Michael Stoschek

Michael Stoschek (born December 11, 1947 in Coburg ) is a German entrepreneur as well as partner and chairman of the shareholders' meeting of Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG. From January 2007 to June 2008 he was President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Coburg .

Life

family

Stoschek was born as the son of Walter Stoschek, who was then director of the Coburg State Theater . His mother Christa was an actress and the youngest daughter of the company's founder, Max Brose . After starting a commercial training in the family-owned company and an apprenticeship at Siemens , Stoschek took over the management of the family company with 1,000 employees and a turnover of 50 million DM from his aunt Gisela in 1971 at the age of 23. At the end of 2005, with a turnover of 2.2 billion euros and 9,000 employees, he handed over the management to Jürgen Otto, a manager outside the owner family, under whom Brose grew to 6.3 billion euros in turnover with 23,000 employees until he left the company at the end of 2017. In 2005 and 2014 he was voted family entrepreneur of the year.

Michael Stoschek has been married since 1972 and is the father of daughter Julia Stoschek and son Maximilian.

Extra-professional engagement

As an honorary citizen of his place of residence Ahorn, he built and maintains a community center and two houses for children and young people there. Since leaving the Evangelical Church in 1974, he has financed the charitable purposes with the no longer payable church tax . The reason was the church tax claim on undistributed profits of the Brose company, which was a partnership at the time.

In Bamberg , Stoschek is chairman of the board of trustees of the World Heritage Foundation. In 2004 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class . On July 29, 2010 he received the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Although the rally driver Stoschek took the mayor of Coburg, Norbert Kastner, with him as copilot in his car in 2001 , a tense relationship with the mayor of Coburg developed in the following years. Points of conflict included the renaming of “Von-Schultes-Straße” to “Max-Brose-Straße”, which was rejected by the city council majority in 2004, as well as the welcome sign attached by Brose to the Coburg Südkreisel. Also initiated by Stoschek in 2006 New downtown concept led to heated discussions with the mayor.

After a devastating fire in Coburg's old town on Whitsun 2012, Stoschek and his sister Christine Volkmann provided five million euros in immediate aid to alleviate the consequences.

In spring 2007 he was unanimously elected President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Coburg, an office that his grandfather held from 1935 to 1943, but in June 2008 Stoschek resigned as President of the Chamber of Commerce. He justified his resignation, among other things, with the re-election of Kastner as Coburg Lord Mayor. Stoschek's successor is his former deputy Friedrich Herdan.

In 2007 the CSU member donated 100,000 euros to his party.

Sports

Sport is another focus of Stoschek. He was several times Bavarian champion in show jumping and won a passionate rally driver 2006, the historic rally European Championship with a Porsche 911 S built in 1972 . In addition, his company has been supporting Brose Bamberg as main sponsor since 2006 , after it withdrew from sponsoring the Coburg handball club HSC 2000 Coburg . Brose also sponsors HC Erlangen and the BBC Coburg . (Status: 2017)

New Stratos at the Geneva Motor Show 2018

In 2008 Michael Stoschek and his son Maximilian developed the New Stratos, a throwback to and reinterpretation of the Lancia Stratos HF from the 1970s. Built as a one-off piece, there was always talk of series production. The production version was finally presented at the 88th Geneva Motor Show in March 2018. A small series is to be created using existing design specifications and techniques.