he was deputy of the jacket manufacturer Josef Meyer. With a loan from C&A he founded Klaus Steilmann GmbH & Co. KG in Wattenscheid in 1958 and achieved a turnover of 7.2 million DM. The Steilmann Group developed into the largest textile company in Europe through the production of inexpensive fashion in the following decades. The Exquisit stores in the German Democratic Republic were also supplied. In 1988 he was also a member of the supervisory board of Etienne Aigner AG . In 1990 he was appointed head of the supervisory board of Kunststoffe, Leder, Pelze AG (KLP) in Leipzig by the Treuhandanstalt . From the beginning of the 1990s, however, the company came under strong competitive pressure due to globalization and as a result in economic distress, because Steilmann, against the advice of companions who described him as a humble old school patriarch, stuck to the more expensive production for too long due to his ties to the workforce held in Germany. In 1993 Steilmann also had production in the Ukraine and in 1994 in Vietnam . a. C&A and Peek & Cloppenburg . Steilmann gave up the management in 1999. In 2003 the Italian Radici Group joined the company. The bankruptcy could only be averted in October 2006 by the complete takeover of all Steilmann shares by Radici.

Steilmann wrote several papers on corporate governance. He was also the founder of the chair for environmental policy at the private University of Witten / Herdecke and a member of the Club of Rome .

As president of the soccer club SG Wattenscheid 09 he brought the Argentinian star Carlos Babington into the second division in 1974 and finally led the club into the Bundesliga in 1990 . In addition, athletes from TV Wattenscheid 01 athletics such as Michael Möllenbeck , Marc Blume and others were able to achieve medal ranks internationally thanks to his support. Steilmann was an avowed opponent of the incorporation of Wattenscheid in 1975 to Bochum and therefore drove a car with Essen license plates.

Together with his wife Ingrid he had three daughters: Britta Steilmann , Cornelia Steilmann and Ute Steilmann .

Fonts

  • System transformation from an entrepreneur's point of view. Practical steps for a new start to the market economy in Eastern Europe. 1993
  • From pillar thinking to networked thinking. 1994
  • Competition criticism from an entrepreneur's point of view: Successfully networking economy, environment and social issues. 1995
  • New philosophy of the company . 3 volumes in Russian, 1998/99
  • Rules for entrepreneurs. 1999

Awards and honors

Further awards and honors:

In 2001 the Olympic training center in Wattenscheid named its sports boarding school directly at the Lohrheidestadion in Wattenscheid with the name Klaus-Steilmann-Haus . The Klaus Steilmann Vocational College (formerly Commercial School 2) on Westenfelder Strasse in Wattenscheid was also named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gabor Steingart: “They want me out” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1991 ( online ).
  2. ↑ COMPANY: Chaos in the house . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1986 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Stefan Weber: Klaus Steilmann - fashion for millions, not for millionaires. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 17, 2010, accessed December 30, 2016 .
  4. ^ Brigitte Koch: Klaus Steilmann . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 16, 2009, p. 16.
  5. ↑ Walter Habel, Who is Who ?. Lübeck 1993.
  6. ↑ May 11, 1993: Honorary doctorate from the University of Witten / Herdecke awarded to Klaus Steilmann  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.uni-wh.de  
  7. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
  8. ↑ press release
  9. ↑ Obituary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine from November 18, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Steilmann, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and football official
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2009
Place of death Wattenscheid