Advice and Assistance: Friends‘ Association of WFI (Förderkreis)

• Diploma in Business Administration and Executive Master of Business Administration (graduated at the WFI)
• Qualified Supervisory Board Member (QAIF), certified at the German Stock Exchange AG
• More than 25 years of professional experience in:

    - Commercial functions

    - Various industries

   - Group structures and medium-sized to larger organizations

• Position in management responsibility for more than 20 years; since 2006 as country or managing director (CFO)
• International experience in Eastern and Northern Europe

• since May 2019: Director of Economic Development and Digitalization at IFG Ingolstadt
• since September 2020: Head of the Economic Section of the City of Ingolstadt

Personal Data 

Name                                  Dr.-Ing. Peter F. Tropschuh

born                                    February 11, 1958

in                                          Ingolstadt

Marital Status                    married
                                             three adult daughters

School

1964 - 1968                         Volksschule St. Pius, Ingolstadt

1968 - 1977                         Reuchlin Gymnasium, Ingolstadt

Studies

1977 - 1982                         Technical University Munich
                                             subject: Mechanical Engineering

PhD

06/1988                              Technical University Munich
                                              Chair for Construction in Mechnical Engineering (Prof. Ehrlenspiel)

Professorship

03/2015                              Technical University Munich
                                             Chair for Automotive Engineering (Prof. Lienkamp)

Professional Activity

01/1983 - 09/1983            AUDI AG, Ingolstadt

10/1983 - 09/1988            Technical University Munich
                                              Assistent at the Chair for Construction in Mechanical Engineering

10/1983 - 09/1988            self-employed (Tropschuh engineering office)

10/1988 - 02/2024            AUDI AG, Ingolstadt
                                              in various functions

from 03/2024                      pensioner
                                              Tropschuh engineering office

Peter Heinrich is managing partner of HEINRICH GmbH Agency for Communication  in Ingolstadt. Since 2001, the communication expert and certified CSR manager (IHK) has been advising and supporting medium-sized and large companies in matters of public relations and CSR. In the field of CSR, his focus is on strategy consulting, stakeholder dialogues, communication and sustainability reports. Before becoming self-employed, the business administration graduate spent 20 years as managing director of a medium-sized, market-leading company with over 500 employees. Therefore, he has many years of expertise on the agency and corporate side. Heinrich is the editor of the books "CSR und Kommunikation" and "CSR und Fashion", both published by Springer Gabler. Among other things, he is voluntarily involved in the Committee on Responsibility of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Munich and Upper Bavaria and is a member of the executive committee of the Association of the leading communications agencies in Germany (GPRA).

• Jürgen Köhler, Deputy Head of Culture, School and Youth of the City of Ingolstadt and Managing Director of the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt Konzertgesellschaft mbH
• Founding member of the Supporters' Circle and Secretary since 1996.

Dr. Christian Jäkel studied business administration with the focus on "International Business Administration" at the Ingolstadt School of Management (WFI) of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. He then completed his doctorate at the Chair of International Management of the same faculty. At the same time, he was managing director of the executive MBA program of the WFI. After his doctorate, Dr. Jäkel worked for three family-run, partly international companies in the field of corporate development. Today he works as Head of Investment Management at Cordes & Graefe KG (GC Group).

Dr. Jäkel has always remained closely connected to the WFI even after his doctorate. He regularly holds guest lectures, conducts case studies with the students and supervises Bachelor's and Master's theses.

Stefanie Wendl holds a degree in business law (FH) and completed her MBA at the WFI Ingolstadt in 2019.
Ms. Wendl has been working in the local government for over 20 years. In the last few years, she first headed the office of the Cultural and Education Officer together with the department of Museum Administration and Controlling and then the office for Accounting and Taxes at the City of Ingolstadt. In January 2020, she took over the tax department position at the District Administrator of the District of Eichstätt.