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Rolf Eberhard Buch (born April 2, 1965 in Weidenau ) is a German manager . In 2013 he was appointed CEO of the real estate company Deutsche Annington , which was renamed Vonovia after the takeover of Gagfah in 2015 . Buch previously worked in a management position for Arvato .

Origin and family

Buch was born in Weidenau near Siegen . At the age of three, his family moved to the Essen district of Kettwig . His father was there for the worldwide rolling mill business of Krupp responsible. After graduating from high school, Buch studied mechanical engineering and business administration at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen and graduated in 1990 with an engineering degree . Buch lives in Gütersloh with his wife and two children.

Career

Bertelsmann

Although Buch wanted to become a factory director, he began his professional career in 1991 in the printing and industrial division of Bertelsmann, which was later renamed Arvato . At first, Buch worked as an assistant to the management for Bertelsmann Distribution. After various positions in sales and marketing at domestic and foreign subsidiaries , he was appointed Managing Director of Bertelsmann Services in France in 1996. In 1999, as Chairman of the Management Board, he assumed responsibility for the entire Bertelsmann Services Group.

In 2002 Buch moved to the board of directors of Arvato, chaired by Hartmut Ostrowski . Under his leadership, the international service business bundled in Arvato Direct Services developed into an important source of revenue and profit. Buch expanded its activities in the area of customer relationship management , for example by taking over a number of Deutsche Telekom call centers . He also stabilized the business with the production of sound carriers . In 2008, Buch succeeded Ostrowski as CEO of Arvato and also became a member of the Bertelsmann Executive Board. In this position he pushed the business with services for cities and communities. The focus here was initially on the United Kingdom and Spain . Buch also invested heavily in digital offerings in order to prepare Arvato for digital change.

At the end of 2012, Buch left the Arvato Executive Board at his own request and left the group.

Vonovia

In 2013, the real estate company Deutsche Annington announced that it would sign Buch as CEO. He successfully led the company to the stock exchange and increased the housing stock through acquisitions. With the takeover of the competitor Gagfah in 2015, Buch created the largest German real estate group. Under the new name Vonovia, the company finally rose to the DAX share index . Die Zeit and other media directly attributed the multiplication of Vonovia's market value to Buch, but also made him responsible for rent increases and other problems. Against the background of the debate about the social responsibility of the real estate industry , he publicly admitted mistakes. One consequence of this was the limitation on the modernization levy that Buch announced at the end of 2018. At the same time, he has expanded the range of home-related services in recent years.

Others

During his many years of service for the Bertelsmann Group, Buch was a member of the supervisory board of the Internet company Lycos Europe until May 2009 . He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Swedish housing company D. Carnegie & Co in 2017 and 2018 . To this day, Buch sits on the supervisory board of the Society for the Protection of Miners' Homes (GSB) and is involved in the board of trustees of the Woldemar Winkler Foundation of the Sparkasse Gütersloh .

Web links

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Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Hans-Peter Siebenhaar, Reiner Reichel: The new master in the house . In: Handelsblatt . March 1, 2013, p. 70 .
  4. ↑ Autumn makes everything new . Deutsche Annington merges with competitor Gagfah and calls itself Vonovia. In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 2, 2015, p. 3 .
  5. ↑ Tina Kaiser: The pre-pusher . Whether at the cash register, at the airport or at work: Rolf Buch hates waiting. In: Welt am Sonntag . August 3, 2008, p. 72 ( welt.de [accessed June 13, 2019]).
  6. ↑ a b Tina Kaiser: Mechanical engineer with a weakness for lawns . In: Welt am Sonntag . August 3, 2008, p. 72 .
  7. ↑ Lower rents - and still profitable . In: Höxtersche Zeitung . December 16, 2016, p. 6 .
  8. ↑ Stefan Brams: Before the career jump . In: New Westphalian . December 15, 2006.
  9. ↑ New name, new goals . In: Darmstädter Echo . June 9, 1999.
  10. ↑ a b A service provider moves to the top . In: New Westphalian . January 20, 2007.
  11. ↑ Stefan Schelp: Faster than everyone else . In: New Westphalian . November 26, 2015.
  12. ↑ Ostrowski succeeds Thielen at Arvato . In: The world . September 2, 2002, p. 11 .
  13. ↑ Andrea Frühauf: Arvato strengthens: Bertelsmann subsidiary buys five call centers from Telekom . In: New Westphalian . March 27, 2007.
  14. ↑ Hans-Peter Siebenhaar: "We are gaining market share" . In: Handelsblatt . September 5, 2007, p. 14 .
  15. ↑ Hans-Peter Siebenhaar: Rolf Buch becomes Arvato boss . In: Handelsblatt . January 22, 2007, p. 13 .
  16. ↑ Stefan Brams: Twitching fingers and big jobs . In: New Westphalian . January 2, 2008.
  17. ↑ Kai-Hinrich Renner: Bertelsmann subsidiary Arvato wants to win local authorities as customers . In: The world . April 10, 2008, p. 14 .
  18. ↑ Hans-Peter Siebenhaar: In search of a new gold donkey . In: Handelsblatt . April 4, 2008, p. 16 .
  19. ↑ Lutz Knappmann: Arvato is pushing into the digital business . In: Financial Times Germany . March 24, 2010, p. 7 .
  20. ↑ Stefan Schelp: Arvato boss clears the field . In: New Westphalian . December 1, 2012.
  21. ↑ Deutsche Annington finds new boss. In: WirtschaftsWoche. March 1, 2013, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Andreas Heitker: Rolf Buch is to lead Deutsche Annington on the stock exchange . In: Börsen-Zeitung . March 2, 2013, p. 16 .
  23. ↑ Norbert Schwaldt: Tenants are not paymasters . In: The world . June 4, 2014, p. 17 .
  24. ↑ Norbert Schwaldt: Housing groups celebrate elephant wedding . In: The world . December 2, 2014, p. 15 .
  25. ↑ Heike Jahberg: One million tenants under one roof . In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 2, 2014, p. 6 .
  26. ↑ Christoph Rottwilm: How Germany's largest apartment rental company rose to the top stock market league. In: Manager Magazin. September 4, 2015, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Götz Hamann: He can do it . In: The time . No. 37 , 2015, p. 24 ( zeit.de [accessed on June 13, 2019]).
  28. ↑ Volker ter Haseborg: How Vonovia boss Rolf Buch formed a real estate empire. In: WirtschaftsWoche. December 18, 2018, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Alexander Jung, Anne Seith: "We made mistakes" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 2018, p. 64 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 13, 2019]).
  30. ↑ Michael Fabricius, Ulf Poschardt: "We also make mistakes" . In: Welt am Sonntag . April 21, 2019, p. 38 .
  31. ↑ Vonovia: Less modernization and limitation of rent increases. In: WirtschaftsWoche. December 6, 2018, accessed July 25, 2019 .
  32. ↑ Uta Knapp, Reinhart Bünger, Michaela Nehren Essing: Vonovia takes the brakes . In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 8, 2018, p. 211 .
  33. ^ Claudia Wagner: Strategist on the housing market . In: Südkurier . January 11, 2019, p. 19 .
  34. ↑ Rolf Buch remains with Lycos . In: New Westphalian . May 25, 2007.
  35. ↑ Annual Report 2009 (PDF) Bertelsmann, p. 160 , accessed on June 13, 2019 (11.6 MB).
  36. ^ Board of Directors. (No longer available online.) D. Carnegie & Co, archived from the original on December 18, 2017 ; accessed on June 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Book, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Book, Rolf Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Weidenau (Siegen)