Brigitte Mohn

Brigitte Mohn (born June 28, 1964 as Brigitte Scholz in Stuttgart-Degerloch, Baden-Württemberg) is a German entrepreneur and a member of the Mohn family that has a significant influence on Bertelsmann group and the Bertelsmann Stiftung.[1][2][3] Mohn is also chairwoman of the German Stroke Foundation's executive board.[4]

Brigitte Mohn
Brigitte Mohn (2016)
Born
Brigitte Scholz

(1964-06-28) June 28, 1964
Stuttgart-Degerloch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
NationalityGerman
Board member of
Parents

Life

Brigitte Mohn is one of three children of Liz and Reinhard Mohn.[5][6] After completing her secondary education in 1984, Mohn studied political science, art history and German philology at the universities of Bamberg, Münster and Augsburg.[7][8] In 1993, she received her doctorate from the Witten-Herdecke University.[1] In 2001, she completed an MBA at Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany, and the Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois, United States.[9]

Career

Brigitte Mohn began her career in 1993 as an editor at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.[10] Then she worked for Random House in the United States and Canada.[11][12] From 1997 to 1998, Mohn was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in Hamburg, Germany, before moving to Switzerland for her job at Pixelpark until 2000.[8]

In December 2001, Mohn was appointed chairwoman of the executive board of the German Stroke Foundation,[1] which was established by her mother, Liz Mohn, in 1993.[13][14] After joining the Bertelsmann Stiftung in 2002,[12] Mohn was appointed to the management board at the beginning of 2005.[15][16] She oversees programs covering health, communities and civil society, for example.[17]

In 2008, Mohn took a significant role at Bertelsmann group: She joined the Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft,[18][19] which controls the voting rights at the shareholders' meeting;[20] additionally, she was appointed to the group's supervisory board, where Mohn represents the sixth generation of the owner family.[21][22]

Other activities

Awards
  • 2009: Ethics in Business Award[26][27]
  • 2018: Erika Pitzer Prize[28]

References
  1. "Brigitte Mohn". Internationales Biographisches Archiv (in German). Munzinger. May 30, 2017. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  2. "Bertelsmann: Medienmonarchie aus Gütersloh". Handelsblatt (in German). January 30, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  3. "Schön & klug: Die Bertelsfrauen". Bunte (in German). April 24, 2003. p. 56.
  4. "Kuratorium" (in German). Stiftung Deutsche Schlaganfall-Hilfe. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  5. Matthew Karnitschnig (December 8, 2003). "Die komplizierte Romanze der Liz Mohn". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  6. Günther Bähr, Tatjana Meier (December 8, 2003). "Bertelsmann: Szenen einer Ehe". Focus (in German). p. 188.
  7. Petra Schlitt (August 27, 2007). "Brigitte Mohn: Vom Imperium befreit". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  8. Nina Klöckner (October 31, 2007). "Die Vielseitige: Nicht ohne meine Familie". Financial Times Deutschland (in German). p. 30.
  9. Jon Christoph Berndt (October 17, 2008). "Bertelsmann-Erbin Brigitte Mohn: Mensch, Marke!". Handelsblatt (Perspektiven) (in German). p. 19.
  10. Inga Michler (October 1, 2005). "Bertelsmann und die Familie Mohn" (in German). p. 11.
  11. Stefan Brams (April 8, 2004). "Die Frühschwimmerin: Brigitte Mohn spricht über ihre Arbeit und ihr Leben". Neue Westfälische (in German).
  12. Dagmar von Taube (August 4, 2002). "Die zweite "Bertelsfrau": Liz Mohn ist ihr großes Vorbild". Welt am Sonntag (in German). p. 12. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  13. Pete Smith (August 28, 2009). "Wirksame Strategien gegen den Schlaganfall". Ärzte-Zeitung (in German). Retrieved July 10, 2017.
  14. "Stiftung setzt auf Prävention und Aufklärung". Frankfurter Neue Presse (in German). June 2, 1998. p. 4.
  15. Hans-Peter Siebenhaar (July 20, 2004). "Der langsame Aufstieg von Brigitte Mohn". Handelsblatt (in German). p. 16.
  16. "Bertelsmann Stiftung neu organisiert". Börsen-Zeitung (in German). July 21, 2004. p. 11.
  17. "Management board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung". Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  18. "Bertelsmann: Mehr Macht für die Familie". Der Spiegel (in German). February 10, 2003. p. 81.
  19. "Brigitte Mohn rückt auf". Neue Westfälische (in German). February 12, 2003.
  20. "Reinhard Mohn verzichtet auf seine Stimmrechte". Börsen-Zeitung (in German). July 2, 1999. p. 13.
  21. "Brigitte Mohn zieht in Aufsichtsrat ein". Börsen-Zeitung (in German). December 18, 2007. p. 7.
  22. "Mohn im Aufsichtsrat". Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). December 18, 2007. p. 23.
  23. Peter Brors and Thomas Tuma (December 8, 2019), Lisa Ksienrzyk (December 9, 2019). "Dieses hochkarätige Team will den Startup-Verband umkrempeln". Gründerszene (in German). Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  24. "Personalien: Wechsel im Rhön-Aufsichtsrat". Börsen-Zeitung (in German). May 17, 2002. p. 7.
  25. Stefan Kritzer (August 20, 2020). "Münch verlässt Aufsichtsrat von Rhön-Klinikum". Main-Post (in German). p. 16.
  26. "Brigitte Mohn: Einsatz für das Gemeinwohl". Handelsblatt (in German). November 21, 2016. p. 53.
  27. "Ethics in Business Awards". World Forum for Ethics in Business. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
  28. "Brigitte Mohn erhält Erika-Pitzer-Preis". Süddeutsche Zeitung (dpa) (in German). September 5, 2018. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
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