Manfred Hell

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Manfred Hell (born August 30, 1956 in Prüm ) is a German entrepreneur and sports official. From 1994 to 2011 he was CEO of the outdoor company Jack Wolfskin .

life and career

Hell grew up in the Eifel and after graduating from high school in 1977 began studying German, English and comparative literature at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn .

Before submitting his doctoral thesis on Alfred Döblin , he broke off his studies in 1985 and financed his life as a salesman in a specialist mountaineering shop in Bonn. This belonged to Ulrich Dausien , who founded Wolfskin in 1981. Dausien brought Manfred Hell to the company headquarters in Frankfurt in 1988. There he was employed as a director for export; whereby the export still had to be built up. Hell founded their license business u. a. with Japan, Great Britain and Switzerland.

After Jack Wolfskin was sold to a US textile company (Johnson Outdoors) in 1991, Hell became managing director there in 1994. In the following years he acquired company shares himself from 2002 and expanded strongly with franchisees . After several changes of ownership, Hell was one of three owners of the company since 2005; besides him, two private equity firms were involved. In the course of the renewed sale of Jack Wolfskin to the investment company Blackstone in 2011, Manfred Hell left the company.

Gallery owner, development worker and football official

In addition to his work in the outdoor industry, Hell runs a gallery. There are u. a. Works by his friend Wolfgang Niedecken exhibited. Niedeckens band BAP cooperated with Jack Wolfskin as sponsor of tours. Together with the children's aid organization World Vision and Wolfgang Niedecken, Manfred Hell founded the child protection project Rebound to rehabilitate former child soldiers in Uganda . The long-time fan of the Bundesliga soccer club 1. FC Köln has been a sponsor there for years and was temporarily a member of the supervisory board of the 1. FC Köln GmbH & Co. KGaA. At the beginning of 2012 Hell was shortlisted as a candidate for the vacant position of FC club president, but after some deliberations he declared that he was not available for this office. After the constitutional reform in 2013, he was appointed to the newly created advisory board of the association.

For some time now, Hell has been the chairman of Hertha Bonn 1918 eV, a football club in the Dottendorf district of Bonn .

Private

Hell describes himself as a “conservative Greens”. He lives in Bonn, is married and has a son and a daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Hell in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ Jack Wolfskin: The Wolf Man ; Stern online from December 13, 2008
  3. ^ Jack Wolfskin boss - Manfred Hell, the mountaineer ; FAS online from May 1, 2008
  4. ↑ Outdoor outfitter changes hands - Blackstone buys Jack Wolfskin ; tagesschau.de from July 21, 2011 ( Memento from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Jack Wolfskin: Rebound - Help for former child soldiers in Uganda ; worldvision.de ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.worldvision.de
  6. ↑ Desired candidate Hell cancels the FC ; Express.de from February 28, 2012
  7. ↑ Committees of the 1st FC Cologne at www.fc-koeln.de, accessed on February 6, 2014
  8. ^ FC Hertha Bonn: Board of Directors - FC Hertha Bonn 1918 eV . In: herthabonn.de . FC Hertha Bonn 1918 eV. Archived from the original on May 8, 2015. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
  9. ↑ Interview with the company boss - Why do so many townspeople wear Wolfskin clothes? ; Welt Online from July 10, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Hell, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Prüm