Randolf Rodenstock

Randolf Alexander Rodenstock (born March 31, 1948 in Munich ) is a German entrepreneur and economic functionary . Until 2003 he headed the family business Rodenstock .

Life

After graduating from high school in Munich and doing an internship in South America, Rodenstock did military service (1968–1969). This was followed by a degree in electrical engineering and physics at the Technical University of Munich . After graduating in physics, Rodenstock joined the Optical Works G. Rodenstock (OWGR) in 1976. He stopped working there to complete an MBA at the Institut européen d'administration des affaires (INSEAD) in Fontainebleau , which he completed in 1978.

In 1983 Randolf Rodenstock joined the group of shareholders of Optische Werke G. Rodenstock as a personally liable partner ( general partner ) and managed the company together with his father Rolf Rodenstock . From 1990 he assumed overall responsibility for the Rodenstock group of companies as chairman of the group management. At the end of 2003 he switched to the Supervisory Board - first as Chairman and since 2007 as a member. Rodenstock has gradually separated from his family business. After 130 years of family ownership, the remaining 10% of the company's shares were sold to the financial investor Bridgepoint in January 2007. In April 2012 the company moved from its headquarters on Auenstrasse to the west of Munich.

His marriage to Uschi Rodenstock resulted in a son and a daughter.

Functions

• President of the vbw - Association of Bavarian Business until March 11, 2013
• President of the vbm - Association of the Bavarian Metal and Electrical Industry until February 2013
• President of bayme - Bayerischer Unternehmensverband Metall und Elektro , Munich until February 2013
• Member of the Presidium of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), Berlin
• Member of the Presidium of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), Berlin
• Vice President of the employers' association Gesamtmetall , Berlin
• Vice President of the DAFG - German-Arab Friendship Society , Berlin
• Vice President of the Institute of German Economy , Cologne
• Chairman of the Board of Management of the Roman Herzog Institute (RHI), Munich
• Member of the board of SPECTARIS , Berlin
• Member of the supervisory board of IKB Deutsche Industriebank
• Curator of the New Social Market Economy Initiative .

Awards

• 2007: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 2011: Honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich , Faculty of Economics

Fonts

• Opportunities for everyone; The new social market economy. Deutscher Instituts-Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-602-14524-7 .
• Ethical foundations of a just economic order from the perspective of the German economy; Decent economic order: the state conception of economic liberalism - How up-to-date is John Stuart Mill? Lecture at the conference of the Academy for Political Education Tutzing, June 23, 2006, Roman-Herzog-Institut, Munich 2006 (Information / Roman-Herzog-Institut; No. 1)
• as editor: trust in modernity . Roman Herzog Institute, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-941036-31-4 .
• as editor: The publications of the books published by the Roman-Herzog-Institut - the Roman-Herzog-Institut-Kompendium . Roman Herzog Institute, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-941036-36-9 .
• as editor: Freedom is futile . Roman Herzog Institute, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-941036-46-8
• as editor: The RHI Compendium . Roman Herzog Institute, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-941036-56-7

Web links

• Portrait on the Rodenstock website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} wiwo.de, archive version from March 4, 2016
2. ↑ Franziska Brüning: The name of glasses - The family company Rodenstock has stood for high-quality glasses since the 19th century. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. June 12, 2012.
3. ↑ cf. INSM campaign "Social market economy makes it better". December 13, 2009, under Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft International ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. And motives for the campaign "social market economy makes it better" . 
4. ↑ Randolf Rodenstock becomes honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich. Press release of the Technical University of Munich in the Science Information Service from January 14, 2011, accessed on January 14, 2011.