Fourth generation starts work at Deichmann
Germany-based footwear group Deichmann has announced that Samuel Deichmann joined the senior management team of the company at the start of August.
He becomes the first representative of the fourth generation of the Deichmann family to take a role in running the company.
His father, Heinrich, the company’s chief executive, said on making the announcement: “We see this step as a clear commitment to the continuity of our company as a family business and we want to keep up the values with which my grandfather, my father and myself have led this company.”
Samuel Deichmann’s great-grandfather, also Heinrich, set up a shoe business in Borbeck, near Essen, in 1913. It was his successor, Dr Heinz-Horst Deichmann, who turned the company into a national rather than just a local group. In the 1970s, he expanded internationally by taking over a footwear group in Switzerland.
The current chief executive joined the business in 1989 and has expanded it into a group with more than 4,000 shops in 30 countries.
At the start of 2020, Heinrich Deichmann said he preferred not to talk too much about his family for security reasons, but he said then there was a possibility one of his children would join the business and said this would be “the nicest thing ever”.
