Peter Kropsch

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Peter Kropsch (born June 26, 1965 in Wels , Upper Austria) is the managing director of the German press agency dpa, where he took over the chairmanship of the management in January 2017. Before that, Kropsch was CEO of the Austrian news agency APA - Austria Presse Agentur .

Training and first professional positions

Peter Kropsch graduated from Wels in 1983 . Immediately afterwards he studied business administration for two semesters at the University of Linz , but then switched to studying journalism and communication science at the University of Vienna in 1984 . As a second major, Kropsch chose a combination of subjects from psychology , sociology and history . He completed both courses in 1993 and then began his one-year military service .

Parallel to these two studies, he completed a university course in public relations at the University of Vienna from 1989 to 1991 , which he successfully completed as an "academically certified PR consultant".

Even as a student, Kropsch also worked for various companies, such as B. until 1989 as a freelance copywriter for an advertising agency in Linz. He then worked in the Elin Group in the public relations department until 1991 , where he most recently acted as press spokesman and head of the PR department.

For the following four years he switched from PR to journalism and worked from 1991 to 1995 as a business editor at WIPRESS - Wirtschaftspressedienst GmbH, which was a subsidiary of the German vwd group ( United Business Services ), which in turn was owned by the Handelsblatt , the FAZ and the Dow Jones stood. Before the agency was sold to the APA - Austria Press Agency, Kropsch was already entrusted with the tasks of authorized signatory and co-partner.

Worked at APA - Austria Presse Agentur eG

Kropsch's career began at APA - Austria Press Agency in 1996 in the Marketing and Sales department. In his second year with the company, he was already head of Business Information and was responsible for the business areas APA Financial Services, APA Databases and Profile Services, APA Original Text Service and APA MultiMedia. In the course of the spin-off of APA-OTS, he took over the management of the new subsidiary in 2000 and was appointed authorized signatory and member of the APA management in the same year.

From 2002 and 2008 he also acted as managing director of APA-DeFacto GmbH and APA-BeteiligungsManagement GmbH. In December 2005, Kropsch was appointed deputy managing director, and finally managing director in 2006 under CEO Wolfgang Vyslozil .

From 2009 Kropsch was a member of the executive board and chief executive officer . The second managing director in the APA Group was Konrad Tretter from 2009 to 2014, and Clemens Pig from 2014. In October 2014, Kropsch was voted “ Media Manager of the Year 2014” by the industry magazine “ Der Österreichische Journalist ” . In June 2015 it was announced that Kropsch will be transferring to the management of the German Press Agency in September 2016.

Other professional functions

  • 2008–2011: Board member MINDS International
  • 2008 – today: Member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Keystone AG (Zurich)
  • 2009–2010: Chairman of the board of MINDS International
  • 2010–2014: Member of the board of EANA - European Alliance of News Agencies
  • 2012–2014: President of EANA - European Alliance of News Agencies
  • 2012 – today: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Keystone AG
  • 2000–2012: Teaching at several universities and technical colleges - lectures a. a. on: "Strategic and economic aspects of digital content offers" and "Management practice"

Awards

2014: " Media Manager of the Year 2014", awarded by the industry magazine " Der Österreichische Journalist "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dpa: owner & management. In: www.dpa.com. Retrieved September 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Peter Kropsch in future at dpa head . Article dated June 15, 2016, accessed July 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ APA management. In: Website of the APA - Austria Press Agency. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b c CV Peter Kropsch. In: pdf on the website of the APA-OTS tourism press. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
  5. ↑ APA gets third deputy managing director. In: Transmission via APA-OTS original text service. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Personnel decisions in the APA management. In: Transmission via APA-OTS original text service. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
  7. ^ APA boss Peter Kropsch "Media Manager of the Year". In: derstandard.at. Retrieved November 5, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Peter Kropsch in future at dpa head. Retrieved September 14, 2016 .
  9. ↑ MINDS International: Eleven leading news agencies establish network. In: Transmission via APA-OTS original text service. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Swiss picture agency Keystone in future with APA and SDA as owners. In: Transmission via APA-OTS original text service. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
  11. ↑ MINDS International agency network with new board. In: Transmission via APA-OTS original text service. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Finne Pettersson new President of Europe's news agencies. In: Article on derstandard.at. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Europe's news agencies put APA boss Kropsch at the top. In: Transmission via APA-OTS original text service. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Mag. Peter Kropsch. In: Entry in Moneyhouse - Commercial Register and Business Information. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
  15. ↑ kropschzone. (No longer available online.) In: Teaching documentation. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014 ; Retrieved April 30, 2014 . 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 / kropschzone.com
personal data
SURNAME Kropsch, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian manager, managing director of Austria Press Agency
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Wels , Upper Austria