Stella A. Ahlers

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Stella Agnes Ahlers (born January 24, 1965 in Düsseldorf ) is a German entrepreneur and CEO of Ahlers AG , a large men's clothing company based in Herford . This makes her one of the few women in Germany who manage a stock market-oriented company.

Life

Stella Agnes Ahlers is the only daughter of Jan A. Ahlers , the son of the textile entrepreneur Adolf Ahlers, who founded the company of the same name. Another son of Adolf Ahlers is Dirk Ahlers , the uncle of Stella Ahlers.

Ahlers grew up in Herford and attended the Friedrichs-Gymnasium there , where she passed the Abitur. In 1984, to the displeasure of her father, the Catholic did not study fashion, economics or clothing technology, but Catholic theology and law in Paderborn and Bonn. At the Department of Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Law of the University of Lucerne she earned her doctorate from 1998 to 2004. The theme: "Equality of women in church and state - a problematic tension" . Only in the semester break did she devote herself to business.

Ahlers speaks English and Italian fluently, French "quite well", and Russian and Spanish "a little".

Entrepreneur

In 1996, Stella Ahlers joined her father's fashion company, which had been running the company since 1968. On July 12, 2006, she moved to the top of Ahlers AG as the new CEO. A few months after taking office, at the end of May, she sold the shirt manufacturer Eterna for 120 million euros to the financial investor Alpha. The reason: expanding the shirt brand Eterna into a full-range supplier is too costly. She saw more potential in the Otto Kern, Pierre Cardin, Jupiter and Gin Tonic brands. She wanted to expand their product range to clothe men and, in the case of gin and tonic, women from head to toe. She invested part of the money obtained from the Eterna sale in the luxury Baldessarini line, because her goal was to develop the Ahlers Group into an international lifestyle brand group. In 2015 it gave up the Gin Tonic brand and in 2018 the Jupiter brand, so that the Ahlers company could only concentrate on a few brands.

art

In her private life, Stella Ahlers is reluctant to reveal much about herself. It is known that she is very interested in art and, for example, collects works by Russian artists.

In 1995 they and their father founded the Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation in Herford . The foundation was based in Hanover from 1995 to 2016. In 2005 the foundation moved to the Warmbüchenviertel in Hanover . The Kestnergesellschaft was located in this historic building from 1948 to 1997 . In autumn 2016 the foundation moved into its own house near the company premises in Herford- Elverdissen .

The foundation's mandate is, in particular, the documentation and scientific development of the influence that the art of German Expressionism had on the further development of the art of the 20th century at home and abroad.

In addition to the company's own exhibition activities, works from the collection are to be presented to the public through loans to exhibition venues, including the Sprengel Museum Hannover . In April 2016, Stella Ahlers said that the Hanover Foundation would remain connected to the cooperation agreement with the Sprengelmuseum.

Web links

  • 100 years of Ahlers supplement to the Westfalen-Blatt dated September 28, 2019 at www.ahlers-ag.com

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ileana Grabitz: Katholische-Strenge-am-Laufsteg In: Die Welt, December 3, 2006
  2. ↑ a b Tanja Kewes: With gentle compulsion In: Handelsblatt, July 27, 2006
  3. ^ Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation
  4. ^ Daniel Alexander Schacht: Mourning over the withdrawal of the Ahlers Foundation In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , April 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Ahlers, Stella A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahlers, Stella Agnes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf