Vienna University of Economics honours Paul Senger-Weiss
For many years, Heidegunde and Paul Senger-Weiss, the two members of the supervisory board of the family enterprise Gebrüder Weiss, have been committed to a high degree to the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In 2003 they received the “WU Manager of the Year” award.
Paul Senger-Weiss has been the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the WU Research Institute for Family Business since it was established in 2009. Now he withdraws at his own request. For his long-term commitment, he received a high award from the rectorate last week, the Goldene Ehrennadel of the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
The interdisciplinary the Research Institute for Family Business was founded in 2009 in cooperation with the Family Business Network Austria (FBN), which is financing projects in multiple areas. Paul Senger-Weiss had been the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the WU Research Institute for Family Business since it was established, and he is the Vice President of the FBN.
“I have met Paul Senger-Weiss as the most committed person to whom the support of research in the field of family business has always been a great concern. This cooperation is mutually beneficial. It contributes to the transfer of research results to practice and allows at the same time research on relevant research topics”, says WU Professor Hermann Frank, Head of the Research Institute. Stefan Pichler, Vice-President for Research, presented the WU Goldene Ehrennadel to Paul Senger-Weiss at the latest meeting of the Advisory Board on 8 June.
Paul Senger-Weiss was born in 1941 and graduated in economics from the then Technical University of Vienna, and also studied economics in the U.S. Together with his wife Heidegunde, who graduated from WU and is still very active in the WU Alumni Club, he took over the management of the freight forwarding company Gebrüder Weiss, in 1968, a very successful family company, which can now look back on a history of half a millenium. In 2005, the couple handed over the operational responsibility for the logistics group to the next generation and became Members of the Supervisory Board.