Manuela Rousseau

Manuela Rousseau (2019)

Manuela Rousseau (* 1955 in Neumünster ) is a German supervisory board member , professor and book author . She is considered an expert in fundraising .

family

Rousseau was born the daughter of a train driver and a seamstress . During her childhood she lived with her grandparents for a while.

Rousseau is married to Hans-Jürgen Schriever. The couple lives in Hamburg.

career

After completing secondary school , Rousseau completed an apprenticeship as a retail saleswoman and from 1974 initially worked for Ernst Brinkmann in Hamburg. Together with two partners, she founded a 1,979 retailers for consumer electronics . This meanwhile had more than two dozen employees and three branches, but ran into difficulties after a few years. As a result, Rousseau began a traineeship in public relations for Teldec Records in 1982 .

In 1984 Rousseau finally came to Beiersdorf , where she initially worked as a buyer for laboratory chemicals before moving to communications at the consumer goods company. There she held various positions and rose to deputy group spokeswoman . Rousseau later took over the management of the newly established Corporate Social Responsibility department .

In 1994, Rousseau applied for a mandate on the Beiersdorf Supervisory Board for the first time , lost the election and was elected to the supervisory body by his colleagues at the second attempt in 1999. In 2009 she also joined the supervisory board of Maxingvest , the holding company for Beiersdorf and Tchibo . In 2019, Manuela Rousseau was confirmed for a fifth term on the Beiersdorf Supervisory Board and shortly afterwards became the first woman to be elected deputy chairwoman of the board.

In addition to her work for Beiersdorf, Rousseau worked as a journalist , including as a freelance editor for the Hamburg local editorial team of the Bild newspaper. She also taught as a lecturer in the course culture and media management at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . She was later appointed professor with a focus on fundraising, management and public relations. Examples of her social commitment are her commitment to the associations “New Generation” and “Save the Nikolaikirche”. She is also a member of the advisory boards of the Hamburger Universitätsgesellschaft and the Hamburger Kunsthalle as well as the board of trustees of the Randstad Foundation.

In addition, Rousseau has been campaigning for women in leadership for many years, including by supporting the initiative women on supervisory boards and as a member of Zonta International , a global association of working women in responsible positions.

Awards

• 1999: Medal of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2002: Vogue Business “100 Top Business Women”
• 2008: Hall of Fame of Sponsorship

Publications

• If you want to enjoy your worth, you must give value to the world . In: Stephanie Unger (Ed.): Trust is good: Values ​​in crisis or a crisis of values? Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch , Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-89981-207-7 .
• We need women who dare . Ariston Verlag , Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-424-20200-7 .

Web links

Commons : Manuela Rousseau  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about Manuela Rousseau in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Manuela Rousseau
• Interviews with BR2 , SWR1 and WDR5 (each audio)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Supervisory Board. Beiersdorf, accessed April 23, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Supervisory Board. Maxingvest, accessed April 23, 2019 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} Prof. Manuela Rousseau. Hamburg University of Music and Drama, December 28, 2011, accessed on April 23, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Manuela Rousseau. Random House Publishing Group, Retrieved April 23, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Martin Ax: “The economy still has to learn a lot” . In: The world . September 3, 2001, p. 43 .
6. ^ Jürgen Hoffmann: Culture sponsoring to maintain the image . In: The world . December 29, 2011, p. 35 .
7. ↑ Rudi Novotny: "I thought to myself: When I cry, I use clichés" . In: The time . No. 19 , 2019 ( zeit.de [accessed on May 27, 2020] interview).
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Sabine Stamer: Failure as an impetus to success . In: The world . May 21, 2016, p. 35 ( welt.de [accessed April 23, 2019]).
9. ^ ^{A b c} Bettina Dornberg: Corporate Social Rousseau . In: Marketing . No. 10 , 2012 ( bettinadornberg.de [PDF; accessed on April 23, 2019]).
10. ↑ Simone Salden: Manuela Rousseau: "Women should stop baking cakes". In: Spiegel Online. April 19, 2019, accessed April 23, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Discretion and staying power . In: The time . 2007.
12. ^ Name compact . In: The world . July 8, 1999, p. 38 (Hamburg Economy).
13. ↑ "At first I am inferior to a man" . Manuela Rousseau, Beiersdorf. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . November 15, 2009, p. 40 .
14. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Eckardt: Equality: Young female elite in the fast lane. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. April 26, 2019, accessed May 2, 2019 . 
15. ^ Doris Brückner: Manuela Rousseau: A glass of sparkling wine and an order for culture . In: Hamburger Morgenpost . August 20, 1999.
16. ↑ Advisory Board. Hamburger Universitätsgesellschaft, accessed on May 2, 2019 . 
17. ↑ About the Kunsthalle. Hamburger Kunsthalle, accessed on May 2, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Committees. Randstad Foundation, accessed May 2, 2019 . 
19. ↑ Manuela Rousseau: "Courage is back in". In: Harvard Business Manager. January 13, 2020, accessed May 27, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Prof. Manuela Rousseau. Women on the Supervisory Boards, accessed April 23, 2019 . 
21. ^ Carolin Lafrenz: Award for Manuela Rousseau . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . August 20, 1999, p. 14 .
22. ↑ Equal rights at management level: “Women must enjoy competition”. In: Tagesschau. March 8, 2011, accessed May 2, 2019 . 
23. ↑ Klaus Witzeling: Culture woman beats sports men by lengths . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . January 16, 2008, p. 7 .