Trigema boss Grupp doesn't have a computer and can print out all emails - "I don't need something like that"
Created: 2022-06-20 09:31
By: Sina Alonso Garcia
You won't find a computer on Wolfgang Grupp's desk.
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There are probably few company bosses in Germany who manage a company as unconventionally as Wolfgang Grupp.
For example, the Trigema boss does not use a computer at all at work.
Burladingen - Many would have stopped working at his age long ago, but for him the age of 80 is not the end: Trigema boss Wolfgang Grupp.
The entrepreneur from Burladingen still watches over his textile company with eagle eyes and leaves no decision to chance.
Grupp was recently
joined at work for a day by a reporter from
BusinessInsider .
He was surprised to find that the head of Trigema works without a computer and has all e-mails printed out.
Trigema boss Wolfgang Grupp on computers: "I don't need something like that"
Grupp stands for the role of the traditional company patriarch like no other, as reported
by BW24
.
He attaches great importance to 100% domestic production and responsibility towards his employees.
An example: Grupp guarantees the children of its employees a secure apprenticeship at Trigema.
He is also known for his pithy sayings and his always neat demeanor.
The Trigema boss explains that he doesn't own a computer with the simple words: "I don't need something like that." As he told
BusinessInsider
, instead there is only an intercom, a landline and a mobile phone on his desk.
E-mails can be printed out.
As long as he is not traveling, his mobile phone is generally switched off and is in the closet.
An employee brings him a folder with the printed emails every day, and he dictates the answers into her pad.
Wolfgang Grupp has been the CEO of Trigema for more than half a century
Wolfgang Grupp shares his office with his son Wolfgang Grupp Junior, his wife and a few other employees.
Grupp's daughter Bonita also drops in from time to time.
As Grupp emphasized in an interview with
BusinessInsider
, he prefers direct, urgent calls to fixed meetings - especially if they take place in the evening.
"I don't have appointments in the evening anymore," he says.
Fixed appointments are "torment" for him.
At the age of 80, Grupp has been running the company for more than half a century.
He is currently proving himself more than ever as a crisis manager.
Trigema is struggling with rising energy costs due to the Ukraine war.
However, Grupp does not trust politics in times of crisis, as he recently emphasized.