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Reinhold (* 20 April 1935 in Baden-Wuerttemberg) is a German entrepreneur. It developed the screw trading venture with approximately 48,000 coworkers to the international market leader in the attachment and mounting technique. was from 1999 to 2003 a professor at the Interfakultativen Institut for Entrepreneurship at the University of Karlsruhe (TH).
Reinhold is the son of the wholesale buyer Adolf which created a screw wholesale business for the carpenter and metal handicraft in the hohenlohischen in July 1945. The decided to do without its own production of the products and concentrate primarily on the trade. At school Reinhold was a introvertierter pupil and a child spoiled by the nut/mother Alma who were interested more in the musischen things of the life. It received instruction in violin. But at the age of ten years its father Adolf already used it for activities in the family business. When its son became fourteen, it logged out it from the high school (~ six-form high school) and adjusted it 1949 as an apprentice and second coworker in its wholesale establishment for screws in Five years it experienced now under tutelage of its father a hard regiment, but was it for it in the review very instructive and profitable years. Completely besides he had taken over an important market strategy of his father: the internationalization of the trade. It was allowed to accompany it on business trips abroad German-language and experienced thereby the value of the export trade. assumes a Vorahnung of its early death behind the severity of its father, because due to an early Diphtherie illness its father at "heart weakness" suffered, i.e. he had probably a heart flap error.
When its father died, only nineteen was years old and took over nevertheless two years later the management. In the coming years it succeeded to to make from the regional trading venture a firm of world-wide reputation. From the outset it attached importance with its suppliers to high-quality quality and introduced in addition strict quality controls. Its customers come until today from the commercial and industriellen range. Only gradually turned into to buy up also screw producers. Since the domestic market for attachment technology was always very fragmented and economic situation susceptible, extended its trade to the foreign country. 1962 took place in the Netherlands the establishment of first foreign sales sale.
Today (2006) the group is also active over 351 market-active sales companies in world-wide 81 countries. It obtained a conversion of 6,89 billion euro, 60% of the gross income in the year 2005 is abroad gained. grows ", Stuttgart newspaper, 11 further in two digits. May 2006 1994 withdrew itself Reinhold from the operational management of the group and took over to 2006 the presidency of the enterprise adviser. From 1999 to 2003 he was institute leader at again created Institut for Entrepreneurship at the University of Karlsruhe, which is led since its ageconditioned separating of Werner. Its fortune becomes estimated from the manager magazine on 5 billion euro and lies thereby on place 8 in the list of the richest Germans. accumulated capital its fortune in a "donation Knzelsau", which is to resume the enterprise after its death. Together with its wife it transferred 1987 the family portion into a donation, which it leads as a chairman of the donation supervisory board as highest committee of the group.
hobbies in its limited spare time are beside the occasional company of its field representatives locally, which after its information such as vacation for it is, "the entrepreneur Reinhold ", SWR, 20 April 2005, documentation flies of business aircraft e.g. Cessna Citation and Dassault Falcon the 50EX and motorcycle driving with its Harley Davidson.
The success of the group is based not only on the top quality of its products, but also on an unusually high motivation of its coworkers. Apart from a basic salary the field representatives can in addition-earn themselves by a differentiated premium system extra pay. The company companies and foreign sales companies are to a large extent autonomous in their objectives, whose execution they must make however transparency. The confidence in the authority and autonomy of the coworkers comes also by an early introduction of flexible working hours without time registration devices to the expression and by the many offers to further training and spare time. Also on the quality of the operating celebrations a large care is put, since remains faithful for its principle also here that only a high commitment for its also an appropriate enterprise result entails coworkers.
changed over further during the architectural conversion of the foreign branches to leave to its coworkers when the selection of the architects and planning of representative administration buildings a free hand. In the enterprise center in the coworkers can visit an internal art museum, whose exhibitions three to four times change annually. It is world-wide the first combination of a firm building with an art gallery. In addition they have also the possibility, all pictures, with exception of the highest price category of lending from the collection in a company-owned Artothek for six months against a pledge.
is married with his Mrs. Carmen since 1956 and has with their three adults of children, Bettina, Marion and Markus, as well as five grandchildren. Bettina is member of the family of five enterprise adviser or getting thing of the group and has since 2006 the presidency.
Apart from its business activity Reinhold is an engaged promoter of art and culture, which maintains several museums. Among them the museum in and the arts center are in Swabian resound with modern art. The collection which is changing shown in the museums, belongs to the most important European private collections.
With its 1987 created donation it supports the culture work of the enterprise, among other things by the assignment of outstanding prices.
Further supports the museum for screws and threads and deer-landlord-scrubs as museum for the artist family summer. Besides places of issue in different European countries e.g. exist, like the forum Arlesheim in Switzerland.
A new art museum develops in Erstein with Strasbourg beside the French branch France, which obtained and beside the addresses in Italy and Spain among the most important foreign sales companies of the group ranks a conversion of 397 millions euro with 3.200 coworkers in the financial year 2005. The museum enclosure about 3,000 m and is to be opened in the autumn 2007 with works by Emil Nolde, max Ernst, liking rides, George Baselitz and Immendorff from the art collection shows Nolde in the Elsass ", Heilbronner voice, 11. May 2006
After a generous donation was renamed the branch office of the university Heilbronn in April 2005 in Reinhold university.
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