Georg Winter
Georg Winter ( born 1941 in Hamburg) is a German manager and an environmental economist. He is considered the founder of an environmentally safe management approach in Germany. He was, among other tributes, 1995 awarded the German Environment Prize of the German Federal Environmental Foundation.
Life
After high school studied winter in Neuchatel, Paris and Hamburg Jura and wrote in 1973 the dissertation to liability of the shareholders in the bankruptcy of the undercapitalized GmbH. From 1968 onwards he was the managing partner of Ernst Winter & Sohn GmbH Norderstedt & Co, an engineering company that was owned by his family before. Early in his business career, he made the environment one of its main concerns. He designed, among other things, the so-called winter model, in which he defined environmental standards for companies and as a CEO also followed it. Winter pointed to opportunities to integrate environmental protection in product development, marketing and procurement of materials and enforce (see also Integrated Product Policy ). His concept of environmentally -oriented management ( Ecology -oriented Business Administration ) is known worldwide as the first of its kind and is the basis for the sustainable development strategies of many companies. In 1985, he led the first industrial building biology in Germany. As early as 1984 he had called the German Working Group for Environmental Management Association ( BAUM eV ) to life, joined him to this day several hundred companies.
In 1987 he published his book " The environmentally conscious company", which applies in business as a standard work for environmental protection and has been translated into thirteen languages. In all countries it was the first book on the subject. In 1991 he founded the International Network for Environmental Management (INEM ), now belong to him over 20 business associations Environmental Management. In 1995 he was honored for his involvement with the German Environmental Award of the German Federal Environmental Foundation.
As a result, he initiated the 1998, this house of tomorrow, a project that various non-profit organizations provides room that operate at the interface between industry and environmental protection. Since 2002, winter is also committed to the initiative SMALL ( Sustainable Management for All Local Leaders ). He is involved in the debate about the Muehlenberger hole in his Hamburg home. Since the 1970s, wrote numerous articles on winter eco-friendly and environmentally conscious economic activity.
A wide audience however, he was betting on September 30, 2006 in the entertainment show, dass. known, in which he successfully authored seven self reciting tongue twisters as betting candidate in a time limit, and betting became king. The writing humorous poetry is winter as a hobby, although he was able to achieve success with some publications here. The theater scholar, actress and elocution teacher Dagmar Puchalla he developed the method of speech sport, a " sporty, fun -bringing speech training ".
Writings
Conservation
- Georg Winter: The environmentally conscious company. A handbook of operational ecology with 22 check- lists for practice. Beck Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-32153-4.
- Jürgen Hopfmann, Georg Winter (ed.): Future in Germany. The program for the environmentally conscious entrepreneurs. Earthscan, 1997, ISBN 3-426-26939-2.
- Georg Winter (ed.): Ecological corporate development. Management in a dynamic environment. Springer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-540-61790-6.
- Georg Winter: The environmentally conscious company. The future begins today. Vahlen Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3406321534th
Poetry
- Georg Winter: The flea bard or the show of strange things. In 1986.
More titles
- Georg Winter: tongue twister. When Papa Grappa fluttered ... and other stumbling verses. Goldmann Verlag, Munich, January 2007, ISBN 3- 442-15460 -X.
- Georg Winter: tongue twister. Audio book, Random House Audio, Munich in December 2006, ISBN 3-86604-473-9.
- Georg Winter: The flea bard, ballads, audiobook read by Uwe Friedrichsen. Random House Audio, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86604-700-6.
- Georg Winter & Dagmar Puchalla: Talking Sports, Beltz 2011