Dieter von Holtzbrinck

Georg- Dieter von Holtzbrinck ( born September 29, 1941 in Stuttgart) is a German publisher. He worked from 1980 to 2001 Chairman of the Board of the publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck. In addition, he was from 2001 to mid-2006 and its Chairman.

Life

Holtzbrinck is the elder son of the great become in the era of National Socialism publisher and entrepreneur Georg von Holtzbrinck (1909 - 1983) and his wife Addy von Holtzbrinck, born Griesenbeck (1913 - 2005), his siblings are Karin von Holtzbrinck and Monika Schoeller. Stefan von Holtzbrinck (* 1963 ) is his half brother.

1970 Holtzbrinck resigned after studying economics at the University of St. Gallen and a half years publishing internship in the U.S. as a managing partner in the Handelsblatt GmbH publishing group his father's. In 1980, Holtzbrinck of his father, the founder publisher Georg von Holtzbrinck, the CEO of the publishing group. In 2001 he handed over the business operations to its 22 -years-younger half-brother, Stefan von Holtzbrinck and took over the chairmanship of the Supervisory Board.

Mid-2006, Georg- Dieter von Holtzbrinck withdrew from the company and started his assets transferred to gradually in a family foundation. Prior to his private fortune was estimated at 1.0 billion U.S. dollars so he finished 2006 in the list of the richest people in Germany the 54th. The Forbes list of the richest people in the world in 2010 leads him with a fortune of 1.3 billion U.S. dollars on the 828th place.

Until the entry of Rupert Murdoch was Holtzbrinck Member of Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors of Dow Jones. The resignation Holtzbrinck wanted to protest against the takeover by Murdoch.

With effect from 1 June 2009, the newly founded by Dieter von Holtzbrinck, Dieter is von Holtzbrinck Media GmbH ( DvH media) take on important parts of the previously controlled by his brother Stefan von Holtzbrinck publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck, namely all the shares in the Handelsblatt publishing group ( three However, smaller publishers remain ), the Tagesspiegel group and 50 % of the publisher of the weekly Die Zeit, whose operational management takes over the DvH media.