Dr. Jan Klingele

Dr. Jan Klingele

Managing Director, CEO. Leads the family business in the 3rd generation.

  • Born on 12 December 1962 in Heidelberg as the son of Dr Werner Fred Klingele and Dr Brigitte Klingele
  • School years in Stuttgart
  • Studied business administration at the University of St. Gallen
  • Doctorate in economics at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim and the Anderson Graduate School of Management (UCLA) in Los Angeles on "The development of multinational companies"
  • Worked abroad, including in the USA, Switzerland, South Africa, Spain, Australia and Canada
  • After the death of his father in 1992, management of the Klingele Papierwerke family business group
  • From 2010 to 2016, management of the German "Association of the Corrugated Board Industry" (VDW) as Chairman
  • From 2012 to 2016 Vice President, from 2016 to 2020 President and since mid-2020 again Vice President of the Federation of European Corrugated Cardboard Manufacturers (FEFCO)
  • Chairman of the International Corrugated Case Association (ICCA) from 2020 to 2022
  • Active in numerous other associations, including on the board of "Unternehmer Baden-Württemberg" (UBW) and the Landesverband der Industrie (LVI), on the advisory board of the Vereinigung Pack- und Wellpappenpapiere, as deputy chairman of the Wirtschaftsverbände Papierverarbeitung (WPV), as chairman of the Großabnehmerverband Energie Baden-Württemberg e.V. and several years on the board (temporarily deputy/second federal chairman) of the Bundesverband junger Unternehmer (BJU)
  • Membership of Rotary