Willi Verhuven

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Willi Verhuven (born September 10, 1950 ) is a German entrepreneur and tourism specialist . He opened the Alltours travel group on January 15, 1974 , initially as a small travel agency in Kleve in North Rhine-Westphalia . To this day, sole owner Verhuven is managing the company of the holiday provider with the tour operator Alltours Flugreisen GmbH as the core.

Life and work

Verhuven grew up with three sisters in Kleve on the Lower Rhine. At the age of 15 he left school and trained as a technical draftsman. In addition to his job, however, he made his hobby traveling. In 1974, at the age of 23, Verhuven opened his first travel agency in his hometown. Since the Greek island of Mykonos was one of his favorite travel destinations, he initially offered package tours to Greece in addition to bus trips. In the first year around 500 vacationers traveled to the Peloponnese with his company. Today, the Alltours companies have a total of 1.75 million customers in sales of around 1.4 billion euros (as of 2011/2012).

Verhuven is single and has no children. As a problem for Alltours has Wirtschaftswoche defines a succession plan: "By its nature has arrived Verhuven at a point in his career where he threatens to endanger his life's work. Instead of systematically building a successor, he wears out potential candidates like no other in the industry, ”says the business magazine.

Public attention

The otherwise public-shy Verhuven was put in the spotlight when he apparently deliberately hit a police officer in his car in Duisburg in March 2012. The officer had wanted to prevent Verhuven from driving to his nearby workplace because of a demonstration. In January 2013, the Duisburg District Court sentenced Verhuven to a fine of 25,000 euros and a two-month driver's license for resisting law enforcement officers and negligent bodily harm. The judgment became final in mid-May after Verhuven and the Duisburg public prosecutor withdrew their appeal. Verhuven later announced, however, that the state of North Rhine-Westphalia would be suing for damage to his vehicle by the police officer. After the regional court in Duisburg dismissed the complaint, the entrepreneur tried in vain to file a claim for compensation of 400 euros against the police officer. The police officer apparently damaged the vehicle's windshield wiper while trying to prevent Verhuven from continuing. All proceedings came to an end in mid-November 2013 after the Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor's Office also rejected complaints from the entrepreneur.

capital

The German Manager Magazine has Verhuven on its list of the 500 richest Germans with an estimated fortune of around 800 million euros (as of 2013).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg: Willi Verhuven - Munzinger biography. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
  2. ^ Alltours Flugreisen website; Accessed January 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ Tourism: Alltours boss endangers his life's work. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ DerWesten - derwesten.de: Alltours boss Willi Verhuven convicted of bodily harm . ( derwesten.de [accessed on March 5, 2018]).
  5. ↑ DerWesten - derwesten.de: Alltours boss Willi Verhuven withdraws appeal against court ruling . ( derwesten.de [accessed on March 5, 2018]).
  6. ^ FVW Medien GmbH: Willi Verhuven: Alltours sued police officers (subscription) . In: fvw.de . ( fvw.de [accessed on March 5, 2018]).
  7. ↑ DerWesten - derwesten.de: Alltours in Duisburg fails in the bizarre windshield wiper process . ( derwesten.de [accessed on March 5, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Verhuven, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleve , North Rhine-Westphalia