Nikolaus Förster

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German printer and publisher of the same name, see Nicolaus Förster (1656 / 1657–1732).

Nikolaus Förster (born December 17, 1968 in Aachen ) is a German journalist, author and entrepreneur. Since 2009 he has been editor-in-chief of the business magazine Impulse and since 2013 managing partner of Impulse Medien GmbH.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1988 and two years of social work in London, Förster studied German literature, art history and musicology at the University of Bonn , where he did his doctorate on the "return of storytelling" . From 1992 to 1994 he completed an accompanying journalist training at the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (ifp) in Munich .

In 1999 he studied as a Press Fellow at the University of Cambridge and in the same year became a member of the development department of the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) in Hamburg. With the start of the FTD in February 2000, he first became a reporter and later comment chief; From 2002 he headed the “Agenda” department and was also responsible for the magazines “enable” and “medbiz” as well as the luxury magazine “How to spend it”. In 2007 he was a Bucerius Fellow at Harvard University and was selected by Medium Magazin as one of the top ten "Journalist of the Year" in the business category.

Purchase of the "Impulse" magazine

In March 2009, the Gruner + Jahr publishing management appointed him to succeed Ursula Weidenfeld as editor-in-chief of the monthly business magazine "Impulse". In his new position, Förster also became a member of the editors-in-chief of the G + J business media ( Capital , Impulse, Börse Online , FTD, Business Punk ).

After the publisher Gruner + Jahr announced in October 2012 that it would discontinue the FTD and all other business publications including "Impulse", Förster bought the monthly magazine from the major publisher and founded Impulse Medien GmbH on January 2, 2013 . He received financial support for the management buy-out (MBO) from the Hamburg businessman and real estate investor Dirk Möhrle, who was co-owner of the Max Bahr hardware store chain until 2005 . The new Impulse Medien GmbH employs around 30 people, including around 15 former employees from the editorial and publishing house of G + J Wirtschaftsmedien. With the impulse academy, the first subsidiary was founded, which Förster runs together with entrepreneur Stephan Kowalski.

Förster is married and has two children.

bibliography

• My biggest mistake: Confessions of successful entrepreneurs. impulse book, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-947212-00-2 .
  • extended and updated new edition, impulse book, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-947212-02-6 .
• My greatest opportunity: How mistakes get us ahead. impulse book, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-947212-01-9 .

Web links

• Homepage of the magazine "Impulse" and Impulse Medien GmbH

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Short CV of Nikolaus Förster , accessed on February 28, 2014.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Press release G + J Editor-in-Chief Impulse
3. ↑ "Signatures dry: Nikolaus Förster takes over business magazine 'Impulse'" Article in "newsroom" (January 9, 2013)
4. ↑ "Management buy-out - a special foundation requires a special business plan" Interview with Förster at "SmartBusinessPlan" (September 2nd, 2015)