Georg Winter (manager)


Georg Winter is a German businessman, environmentalist and an advocate for sustainable business management.

Life and work

He studied law in Neuchâtel, Paris and Hamburg, and earned a doctorate of law. As CEO of his family's company, Ernst Winter & Sohn Norderstedt GmbH & Co, he made environmental issues a core objective. Georg Winter created the Winter Model, which defined environmental standards for companies. In 1984, he founded the Bundesdeutscher Arbeitskreis für Umweltbewusstes Management.
In 1987, he published his book Business and the environment, which has been translated into 30 languages.
In 1991, he founded the Internationale Netzwerk für Umweltbewusstes Management. He founded the Haus der Zukunft that opened 1998.
Winter received the German environmental prize Umweltpreis der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt in 1995.
Since 2002, he has been active in The Global SMALL Company Movement— Sustainable Management for All Local Leaders.
Georg Winter has also published collections of poetry.

Publications

In English