Rolf Wessel

Rolf Wessel (born May 27, 1955 in Luttrum ) is a German businessman and entrepreneur and, together with his former fellow student Michael Höft, co-founded the company Höft & Wessel (H & W), which was later traded on the German stock exchange .

Life

After graduating from school, Rolf Wessel began studying architecture at what was then the university in Hanover in 1974 . In Hanover he got to know the student Michael Höft, who had come from Darmstadt in 1975 after studying physics to the capital of Lower Saxony to study physics and mathematics there. Only a few years later, the two went into business for themselves and founded their IT entrepreneur Höft & Wessel in 1978 , which they converted into a GmbH in 1980, then into a stock corporation in 1998 and listed on the Neuer Markt on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the same year .

In just two decades, Rolf Wessel and Michael Höft had expanded the IT and software company they founded, whose product portfolio includes ticket machines, electronic ticket printers, terminals for toll stations, parking machines and parking systems as well as mobile data collection devices, into an internationally operating company based in Hanover and Swinden near London . The company founders later took over seats on the supervisory board of their former start-up .

Honors

In 1999 the Board of Trustees wanted to award the Karmarsch Memorial Medal - in contrast to the practices and considerations of previous years - specifically to honor "young, innovative and successful entrepreneurs from the Hanover region ". After a unanimous decision, the double honors on the respective certificate for the medal award ceremony on November 3, 1999 said:

"... for his exemplary achievements as an innovative company founder."

Publications

Bernhard Peschke (arr.): Speer plan. Regional- und -Stadtplaner-GmbH , created on behalf of Stadtwerke Speyer von Speerplan, Regional- u.-Stadter-GmbH , graphics: Marc glasses, Enrico Schichan; IT work: Michael Höft, Rolf Wessel, Frankfurt am Main: Speerplan, 1979

literature

Press release from the University of Hanover of October 27, 1999

Remarks

↑ After a call from the Wesselfilm company, the place of birth, Luttrum , stated in the book The Bearers of the Karmarsch Memorial Coin, is wrong; rather it should be called Luttum .

↑ Notwithstanding this, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB) notes the dates of Rolf Wessel's birth as April 13, 1952 in Bremen; compare Wessel, Rolf in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the GWLB in the processing of March 1, 2012, last accessed on July 25, 2017

↑ Notwithstanding this, the German National Library (DNB) notes the dates of birth in 1952 and Bremen for Rolf Wessel; compare the information from the DNB

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Rainer Ertel (edit.), Antje Doll, Gunther Mühge (edit.): A double honor for founding a start-up company ... In this: The bearers of the Karmarsch memorial coin. 1925 to 2011. A foray through German scientific and economic history , ed. from the Freundeskreis der Leibniz-Universität Hannover eV, Hannover: Verlag der Hahnschen Buchhandlung, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7752-6163-0 , p. 102f.

personal data
SURNAME	Wessel, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German businessman, entrepreneur and manager
DATE OF BIRTH	May 27, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luttrum

[1] After a call from the Wesselfilm company, the place of birth, Luttrum , stated in the book The Bearers of the Karmarsch Memorial Coin, is wrong; rather it should be called Luttum .

[2] Notwithstanding this, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB) notes the dates of Rolf Wessel's birth as April 13, 1952 in Bremen; compare Wessel, Rolf in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the GWLB in the processing of March 1, 2012, last accessed on July 25, 2017

[3] Notwithstanding this, the German National Library (DNB) notes the dates of birth in 1952 and Bremen for Rolf Wessel; compare the information from the DNB

[Die_Träger_...-4] Rainer Ertel (edit.), Antje Doll, Gunther Mühge (edit.): A double honor for founding a start-up company ... In this: The bearers of the Karmarsch memorial coin. 1925 to 2011. A foray through German scientific and economic history , ed. from the Freundeskreis der Leibniz-Universität Hannover eV, Hannover: Verlag der Hahnschen Buchhandlung, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7752-6163-0 , p. 102f.