Thomas Schaub

Thomas Schaub, a third-generation member of a family of publishers, owner of the Rheinpfalz, managing director of Medien Union GmbH and chairman of the editorial board of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Thomas Schaub was born in 1962 and took over the management of the company from his father Dieter Schaub in 1994. Dieter Schaub still holds a 2.2% stake in the asset management company Josef Schaub GbR. Thomas Schaub's grandfather, Josef Schaub, was a co-founder of the Rheinpfalz and laid the foundations for the Medien Union publishing group. Together, Thomas and Dieter Schaub hold 52.2% of Medien Union GmbH Ludwigshafen. The Schaubs rarely appear in public, and their publishing group Medien Union also does hardly any public relations work. Nevertheless, the family from Ludwigshafen owns a broad network of holdings in regional newspapers and radio stations. As chairman of the editorial board of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Thomas Schaub can also exert direct influence on one of the country's most important leading media.