O Entrepreneur Günther Fielmann is dead. The founder of the German optical chain of the same name died on Wednesday at the age of 84 years at your place of residence Lütjensee in Schleswig-Holstein, as announced by the Fielmann Group on Friday. He fell asleep peacefully surrounded by his family.
“The thoughts of our more than 23,000 employees in Europe, Asia and the USA are with Günther Fielmann's relatives today. Our sincere condolences and deep sympathy go out to his family, friends and associates. Günther Fielmann will thank us all with his customer-oriented approach for philosophy, his creativity and visionary spirit will be remembered as a pioneer of ophthalmic optics,” he continued.
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Fielmann changed the eyewear business in Germany. There is now a branch of its optical network in almost every pedestrian zone. In total 977 branches at home and abroad, more than 22,000 employees It is 27 million customers and customers were accounted for by Fielmann AG at the end of March 2023. annual sales was most recently (2022) in almost 1.8 billion euros.
After success came life in the countryside
Fielmann left the company in 2019 and handed it over to his son Marc. In addition to his business successes, Fielmann was involved as… Organic farmer. Fielmann also purchased and renovated Plön Castle; Ophthalmologists are trained there for the entire industry. Fielmann donated a lot to education, science and culture, ecology and nature conservation. He gave his employees shares in the company and planted a tree for each of them every year.
Fielmann Group Supervisory Board Chairman Mark Binz paid tribute to the deceased as a “businessman and visionary of the century. With strategic vision, a clear focus on customers' desires and an exemplary commitment to the common good, he influenced the German economy far beyond the limits of ocular optics and auditory acoustics.
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