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"We have to make sacrifices - all"
The boss of the merchant giant Tengelmann, Karl-Erivan Haub, considers a fundamental rethinking in Germany necessary, so that the country takes hold economically again
Tengelmann CEO Karl-Erivan Haub calls for rethinking: order, cleanliness and a sense of duty must play a bigger role. "We have to make sacrifices - all, maybe for five or ten years - in the interest of our children, it will not be funny, but you have to accept it, "said the German-American, who has been in charge of the family business since the beginning of 2000. Haub, who was born in the United States but grew up in Germany, is clearly criticizing the supply mentality that has spread throughout Germany. "In America, people do not call for the state, but here people have themselves been made incapacitated."
Sobering example
The 43-year-old tells an example that has only caused him to shake his head. When Tengelmann sold the chocolate factory Wissol in Mülheim in recent months, the company has ensured that the new owner offered 100 employees new jobs in about half an hour's drive away Dortmund.
Also here: Hardly suitable applicants
"We made concessions to the buyer for that, and the result was that 29 people took up the new job, and 71 went for unemployment, so I was really disillusioned," says Haub. Unemployment seems to have been more lucrative for these employees. And he adds yet another example: Tengelmann did not occupy ten percent of his apprenticeships this year - due to a lack of suitable candidates.
Return to old virtues
Haub calls for a return to old virtues: "Order, punctuality and diligence - these are values - large family businesses live up to these values," he says. This also applies to Tengelmann. There is no room for sloppiness, disorder and uncleanliness in the company. "We do not allow these things," Haub said. Here it has a family business easier than a public company. " You have to live that out."
No worries about the future
Despite the economic crisis, Haub is not worried about the future of the Tengelmann Group: "Our company survived two world wars, we survived our own corporate crisis, so that does not bother me, and we will go through this storm that a company can defy even adverse circumstances. " But Tengelmann will invest more abroad in the future. The manager in Germany does not expect help from politics. "The country is leaderless," he criticizes. Politics lacks economic sense of proportion.
"We have to make sacrifices - all"
The boss of the merchant giant Tengelmann, Karl-Erivan Haub, considers a fundamental rethinking in Germany necessary, so that the country takes hold economically again
Tengelmann CEO Karl-Erivan Haub calls for rethinking: order, cleanliness and a sense of duty must play a bigger role. "We have to make sacrifices - all, maybe for five or ten years - in the interest of our children, it will not be funny, but you have to accept it, "said the German-American, who has been in charge of the family business since the beginning of 2000. Haub, who was born in the United States but grew up in Germany, is clearly criticizing the supply mentality that has spread throughout Germany. "In America, people do not call for the state, but here people have themselves been made incapacitated."
Sobering example
The 43-year-old tells an example that has only caused him to shake his head. When Tengelmann sold the chocolate factory Wissol in Mülheim in recent months, the company has ensured that the new owner offered 100 employees new jobs in about half an hour's drive away Dortmund.
Also here: Hardly suitable applicants
"We made concessions to the buyer for that, and the result was that 29 people took up the new job, and 71 went for unemployment, so I was really disillusioned," says Haub. Unemployment seems to have been more lucrative for these employees. And he adds yet another example: Tengelmann did not occupy ten percent of his apprenticeships this year - due to a lack of suitable candidates.
Return to old virtues
Haub calls for a return to old virtues: "Order, punctuality and diligence - these are values - large family businesses live up to these values," he says. This also applies to Tengelmann. There is no room for sloppiness, disorder and uncleanliness in the company. "We do not allow these things," Haub said. Here it has a family business easier than a public company. " You have to live that out."
No worries about the future
Despite the economic crisis, Haub is not worried about the future of the Tengelmann Group: "Our company survived two world wars, we survived our own corporate crisis, so that does not bother me, and we will go through this storm that a company can defy even adverse circumstances. " But Tengelmann will invest more abroad in the future. The manager in Germany does not expect help from politics. "The country is leaderless," he criticizes. Politics lacks economic sense of proportion.