Peter Simmel

Peter Simmel (born June 7, 1959 ) is a German retail entrepreneur . He runs a regional Edeka chain of stores with 20 branches in Saxony, Thuringia and Bavaria, around 1,000 employees and a turnover of 178 million euros (2017).

The native Bavarian went to Saxony shortly after reunification, where he opened his first shop in Chemnitz-Mittelbach in 1990 . In the year 2000 his company had already reached the turnover mark of 50 million euros. In 2005 he opened the first supermarket in Bavaria. In 2008, his group achieved a turnover of 106 million euros.

From June 2005 to January 2010 he was Jörg Hieber's successor as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Edeka Group, and has been a member of the Supervisory Board since January 10, 2010.

As a result of a complaint by the Ver.di union on suspicion of social security fraud and suspected illegal monitoring of employees, the Chemnitz public prosecutor's office investigated in 2010. He then resigned from his post. Simmel's successor as Edeka supervisory board chairman was Adolf Scheck . The allegations against Simmel were subsequently refuted by the judiciary.

Already at the end of April 2009, Simmel made headlines when he survived an emergency water landing in a twin-engine Cessna 421 in the Mühlenberger Loch near Hamburg with only minor injuries.

Simmel lives in Chemnitz-Grüna .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Munich Commercial Register, HRB 177192
2. ↑ All Simmel stores and branches at a glance. In: Simmel.de. Retrieved July 23, 2015 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} André Zand-Vakili, head of the Edeka supervisory board lands in the Elbe in: Welt Online from April 29, 2009.
4. ^ ^{A b} Adolf Scheck replaces Peter Simmel as head of the Edeka supervisory board , in: Merkur Online from January 18, 2010.