Wolfgang Kulenkampff

Wolfgang Kulenkampff (* 1941 ) is a German forwarding agent and manager . Among other things, he headed the forwarding and logistics group J.H. Bachmann in Bremen and has been retired since 2007.

Life

After completing his school education, Wolfgang Kulenkampff completed an apprenticeship as a forwarding agent at the Bremen trading company JH Bachmann (JHB) from 1960 and then concentrated on international logistics. After several years of education and training in the USA and Spain , he worked for JHB for six years in Brazil , among other things , where he was responsible for setting up and managing subsidiaries there and in all major countries in South America .

In 1982, Kulenkampff switched to what was then Haniel Spedition (later Thyssen Haniel Logistic GmbH (THL)), for which, as a member of the management , he was responsible for a stake in one of the largest logistics companies in the country, mainly in Brazil. In the course of the upcoming merger of Thyssen and Krupp to ThyssenKrupp , the Thyssen Group sold its transport division in 1998 to the Belgian State Railways (NMBS / SNCB), which renamed the THL acquired in the process to ABX Logistics GmbH . As a result of differences of opinion with the new shareholder, several ABX managing directors soon resigned, including Kulenkampff in 1999.

He then went to Imperial Logistics International GmbH & Co. KG (from 2004 Imperial Logistics International GmbH ) based in Duisburg . Under the umbrella of the renamed Imperial Logistics International, the South African Imperial Holdings continued to run the logistics group nestrans Logistik GmbH , which it in turn bought from ThyssenKrupp Materials & Services AG in the course of the Thyssen-Krupp merger in 1999 . Among other things, JH Bachmann GmbH from Bremen, which Krupp bought in 1996, joined Imperial Holdings and Imperial Logistics International.

Kulenkampff became a member of the management of Imperial Logistics International and took over as chairman of the JH Bachmann Group in 2000 , which at the time had a turnover of 450 million DM . He strengthened JHB's international activities and, in addition to its classic sea and air freight divisions , further expanded the groupage transport, the “project transport” division and automotive logistics of the traditional Bremen company founded in 1775. When the subsidiary JH Bachmann, South Africa , merged with the South African freight forwarding company Megafreight in 2001 , Kulenkampff became a member of the board of the new company Bachmann Megafreight , based in Johannesburg . With a turnover of 1 billion rand (around 310 million DM) at the time, Bachmann Megafreight was one of the ten largest international freight forwarders in the country.

In 2005, Imperial Holdings sold JH Bachmann GmbH to the Danish logistics group DSV A / S , which JHB (now DSV Air & Sea GmbH ) integrated into its air and sea freight division, the DSV Air & Sea Division . After working for JH Bachmann for a total of 26 years, Kulenkampff left the JHB management team after the sale in 2005 and from then on worked in an advisory capacity for Imperial Logistics International; Among other things, he headed the corporate development department from 2006 .

Wolfgang Kulenkampff retired on April 1st, 2007.

Web links

• Conversation with Wolfgang Kulenkampff about JH Bachmann GmbH in the world (from August 17, 2000)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Corinna Laubach: "For us, Bremen is the center of the world" . In: Die Welt from August 17, 2000; Retrieved May 30, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Information on Wolfgang Kulenkampff  ( 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. . In: Presentation of the speakers in the circular from IET-Service GmbH , Berlin, from May 15, 2008, p. 3; PDF file, 91.29 KB, accessed May 30, 2011.  
3. ↑ Sören Jensen: Let's get away. ABX Logistics: The Belgian owners are creating chaos. Managers and cooperation partners are looking for a long way  ( 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. . In: manager magazin , No. 8/1999 of August 1, 1999, p. 15; Retrieved May 30, 2011.  
4. ↑ The history of the company ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: Imperial Logistics International corporate website ; Retrieved May 30, 2011. 
5. ↑ Imperial strengthens the forwarding agency on the Cape  ( page can no longer be accessed , 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. . In: Employee and customer magazine Imperial News , issue 1/2001, p. 2; PDF file, 3.34 MB, accessed May 30, 2011.  
6. ^ Annemarie Struss von Poellnitz: The branch of General Motors. DSV Air & Sea organizes European parts logistics for the American car company from Bremen. In: Kurier am Sonntag of May 29, 2011, p. 20.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Thank you, Wolfgang Kulenkampff!  ( 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. . In: Employee and customer magazine Imperial News , issue 1/2007, p. 7; PDF file, 1.45 MB, accessed May 30, 2011.