Klaus Wiegandt

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Klaus Wiegandt (* 1939 in Stettin ) is a former German manager . He was CEO of Metro AG until 1998 and founded the Forum for Responsibility Foundation in 2000.

biography

Wiegandt grew up in Hameln . After studying at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics , he worked in various companies. In 1976 he became general representative of the Rewe Leibbrand Group . From 1991 to 1995 he was chairman of the board of Asko AG. After the merger of Asko with Metro / Kaufhof, he became spokesman for the board of the new major Metro AG .

At the age of 60, Wiegandt resigned as chairman of the board, founded the Forum for Responsibility Foundation in 2000 and is involved in the sustainability debate . Every year from 2002 to 2012 and in 2014, the foundation organized a scientific colloquium, the contributions of which were published in a book series Courage for Sustainability by S. Fischer Verlag , which was edited by Wiegandt . The foundation has been holding a colloquium for young scientists since 2012. To this end, the foundation supports projects in the areas of forest protection , renaturation and reforestation . Since 2013, the foundation has been awarding the “Courage for Sustainability” prize together with Zeit Wissen .

Wiegandt is closely associated with the Asko Europa Foundation and the European Academy Otzenhausen .

Books

  • Harald Welzer , Klaus Wiegandt (Ed.): Ways out of the growth society . 2nd Edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3596196166 .
  • Harald Welzer, Klaus Wiegandt (eds.): Perspectives for sustainable development: What will the world look like in 2050? 2nd Edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3596187942 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Wiegandt: From top manager to admonisher for sustainability . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , May 31, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Wiegandt: How it all began . In: Forum for Responsibility (Ed.): 15 Years Forum for Responsibility: From Evolution to Sustainability 2000 - 2015 . Seeheim-Jugenheim 2015, pp. 5–8, ISBN 978-3-9817112-0-2 .
  3. ^ Scientific Colloquia . In: Forum for Responsibility (Ed.): 15 Years Forum for Responsibility: From Evolution to Sustainability 2000 - 2015 . Seeheim-Jugenheim 2015, pp. 16-25, ISBN 978-3-9817112-0-2 .
  4. ^ Colloquia for young scientists . In: Responsibility Forum website, November 21, 2019.
  5. ↑ The refined CEO who wants to plant 350 billion trees. In: derStandard.at . April 9, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 (Austrian German).
  6. ↑ Position paper: Forests for the world. In: Forum for Responsibility. 2019, accessed on November 4, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ ZEIT WISSEN Prize Courage to Sustainability and Prize Winner . www.mut-zur-nachhaltigkeit.zeit.de. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  8. ↑ ZEIT-WISSEN Prize, Courage for Sustainability . In: Forum for Responsibility (Ed.): 15 Years Forum for Responsibility: From Evolution to Sustainability 2000 - 2015 . Seeheim-Jugenheim 2015, pp. 26–33., ISBN 978-3-9817112-0-2 .
  9. ↑ Article about Klaus Wiegandt at the FuturZwei Foundation.
personal data
SURNAME Wiegandt, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin