Thomas Sattelberger

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Thomas Sattelberger (2020)

Thomas Sattelberger (born June 5, 1949 in Munderkingen ) is a German manager and politician ( FDP ). From 2007 to 2012 he was on the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom . He has been a member of the German Bundestag for the FDP since October 2017 .

Origin and education

Thomas Sattelberger is the son of an administrative officer and a home economics teacher. From 1966 he was in the one-year student exchange program at the American Field Service in Springfield , Oregon . It was shaped there by debating competitions on political topics. As a high school student he became a member of the Independent Student Community Stuttgart, which saw itself as part of the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition (APO). Among other things, he campaigned against the prevention policy of the Roman Catholic Church , against the NPD and for Maoist ideas. After graduating from Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium Stuttgart , he did his community service in Reutlingen . He briefly studied sociology , then he took up a teaching degree at the Ludwigsburg University of Education . He was one of the founders of the Revolutionary Youth of Germany , local group Stuttgart, one of the forerunners of the Communist Workers' Union of Germany (KABD), but was excluded in 1971 because Sattelberger had contacts with Joschka Fischer , who was considered a petty-bourgeois autonomous in this K group . After being expelled from the party, he began dual training at Daimler-Benz . Looking back, he commented on his move from APO to Daimler: "Daimler refuted all ideas that I had had about capitalism as an APO activist".

Professional career

Sattelberger holds a degree in business administration (dual university). From 1975 he worked in the Central Education department at Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart . In 1982 he switched to the group subsidiary MTU , where he was responsible for executive development, among other things, until he returned to the parent company in 1988, and then in 1989 became Head of Education & Management Development at what was then Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG (DASA) . In 1994 he moved to Deutsche Lufthansa in Frankfurt am Main as Head of Group Management and Personnel Development , where he founded the Lufthansa School of Business, the first corporate university in Germany. When he was appointed to the executive board of the passenger business in 1999, Sattelberger assumed line responsibility for the first time. In 2003 he went to Continental in Hanover as Chief Human Resources Officer and Labor Director, and in 2007 in the same position at Deutsche Telekom in Bonn , where he stayed until 2012.

Sattelberger has made a name for himself as an advocate of diversity management and is considered the initiator of the 30% women quota on the Telekom board. He criticizes closed systems in corporations and society and the associated inequality of opportunity and the exclusion of talent. In addition, he is considered a critic of the MBA training based on the American model.

Mandates and memberships

Sattelberger has been honorary chairman of the BDA / BDI initiative MINT creating the future since 2008 .

Until 2012 he was Vice President of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) for many years and is a Fellow of the International Academy of Management (IAOM).

From May 2012 to April 2017 he was the theme ambassador for personnel management and spokesman for the theme ambassadors at the Initiative Neue Qualität der Arbeit (INQA).

From August 2012 to spring 2014 he was chairman of the board of the ZU Foundation, the sponsor of the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen .

From September 2012 to the end of 2015 he was chairman of the supervisory board of the German subsidiary of the French automotive supplier Faurecia Automotive.

In 2015 he was the main initiator of the future alliance Work & Society ZAAG and became its chairman.

Since 2011 he has been chairman of the advisory board of the Deutschlandstipendium and a member of the advisory board of the Accenture Foundation and since 2014 a member of the advisory board of the Heraeus Education Foundation .

Member of the Bundestag

Thomas Sattelberger (2014)

Sattelberger has been a member of the FDP since 2015. On September 1, 2016, he was nominated by his party as a direct candidate for the 2017 federal election in the Munich-South constituency, received 9.1% of the votes and entered the 19th German Bundestag via fifth place on the list of the FDP Bavaria .

Offices and memberships

For his group he sits on the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment and the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs. He is the political spokesman for the group for innovation, education and research.

He is one of the founders of the support group of the Federal Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation .

Sattelberger has been a member of the Rotary Club Munich since 2020 .

Others

By 2011 he was listed five times by the trade journal Personalmagazin as one of the “40 leading figures in human resources” and then into the Hall of Fame .

In the film Alphabet (2013) he was interviewed by Erwin Wagenhofer as the Telekom HR director .

In June 2016, Sattelberger received an honorary doctorate (Dr. rer. Pol. Hc) from the Faculty of Economics, Business Informatics and Business Law at the University of Siegen .

