Werner Baldessarini

Werner Baldessarini (born January 23, 1945 in Kufstein , Tyrol ) is a manager , fashion designer and former CEO of Hugo Boss AG.

The men's fashion brand Baldessarini , named after him and founded in 1993, still exists today - since the end of 2007, however, without Werner Baldessarini.

Career

Baldessarini's grandparents were of Italian descent, his father was an Austrian textile merchant, and his mother came from Nuremberg . Baldessarini, who is called "Rini" by his friends, grew up in Munich and began an apprenticeship as a textile merchant at the Hirmer men's fashion store in Munich at the age of 16 after completing secondary school . Baldessarini then became a buyer at the men's outfitter Wagenheimer in Munich, where he became managing director in 1971.

Hugo Boss

In 1975 he started working as a designer at Hugo Boss. The boss at the time, Uwe Holy, got to know Baldessarini through Wagenheimer. At Hugo Boss, Baldessarini was appointed to the board of directors in 1988, which he also headed from 1998.

Under the direction of the then CEO Peter Littmann and under Baldessarini's leadership as chief designer, the high-priced luxury label named after him for the more mature gentleman, Baldessarini , was introduced as a Hugo Boss top brand in 1993. The youthful label HUGO was also presented for the first time in 1993 . The sportswear label Boss Orange (1998) and the initially unsuccessful women's fashion line Boss woman (2000) were introduced under Baldessarini's leadership as Boss boss . In 2002 Baldessarini was replaced by Bruno Sälzer in his position as CEO of Hugo Boss and moved to the company's supervisory board , to which he was a member until 2005. In 2004, Baldessarini was spun off from Hugo Boss AG as a subsidiary and the company headquarters moved from Metzingen to Munich.

Ahlers

At the beginning of 2006, Hugo Boss AG announced that it wanted to sell the niche brand Baldessarini . On August 23, 2006, Hugo Boss sold Baldessarini's textile division (or Baldessarini GmbH & Co KG and Baldessarini Design- und Verwaltungs GmbH , based in Munich) to Werner Baldessarini. In the Hugo Boss portfolio , Baldessarini has been replaced by the slightly lower positioned premium brand Boss Selection (launched at the end of 2003). On August 24, 2006, Baldessarini again sold the brand named after him for an estimated purchase price of between 6 and 9 million euros to Ahlers AG in Herford . The Baldessarini brand has been run without Werner Baldessarini since the end of 2007 , although he was originally supposed to act as a consultant until 2012 . At the end of 2010 he was appointed to the supervisory board of the Austrian stocking manufacturer Wolford .

Private

Werner Baldessarini lives with his wife Cathrin (* 1963), whom he married in 1995, in Kitzbühel .

On September 11, 2001, Baldessarini was sitting in a Lufthansa plane heading for New York when the attacks occurred there. The aircraft, like 37 other machines , was diverted to Gander , Newfoundland . Together with Baldessarini, around 6,500 passengers stranded in Gander and were stuck there for four days. An earlier departure offered by his company, he declined on the grounds that he would like to see this tragic time at the side of the other stranded passengers to the end.

Web links

• The boss is turning 60 , report in the star

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "I am often too much for myself" ( Memento from January 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Die Welt, August 19, 2001
2. ↑ What is Werner Baldessarini actually doing? , Manager Magazine, August 10, 2004
3. ^ Ahlers takes over Baldessarini , Textilwirtschaft, August 25, 2006
4. ↑ Baldessarini goes  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Textile Industry, December 13, 2007  
5. ↑ How thousands of passengers found refuge in Gander , faz.net, September 11, 2016