Hans-Holger Albrecht was born on 29 July 1963 and is a German businessman.
15 Facts About Hans-Holger Albrecht
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Hans-Holger Albrecht was CEO of Deezer until 2021, one of the largest music streaming services worldwide.
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Hans-Holger Albrecht is the brother of Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.
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Hans-Holger was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1963 to Heidi Adele and Ernst Albrecht, a prominent CDU politician and European Commission official; the Albrecht family had been among the hubsche families of the Electorate of Hanover as doctors, jurists and civil servants since the 17th century, but his immediate ancestors had been wealthy cotton merchants in Bremen and members of the city-state's Hanseatic elite in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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In 1971, the family moved to Germany, where Ernst Albrecht became Premier of Lower Saxony.
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Hans-Holger Albrecht graduated in Law at the University of Freiburg in Germany, studied at Yale University, and received a PhD at the University of Bochum in Germany.
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Hans-Holger Albrecht is a descendant of Baron Ludwig Knoop, a cotton merchant of the city-state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the 19th century.
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Hans-Holger Albrecht worked for Daimler-Benz in 1990 and for the Luxembourg-based media group CLT forerunner of RTL Group from 1991 to 1996.
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Hans-Holger Albrecht worked on new projects for RTL2 in Germany, RTL 7, RTL Klub in Hungary, and Channel 5, in the UK.
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Hans-Holger Albrecht was responsible for the launch of the Super RTL channel in Germany and for the development of CLT's digital TV project, Club RTL.
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Hans-Holger Albrecht started his career at Modern Times Group MTG AB in 1997 as Head of the pay-TV operations at Viasat Broadcasting.
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Hans-Holger Albrecht became President and CEO of MTG AB on 1 October 2000, when the Kinnevik Group was chaired by entrepreneur Jan Stenbeck, founder of MTG and telecommunications operators Tele2 and Millicom.
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In November 2012, Hans-Holger Albrecht became President and CEO of Millicom, an international telecommunications and media company.
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Hans-Holger Albrecht became the CEO of Deezer in 2015 but stepped down in 2021.
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In January 2022, Hans-Holger Albrecht became chairman of the board of Storytel, one of the worlds leading streaming audiobook services.