Reinhard Mohn

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Reinhard Mohn (2008)

Reinhard Mohn (born June 29, 1921 in Gütersloh ; † October 3, 2009 in Steinhagen ) was a German entrepreneur and founder . Under his leadership, the medium-sized printing and publishing house Bertelsmann , which has existed since 1835, developed into an international media group . In 1977 he founded the non-profit Bertelsmann Foundation , which is now one of the largest foundations in Germany.

Mohn has received numerous national and international awards for his entrepreneurial and charitable services, such as the Great Federal Cross of Merit with Star and the Prince of Asturias Prize .

Life

origin

Mohn was born in 1921 as the fifth child of Agnes Mohn (née Seippel) and Heinrich Mohn . He represented the fifth generation of Bertelsmann owners. His grandfather Johannes Mohn had taken over the management of the printing and publishing house from his father-in-law Heinrich Bertelsmann , son of Carl Bertelsmann , in 1887 .

Mohn grew up in a strictly Protestant home. In 1939 he passed his Abitur at the Evangelical-Stiftisches Gymnasium Gütersloh and did the Reich Labor Service . He then volunteered for military service in the Air Force , originally with the aim of training as a pilot. After serving in an air base company on the Western Front, Mohn joined the air defense , was a private, non-commissioned officer and, in 1942, was promoted to lieutenant . His regiment was transferred from France via Italy to Tunisia. On May 5, 1943, Poppy was taken prisoner by the United States . In mid-June 1943 he was transferred to Camp Concordia in the state of Kansas in the United States . According to Mohn's own account, this period had a profound impact on him; it was during this time that he dealt with American management literature for the first time.

Reinhard Mohn returned to Gütersloh in January 1946. Since his eldest brother, Hans Heinrich Mohn, had already died in 1939 and Sigbert Mohn, the second oldest of the brothers, was still a prisoner of war, he initially decided to do an apprenticeship as a bookseller and then to get into his father's business. His father Heinrich Mohn had come into the focus of the British occupation authorities as a supporting member of the SS and because of financial contributions to other NS organizations . In April 1947 he ceded his publishing license to his son Reinhard, who from then on ran the publishing business.

family

In 1948 Mohn married Magdalene Raßfeld, whom he knew from school. The couple has three children: Johannes, Susanne and Christiane. The marriage was divorced in 1982, and Mohn married Elisabeth Scholz in the same year . Both have had a relationship since the 1950s. After the wedding, Mohn adopted their three children, Brigitte , Christoph and Andreas .

Act

Bertelsmann

In 1947 Mohn took over the management of the C. Bertelsmann Verlag, which was largely destroyed during the Second World War . In 1950 he founded Bertelsmann Lesering , which formed the basis for the company's rapid growth in the decades that followed. In doing so, he closely involved the employees right from the start, for example through a loan participation introduced in 1951. In 1969 he introduced profit sharing for employees, which is regarded as exemplary nationwide. As an entrepreneur, Mohn consistently pursued the expansion of the traditional publishing business to become a media group: He got into music and film production, invested in the magazine business and pushed international expansion. A planned merger between Bertelsmann and the Axel Springer group in 1969/70 did not materialize.

In 1971 Mohn converted the family business into a stock corporation . In this way he created another structural requirement for Bertelsmann's rise to one of the world's leading media groups. Mohn became CEO and in this position continued a corporate culture based on partnership, an essential part of which is the dialogue between management and employees. In 1976 he had a new corporate headquarters built, which is still the headquarters of the Bertelsmann company today. During this time, Mohn also entered the US publishing business, which is important for Bertelsmann. With the acquisition of Bantam Books (1977/1980) and Doubleday (1986), the largest public publishing group in the United States of the time was created.

In 1981 Mohn moved from the executive board to the supervisory board , which he headed for another ten years. He remained involved in the operative business. At the age of 70, he finally resigned his mandate, but remained honorary chairman of the supervisory board. From then on he devoted himself primarily to his charitable work, in particular to the Bertelsmann Foundation. In 1999, Mohn transferred the control of the voting rights of around 90% of the shares in Bertelsmann to Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft, which he had previously had sole control of . With this step he wanted to ensure the continuity of his company.

Bertelsmann Foundation

In 1977 Mohn founded the non-profit Bertelsmann Foundation. It was initially equipped with a capital of 100,000 marks . Mohn supported the concept of an operational foundation developed by the management, which develops and supervises projects itself. On his initiative, for example, the Bertelsmann Foundation took part in building the Gütersloh City Library and created the Carl Bertelsmann Prize (now known as the Reinhard Mohn Prize ).

