Handelsblatt Hall of Fame of family-owned enterprises

The Handelsblatt Hall of Fame of family-owned enterprises honors personalities for their outstanding performance in their companies and for the acting as a positive social role model. Patron of the initiative is the Minister of Economic Affairs Rainer Brüderle.

This award shall highlight that Germany as a business location is largely dependent on successful entrepreneurs who very often have set standards in visionary, sustainable and modern management over generations.

First impressions of the Hall of Fame 2012

The new laureates 2012 are:

Prof. Klaus Fischer, Owner and Chairman of the Executive Board, fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG
Martin Kannegiesser, Managing Director, Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH
Bernard Meyer, Managing Partner, Meyer Werft

Honorary members 2012 posthumously:

Margarethe Steiff
Johann Vaillant

JURY:

Gabor Steingart
Editor-in-Chief, Handelsblatt (Chairman)
Dr. Jürgen Großmann
Chief Executive Officer, RWE AG
Stefan Heidbreder
Managing Director „Stiftung Familienunternehmen“
Dr. Martin Herrenknecht
Chief Executive Officer, Herrenknecht AG
Prof. Dr. Rolf Nonnenmacher
Chairman EMA-Region, KPMG
Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler
Owner, INA Holding Schaeffler KG
Dr. Hubertine Underberg-Ruder
President of the Supervisory Board, Underberg AG
Prof. Dr. Horst Wildemann
Chair in Business Studies, Technische Universität München

LAUREATES 2011

Dr. Jürgen Heraeus, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Heraeus Holding GmbH
Dr. Markus Miele and Dr. Reinhard Zinkann, Managing Partner, Miele & Cie. KG
Gerhard Winklhofer, Honorary Chairman of the Advisory Board, Joh. Winklhofer Beteiligungs GmbH & Co.

Honorary members 2011 posthumously:

Robert Bosch
Hermann Bahlsen
Rosemarie Veltins

LAUREATES 2010

Friedrich von Metzler
Dr. Heinrich Weiss

HONORARY MEMBERS 2010

Melitta Bentz
Albert Boehringer
Carl von Linde
Carl Zeiss

LAUREATES 2009

Dr. Martin Herrenknecht
Prof. Berthold Leibinger

HONORARY MEMBERS 2009

Dr. Heinrich Dräger
Dr. Konrad Henkel
Irene Kärcher
Alfred Freiherr von Oppenheim
Emil Underberg I.

Welcome of Gabor Steingart, editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt

Member of the jury Dr. Jürgen Großmann and the laureates Markus Miele and Reinhard Zinkann

Member of the jury Maria Schaeffler

Gabor Steingart and the laureates 2011 Markus Miele, Reinhard Zinkann, Jürgen Heraeus, Werner M. Bahlsen, Susanne Veltins, Christof Bosch, Gerhard Winklhofer (left to right)

Dieter von Holtzbrinck, Franz Fehrenbach and Christof Bosch (left to right)

Beate Heraeus, Markus Miele, Matthias Redlefsen and Werner Borgers (left to right)

Fred B. Irwin, Linda Chamness, Dieter von Holtzbrinck and Ingrid Hamm (left to right)

Host:
Handelsblatt

Date:
18 January 2012

Location:
Munich