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Leopold Stiefel (born February 19, 1945 in Braunau am Inn , Austria ) is a leading founder of the Media Markt electronics chain and is a German entrepreneur and was most recently a minority owner of the Media-Saturn Holding with 2.97% .

Professional background

After graduating from elementary school in 1959, Stiefel completed an apprenticeship as a retail salesman at the Ingolstadt electrical trading company Dreyer & Schnetzer, where he worked as a salesman from 1960. From 1964 to 1968 he was consultant and department manager at J. Fröschl & Co . He then worked for the Ingolstadt-based company FEG Kellerhals, a specialist retailer for television and electrical appliances with five branches, and rose to become managing director and partner there in 1979 when Media Markt was founded .

Together with the FEG owner Erich Kellerhals, in his time at FEG Kellerhals, in which the then new self-service department stores successfully pushed into the market and specialist dealers took market shares, he developed the concept for a large-scale electronics store, which was initially ridiculed even by the banks urban outskirts. Back then, the industry was characterized by small specialist dealers with a manageable selection, including FEG Kellerhals at the time. In 1979, together with the married couple Helga and Erich Kellerhals , who had been trading oil stoves, electrical appliances and bicycles in Ingolstadt since 1963, and with the advertising specialist and former Karstadt employee Walter Gunz, the first Media Markt was founded and opened in Munich .

On December 31, 2006, he resigned as managing director of Media-Saturn-Holding for health reasons , but was subsequently given a consultancy contract until the end of 2008. Bootel's relationship with the Kellerhals and Walter Gunz is now considered tense.

In 2011, Stiefel, together with Erich Kellerhals, filed a lawsuit against Metro AG , which is the main owner of Media-Saturn-Holding with around 75% . The Metro AG proposed by a newly established advisory board to overturn the blocking minority, which attributable to the two founders, despite minority interest due to the shareholder agreements.

In January 2013, Leopold Stiefel announced that his family was selling their share to Metro AG. The purchase price was around EUR 230 million.

Social and political engagement

For the CSU , Stiefel was a member of the Ingolstadt city ​​council from May 1, 2002 to April 30, 2014 .

Stiefel is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of ERC Ingolstadt Eishockeyclub GmbH, which organizes the ERC Ingolstadt's league operations , and is the Vice President of the Lions Club Ingolstadt.

Family and private

Stiefel was born in Braunau am Inn as the child of a family fleeing Yugoslavia in the chaos of war and came to the Ingolstadt area in 1951, where he has lived since then. Among his four siblings is another entrepreneur, his younger brother Heinrich (born in 1949), who owns the Stiefel Eurocart company.

Stiefel is married and has three children (Christian Stiefel, Michael Stiefel and Meike Stiefel). Since the separation from his third wife Marion, Mr. Stiefel has been with Mrs. Pia Stiefel, née. Marx married.

His hobbies include collecting Ferraris , driving a Harley-Davidson and playing golf. He also has a great passion for the ERC Ingolstadt.

Awards

• 2008: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

• 2016: Honorary citizen of the city of Ingolstadt

Web links

• ingolstadt.de: Memberships as city council
• brand eins 4/2005: They are not stupid; And other reasons for the incredible success of Media Markt
• Welt am Sonntag: The father of all profits
• Süddeutsche Zeitung: Who cares for the good numbers at Media-Saturn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ csu-ingolstadt.de, csu-ingolstadt.de Information about Leopold Stiefel with a short résumé from the Donaukurier ( memento of the original from March 31, 2002 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. 
2. ↑ Media-Saturn co-founder sold to Metro. Retrieved February 13, 2013 . 
3. ↑ duesseldorf-blog.de, The ten richest Düsseldorfer ( memento of the original from January 9, 2011 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. 
4. ↑ stern.de The electric shocker
5. ↑ donaukurier.de Entrepreneur Leopold Stiefel: I have the right idea
6. ↑ channelpartner.de, Leopold Stiefel goes ( memento of the original from November 2, 2013 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. 
7. ↑ manager-magazin.de, Der Panzerleutnant
8. ↑ ftd.de, Walter Gunz and Leopold Stiefel - Geiler Aufstieg ( Memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
9. ↑ donaukurier.de: Who is in power at Media Saturn?
10. ↑ Media-Saturn co-founder sold to Metro. Retrieved February 13, 2013 . 
11. ↑ ingolstadt.de, Membership in scientific bodies
12. ↑ lions.de, Lionsjahr 2008/2009 event program, 2nd half year  ( 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.  
13. ↑ handelsblatt.com, "Smile more than others!"
14. ↑ stiefel-online.de, About us
15. ↑ movendi.de, Media Markt co-founder Leopold Stiefel celebrates his retreat ( memento of the original from January 25, 2011 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. (PDF; 528 kB) 
16. ↑ focus.de, That would have been your price!
17. ↑ donaukurier.de, February 8, 2008, Federal Cross of Merit for Leopold Stiefel