Georg Duffner (born May 18 1954 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) is a German businessman and business consultant. He was CEO of the Witzenmann Group (1990–1994) und of Vinci Germany (1995–2001) as well as Chairman of the Board of the Röchling Group (2001–2016). He was politically active in the 68 movement and has been a member of the German Green Party since 2011.
Education and career Duffner visited the Berthold Gymnasium (Secondary Grammar School) in Freiburg. He then studied Business Administration and Economics at Mannheim University (he received a scholarship from the German Studienstiftung) as well as computer science in Karlsruhe from 1980 to 1982. After his studies he started at the Witzenmann Group where he was promoted to CEO in 1990.Witzenmann bleibt auf Wachstumskurs. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 1. September 1992. In 1995 he joined the German Executive Board of the Vinci Group, the world market leader in construction services.G+H Montage wandelt sich zum Baudienstleister. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 19. März 2001. In 1997 he also took over the position of Chairman of the Board of Management of the G+H Group in Ludwigshafen, Germany.Wechsel von G+H zu Röchling. In: Mannheimer Morgen. 18. April 2001. In 2001 he joined the Mannheim Röchling Group as CEO, where he also took over the Automobile Division.Benno Stieber: Fallstudie Strategieschwenk: Röchling. In: Financial Times. 1. April 2009, S. 6–11. In 2016 Duffner decided not to extend his contract as CEO and was voted into the Supervisory Board of the Röchling Group.Personen. In: Börsen-Zeitung. 20. Januar 2016, S. 12 He is since then active as business and management consultant and holds a number of mandates in various supervisory boards.
Politics Duffner began his political activities in 1968Gegen Intoleranz und Rechthaberei. In: BILANZ – Das deutsche Wirtschaftsmagazin. 8. Februar 2016. in protest against the German Notstandsgesetze (Emergency Acts), later against the Vietnam War and the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. From 1976 he was a member of the Maoist Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland (KBW). He stood as a candidate for the KBW for the general elections 1976 in KaiserslauternDie Wahl zum 8. Deutschen Bundestag/Sonderheft. August 1976, S. 56. and 1980 in Karlsruhe.Die Wahl zum 9. Deutschen Bundestag/Sonderheft. September 1980.Georg Duffner 60. In: Börsen-Zeitung. 16. Mai 2014, S. 16. In 1982 Duffner was on the founders of the green alternative Karlsruhe city newspaper Gegendruck, where he worked as an editor until 1990. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Green Party. In 2017 he was elected to the local executive committee of the party for Karlsruhe/Durlach.
Publications
Georg Duffner: Natur und Ökonomie – Einige Überlegungen zu einer umweltbewussten Unternehmensführung. In: Jolanda Rothfuß u. a. (Hrsg.): Konstanten für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Konstanz, 1993, . Georg Duffner: Mechanistisches oder evolutionäres Management – Die Selbstorganisation im Unternehmen. In: Werner G. Faix u. a. (Hrsg.): Innovation zwischen Ökonomie und Ökologie, Landsberg/Lech, 1995, .
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