| Capital: | € 50 million |
| Age: | 62 |
| Born: | 6/23/1957 |
| Country of origin: | Germany |
| Source of wealth: | Entrepreneurs |
| Last updated: | 2022 |
Short introduction
Jochen Schweizer changed into born on June 23, 1957 in Ettlingen in Baden-Württemberg. He is commonly referred to as the founder and proprietor of the organisation “Jochen Schweizer” and as a former investor withinside the TV show “Die Höhle der Löwen”.
Early life
Jochen Schweizer changed into born in Ettlingen and grew up in Heidelberg. Here he additionally graduated from the Willy-Hellpach Business School. After graduating from excessive school, his direction led him first to Africa, which he crossed via way of means of motorcycle. After this journey, he skilled as a logistician. Simultaneously, he attended guides on the University of Freiburg.
Career
After finishing his training, he again to the African continent. More exactly to West Africa, wherein he performed transports for an global freight forwarder. He later rose to the pinnacle of the profession ladder and have become dealing with director of a department in Munich.
Jochen Schweizer’s profession as an impartial entrepreneur started in 1985 with the status quo of an occasion and advertising agency. At that point the organisation changed into nonetheless working beneathneath the name “Kajak Sports Productions”. It changed into most effective later that the well-regarded “Jochen Schweizer Unternehmensgruppe” could emerge. Schweizer identified early at the developing significance of amusing and intense sports activities. In the subsequent years, the organisation produced numerous movies handling amusing and intense sports activities.
In 1989 the primary desk bound bungee leaping facility in Germany changed into opened in Oberschleissheim close to Munich. This nonetheless exists these days and is now the oldest plant of its type in operation in Europe. In the years that followed, the organisation constructed greater such flora in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In the subsequent years the organisation multiplied its sports to different amusing sports activities events,
Due to numerous accidents, the organisation skilled an monetary disaster withinside the early 2000s. As a result, from 2003 onwards, the selection changed into made most effective to behave on experiences. These had been first presented withinside the shape of vouchers thru their personal branches. However, Jochen Schweizer fast found out that the Internet changed into an excellent income channel. As of 2004, the vouchers had been additionally presented at the Internet. In addition, numerous buying and selling companions which include discounters or ee-e book shops came.
It have become regarded in 2017 that Jochen Schweizer bought a majority stake in Jochen Schweizer GmbH to ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. MyDays operates a comparable offer, in an effort to be merged with Jochen Schweizer GmbH withinside the future.
About the organisation Jochen Schweizer Ventures, Schweizer additionally acts as an investor and has invested in numerous start-ups. This hobby attracted first rate interest among 2014 and 2016 whilst he seemed as an investor withinside the TV show “The Lion’s Den”. In latest years, Jochen Schweizer has more and more more seemed as a motivational speaker.
Career highlights
1985 – basis of the organisation “Kajak Sports Productions”
1989 – Opening of the primary bungee tower in Germany
2003 – Start of income of journey vouchers
2004 – Start of the sale of journey vouchers thru the Internet
2010 – Publication of his autobiography “Why human beings have which will fly”
2014 to 2016 – investor withinside the TV show “The Lion’s Den”
2015 – Market chief for journey vouchers in Germany
2015 – Publication of the motivational guide “The ideal moment”
2017 – Sale of a majority stake in ProSiebenSat.1 Media
2017 – Opening of the Jochen Schweizer Arena in Taufkirchen
Famous quotes
“Ultimately, it’s approximately getting up all over again than you fell.”
“I promote actual adventures, now no longer the phantasm of journey.”
“Experiences are the glue of each social relationship.”
“Wherever I am is wherein I start. I’m constantly at the start and in no way finish.”
“Courage is the capacity to triumph over fear.”
Amazing facts
Jochen Schweizer made bungee leaping famous in Germany.
He holds numerous global information in intense sports activities. Among different things, for the inner most bungee jump. In 1997 he jumped from a helicopter 1,050 into the depths.
He has seemed in numerous movies as a stuntman. For instance in “Feuer, Eis und Dynamit”, “Bandits” and “The Amanzing Race”.
