Heidi Senger-Weiss

Heidi Senger Weiss

Successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics
Heidi Senger Weiss

Successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics
Heidi Senger-Weiss

Successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics Heidi Senger-Weiss (l.) with family
Heidi Senger-Weiss

Successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics
Heidi Senger-Weiss

Successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics
Heidi Senger-Weiss

Successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics
Heidi Senger-Weiss

Successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics
Heidi Senger-Weiss

Successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics
Heidi Senger-Weiss

Successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics
Heidi Senger-Weiss

Successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics Couple Heidi and Paul Senger-Weiss
Heidi Senger-Weiss

Successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics Marriage 1968

Heidegunde "Heidi" Senger-Weiss: successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics

Heidegunde "Heidi" Senger-Weiss (*1941) is the grande dame of Austrian transport logistics. She has generated numerous stimuli in terms of company management, internationalisation and employee motivation that have had a positive effect on the competitiveness of transport logistics beyond the borders of Austria and has therefore played a key role in the professionalisation of the transport logistics sector. She has contributed a great deal to the survival of family-run companies and their values, and has built up a European network for her own company. As an ambassador for logistics, she has successfully represented the interests of logistics and underlined the importance of logistics for the overall economy. In recognition of her achievements in the service of logistics, Heidi Senger-Weiss was inducted into the Logistics Hall of Fame in 2015.

Field	transport logistics, logistics services
Current position	member of the Supervisory Board of the Gebrüder Weiss transport and logistics company, Austria
Born	May 20, 1941 in Vienna, Austria
Died	Oktober 19, 2023, Austria
Induction into the Logistics Hall of Fame	2015, Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Berlin, Germany
Congratulary Speaker	Paul Senger-Weiss, member of the Supervisory Board at Gebrüder Weiss, Austria

Gala Reception 2015

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Vita

1941 Born on May 20 in Vienna

Attends primary and secondary school in Bregenz, Austria

1963 Awarded business degree of "Diplom-Kauffrau" at Vienna University of Economics and Business

1963 Two-year freight forwarding internship period in Switzerland, the Netherlands and the USA

1965 Joins the Gebrüder Weiss company

1968 Business management together with her husband, Paul Senger-Weiss

1972 Gebrüder Weiss is transformed from an "OHG" general partnership into a "GmbH" limited liability company; modernisation of the plant and equipment begins, accompanied by implementation of the internationalisation strategy

1988 Founding of the APS Austria Paket System parcel service together with two Austrian partners; operations in collaboration with DPD (Direct Parcel Distribution)

1989 Expansion into the neighbouring countries of Central and Eastern Europe

2001 Gebrüder Weiss launches the "ORANGE on time" express freight forwarding service in Austria; new locations are opened in Tianjin and Dalian in China

2005 After 36 years, Heidi Senger-Weiss moves from the operational management of the company to the Supervisory Board

2015 Induction into the Logistics Hall of Fame

Heidi Senger-Weiss has three children: Wolfram (Mag. oec. and MBA) born in 1971, Elisabeth (Dr. jur. and LLM USA) born in 1972, and Heinz (Mag. FH) born in 1974; Wolfram and Heinz Senger-Weiss have been Board members at Weiss AG since January 1, 2005, while daughter Elisabeth is a lawyer in Vienna
Merits
- Heidi Weiss was born in Vienna in 1941 as the only child of Ferdinand and Gertrude Weiss, and grew up in Bregenz on Lake Constance.
- After graduating in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business in 1963, she spent two years as an intern in freight forwarding companies in Switzerland, the Netherlands and the USA, before joining the family company in 1965.
- When her father died suddenly at the age of 66 in 1968, the then 27 year-old took over at the helm of the Gebrüder Weiss freight forwarding company. Together with her husband Paul Senger-Weiss, she headed the company for 36 years as Managing Director as well as CEO of Gebrüder Weiss AG, during which time she developed the company into the biggest Austrian logistics service provider. In 2005, she moved onto the Supervisory Board and chaired this body until mid-2015. Heidi Weiss is an entrepreneur and logistician through and through, and she is considered the "grande dame" of Austrian logistics.
- It was on her initiative (together with two partners) that the APS Austria Paket System parcel service, today called DPDA, was founded in 1988, soon becoming the market leader in the B2B segment in Austria and today still family-owned. DPDA cooperates closely with DPD (Direct Parcel Distribution) in the field of cross-border parcel services.
- Electronic Data processing was introduced in the Accounting unit back in 1974.
- Since 1989, Gebrüder Weiss has been expanding into the neighbouring countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as China, with the focus on the neighbouring countries during the initial phase. Offices were opened in Budapest, Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Maribor and Ljubljana, and later in Sofia and Bucharest. Today, these countries are called "WeissLand" for marketing purposes. During the same period, the first office was founded in the Far East in Shanghai, followed shortly after by an office in Quingdao. Expansion into foreign markets continued in the form of a joint venture and in close cooperation with Röhlig & Co.
- The company, whose roots date back 500 years, is still family-owned today. Due to the many ecological, economic and social measures it has implemented, Gebrüder Weiss is seen as a pioneer in the field of sustainable business activity and a role model for the management of a medium-sized family-run company. Two aspects that are considered to be particularly exemplary are the company's employee management practices and the preparation of the change of generation as of January 1, 2005, creating a team of two external managers and the sons Wolfram and Heinz.

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