In the 1980s, the Bertelsmann Foundation developed into a focus of Mohn's socio-political commitment. In 1993, the majority of the capital was transferred to Bertelsmann. The Bertelsmann Stiftung thus became the largest shareholder in the group. In the donation agreement , capital shares and voting rights were strictly separated so that neither the foundation nor the group can exert any significant influence on the other.

Mohn massively increased the Bertelsmann Stiftung's budget in the 1990s. In addition to his involvement in Germany, he supported projects in Spain, such as the Fundació Biblioteca d´Alcúdia Can Torró on Mallorca. In 1995 he founded the Fundación Bertelsmann with its current offices in Barcelona and Madrid as an independent subsidiary of the Bertelsmann Foundation. It is currently dedicated to promoting dual training in order to reduce youth unemployment. The Bertelsmann Foundation North America, founded in 2008 and based in Washington, DC, takes care of transatlantic cooperation, among other things.

In the first few years, the founder acted as the sole director of the Bertelsmann Foundation. In 1979 a managing director was hired, from 1983 Mohn was supported by an advisory board , and in 1993 the management board was expanded. From 1998 Mohn retired from the top management: he initially resigned as chairman of the board and a year later also chaired the advisory board. Due to several structural and personnel changes, Mohn was again temporarily chairman of both management bodies of the Bertelsmann Stiftung from the end of 2000 to mid-2001, until Gunter Thielen succeeded him as CEO. In 2004 he left the Bertelsmann Stiftung Executive Board for good, but remained a member of the Board of Trustees as a founder by virtue of the statutes until his death in 2009.

Honors (selection)

Works

Reinhard Mohn was also active as a journalist, particularly from the late 1980s. He is the author of several books and magazine articles dealing with social and economic issues. In 1985 he published the essay "The Vanity in the Life of the Manager", in which he denounced a self-related managerialism . Mohn repeatedly caused a sensation with his remarks on this topic. In 1986 he manifested the principles of Bertelsmann's corporate culture with “Success through Partnership” . In “Humanity wins” from 2000, he advocated a partnership-based management style as an order model for a modern organizational structure. “The social responsibility of the entrepreneur” from 2001 defines a regulatory framework, at the center of which is entrepreneurship . In 2008 his last work was published under the title “Learning from the World”, in which Mohn autobiographically dealt with defining parts of his own life. It was created in collaboration with the author Andrea Stoll , who also wrote the screenplay for the film "There must be more heads to think" by Roland Suso Richter . This film was a present from the Bertelsmann Executive Board on Mohn's 85th birthday in 2006.

Others

In 1991, on the occasion of Reinhard Mohn's 70th birthday, the Bertelsmann Board of Directors established a Reinhard Mohn Chair for corporate management, business ethics and social evolution at the private University of Witten / Herdecke .

In 2006 Mohn established the Reinhard Mohn Foundation named after him, which has been headed by his son Christoph Mohn since 2010 . After Reinhard Mohn's death, the foundation came into possession of shares in Bertelsmann that Reinhard Mohn had held through an intermediate company.

In 2010 the University of Witten / Herdecke honored Mohn with an institute for corporate management and corporate governance, today's Reinhard Mohn Institute for corporate management. It includes the Reinhard Mohn Chair for Corporate Management , founded in 1991, a Chair for Strategic Organization and a Research Professorship .

In 2011, the Bertelsmann Foundation awarded the Reinhard Mohn Prize for the first time , which continues the Carl Bertelsmann Prize. The award recognizes internationally renowned personalities for pioneering solutions to social and political challenges.

criticism

Mohn was criticized by Bertelsmann for dealing with the Nazi past. After questions about its role in the Third Reich arose in the 1990s , the company, with the support of Mohn, set up an independent historical commission to come to terms with the Nazi era . She submitted her final report in 2002 and ruled that the legend of the resistance publishing house, which had been widespread for decades, could not be upheld. Instead, Bertelsmann was the largest book producer in the Wehrmacht .

In 2010, the author and journalist Thomas Schuler criticized the “tax-saving integration” of Bertelsmann and Bertelsmann Stiftung. The structures created by Mohn would have saved his family billions in inheritance tax . However, this would not have occurred according to the legal opinion valid at the time.

literature

Web links

Commons : Reinhard Mohn  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Poppy, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and founder
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutersloh
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 2009
Place of death Steinhagen