Zeit Verlagsgruppe
Zeitverlag is the publisher of the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit". The company also publishes specialist journals, sells training programmes and communication services, operates a job market and is responsible for the online edition "Zeit Online". Since 1996, the ZEIT publishing group has been part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, which acquired the shares from the then recently deceased founder Gerd Bucerius. As of June 2009, both the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Dieter von Holtzbrinck Medien GmbH each hold 50 per cent of the shares in the ZEIT publishing group. Both owners belong to the Holtzbrinck publishing family.
Business Form
private
Legal Form
Limited partnership with a GmbH as the personally liable general partner (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, in short: GmbH & Co. KG)
Business Sectors
Further education; e-commerce; branded content; communication services; events; job exchange; book publishing; scholarship platform;
Individual Owner
Christiane Schoeller
Christiane Schoeller inherited the shares (25%) in Zeitverlag from her mother Monika Schoeller in 2019. Christiane Schoeller is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Holtzbrinck Group and does not otherwise appear in public.
Michael Grabner
Michael Grabner, the Austrian media manager, has been working for the Holtzbrinck Group in various capacities since the early 1990s. He was managing director and later became an operational partner. When the shares were split, he moved to DvH Medien and is currently chairman of the supervisory board. Grabner is also a member of the advisory board of the Mediengruppe Pressedruck (Augsburger Allgemeine) and a shareholder in the postal company PIN AG.
Other Print Outlets
Zeit Campus; Zeit Studienführer; Zeit für Unternehmer; Zeit Wissen; Zeit Verbrechen; Deutsch perfekt; Écoute; Ecos; Adesso; Spotlight; Business Spotlight; Kunst und Auktionen; Weltkunst; Zeit Germany; Zeit Geschichte; Zeit Leo
Other Online Outlets
Zeit Online
Media Business
Events
Good Conversations GmbH (100% der Zeit Online GmbH)
Language courses
Zeit Sprachen GmbH (100%)
Publishing
Zeit Credo GmbH (100%)
Online Media
Zeit Online GmbH (100%)
Art Publishing
Zeit Weltkunst Verlag GmbH (100%)
Business
Communication services
Studio ZX GmbH (100%)
Further education services
Zeit Akademie GmbH (100%)
Marketing services
Zeit Vermarktung GmbH (100%)
Scholarship and career platform
e-fellows.net GmbH & Co. KG (66%)
Job platform
Academics GmbH (85%)
GoodJobs GmbH (68%)
General Information
Founding Year
1961
Affiliated Interests Founder
was an important German publisher, lawyer and politician. He was born on 19 May 1906 in Hamm, Westphalia, and died on 29 September 1995 in Hamburg. Bucerius was considered an opponent of the Nazi regime and became a member of the Bundestag for the CDU after the war. Almost at the same time, he founded Die Zeit. In 1951, he acquired a majority stake in the illustrated magazine ‘Stern’ and a few years later became co-founder of the publishing house ‘Gruner + Jahr’. In 1973, he sold his shares to the Bertelsmann Group, of which he was a member of the Supervisory Board until 1991. Upon his death, the rights to Die Zeit were transferred to a foundation.
Employees
1200
Contact
Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG
Buceriusstraße, Eingang Speersort 1
20095 Hamburg
Phone: 040-3280 0
E-Mail: kontakt@zeit.de
Website: www.zeit-verlagsgruppe.de
Tax/ ID Number
DE189342458
Financial Information
Revenue (Financial Data/ Optional)
€ 291 Million (2022) / USD 306 Million
Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
Missing Data
Advertising (in % of total funding)
21%: € 61 Million / USD 64 Million (2022)
Management
Executive Board
Chairman of the Management Board since 2023, has been with Die Zeit since 1999. Esser is a lawyer and has already held various roles as Managing Director (Spotlight Verlag, Main-Post media group) in his career. He was also editor-in-chief of the legal journals Business Law Europe, Tax Letter Europe and European Business and Tax Law at the Bertelsmann International publishing group.
Chief Financial Officer since 2023, was previously Global CFO of RTL AdAlliance / RTL Group. Prior to that, she was CFO of Bavaria Film GmbH and CEO / CFO of 1-2-3.tv GmbH for several years.
Chief Commercial Officer, has been with the publisher since 2004 and was previously Managing Director of Zeit Akademie GmbH, which sells learning and training programmes. Von der Kall is committed to the exchange with foreign media companies, especially from Turkey. He held a fellowship in the ‘Future Forum Turkey Europe’ at the Mercator Foundation and is a member of the marketing working group at the Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ).
Chief Digital Officer, has been with Die Zeit since 2009 and was previously Managing Director of Zeit Online. At the beginning of his career, Röpke held a management position at the Financial Times Deutschland for several years. Röpke is also on the advisory board of the incubator nextMedia.Hamburg.
Non-Executive Board
President of the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and Professor of Sociology of Education and Labour Market Research at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Allmendinger is a member of the editorial board of Die Zeit.
CEO of mechanical engineering company Trumpf and also a member of the Advisory Board of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and BW-Bank. Leibinger-Kammüller is a member of the editorial board of Die Zeit.
Editor-in-chief of the ‘Economist’ and previously worked at the IMF and the Polish Ministry of Finance. Minton Beddoes is a member of the editorial board of Die Zeit.
Co-editor of Die Zeit and previously head of the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and managing director of Rowohlt Verlag. Together with Zeit editor-in-chief Di Lorenzo, Illies runs an art podcast and is the author of numerous books.
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