Sattelberger was co-editor of the society magazine Revue - Magazine for the Next Society from 2007 to 2014 , has written several books and has been a columnist for Manager Magazin since 2013 .

On March 14, 2020, Sattelberger was found to be infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Private

Sattelberger lives with his partner in Munich and on Lake Starnberg .

Publications (selection)

  • Attention, tough dogs! Thomas Sattelberger, Frankfurt am Main. Campus Verlag, 2017.
  • Diversity instead of simplicity, Thomas Sattelberger, Göttingen, Wallstein Verlag, 2016.
  • The democratic company, Thomas Sattelberger, Munich, Haufe Lexware, 2015.
  • Human resource management, Thomas Sattelberger, Munich, TCW-Verlag, 2000.
  • I'm not shut up. My life as a man of conviction in the executive suite . Murmann, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86774-420-1 .
  • Thomas Sattelberger: We up here . Guest Post. In: The time . No. 24/2016 . Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius, June 2, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( online [accessed June 18, 2016]).

Web links

Commons : Thomas Sattelberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Harald Willenbrock: The clocked man . In: brand eins . February 2014, (accessed March 11, 2018).
  2. ↑ About me . thomas-sattelberger.de (accessed on March 11, 2018).
  3. ↑ Interview with Thomas Sattelberger on training issues in a Deutsche Telekom magazine (2010), accessed on March 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ LF / dma: top managers: Deutsche Telekom Board was "excessive" APO activist. In: welt.de . August 26, 2007. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  5. ^ Curriculum vitae of Thomas Sattelberger ( Memento from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Initiative Neue Qualität der Arbeit .
  6. ↑ Women at the top make companies more successful , Bertelsmann Stiftung , February 20, 2012.
  7. ↑ Careers are made in peeing . In: KarriereSpiegel . June 6, 2011.
  8. ↑ How to outsmart Schumpeter ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Financial Times Deutschland , July 5, 2012.
  9. ↑ The big business schools are living corpses . In: KarriereSpiegel . February 9, 2012.
  10. ^ "Board of Directors of the MINT Initiative" ( Memento from June 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  11. ^ Board of the EFMD. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
  12. ^ Fellows, Europe Sattelberger, Thomas . theiaom.org (accessed March 12, 2018)
  13. ↑ Ex-Telekom board member Sattelberger changes into politics . In: Der Spiegel . May 20, 2012.
  14. ↑ ZU | Foundation, The organs of the Foundation ( Memento from August 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Zeppelin University .
  15. ↑ Ex-Telekom HR director takes over chairmanship of the supervisory board at Faurecia . Haufe-Lexware , September 19, 2012.
  16. ↑ Hagen Wiesner new chairman of the supervisory board of Faurecia Automotive GmbH . faurecia.de press release from November 26, 2015
  17. ↑ Future alliance Work & Society ZAAG officially founded . gfwm.de (accessed on March 11, 2018)
  18. ↑ The advisory board introduces itself . deutschlandstipendium.de (accessed on March 11, 2018)
  19. ↑ About me . thomas-sattelberger.de (accessed on March 11, 2018).
  20. ↑ Press release of the FDP München-Süd from September 2, 2016. Quoted on Thomas Sattelberger's website. Retrieved October 17, 2016
  21. ↑ TOP 12 of the FDP state list for the federal election | FDP Bavaria . In: FDP Bavaria . ( fdp-bayern.de [accessed on August 19, 2017]).
  22. ^ The Federal Returning Officer : Elected on state lists of the parties in Bavaria - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
  23. ^ Memberships and offices in the Bundestag of Thomas Sattelberger. bundestag.de (accessed on March 11, 2018)
  24. ↑ Policy spokesperson. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .
  25. ↑ a b Queer.de: Coming out at the charity dinner
  26. ↑ Personalmagazin names the 40 leading figures in human resources ( Memento from July 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Haufe-Lexware . 23 August 2011.
  27. ↑ University of Siegen awards honorary doctorate | University of Siegen. In: www.uni-siegen.de. Retrieved December 13, 2016 .
  28. ^ Revue - Magazine for the Next Society . archive.is (accessed March 11, 2018).
  29. ↑ Competence instead of stable smell . In: Manager Magazin . June 21th 2013.
  30. ↑ see also sueddeutsche.de: A video diary against fear of the virus
  31. ↑ A business insider unpacks. The quota man . tagesspiegel.de from March 1, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Sattelberger, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager, politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Munderkingen