uni'alumni 2016

market collapsed. At the same time, the companies were not in the position to raise enough of their own capital for new ships. So I said, we want to fly with the eagles, not cluck with the chickens on the ground. This involves obtaining access to the capital market. We need to be transparent, draw up our balance sheets quickly – and open up, maybe by taking on partners or entering the stock exchange. We became a joint-stock company in June 2015. But you’re still the sole owner. Yes, the annual shareholder’s meeting is a pretty lonely affair. Will it be painful for you to give that up? No. When I consider the company’s tradition, it would have been nice to continue running it on my own, but the amount of capital involved in running a shipping company is so gigantic that it would be almost impossible to do that. And this might sound sarcastic, but I’d rather have ten percent of Daimler than 100 percent of Lada. How do you envision the future of shipping? The ship will always remain the main means of intercontinental transport. Everything that is produced in China, which is today the world’s workbench, needs to be transported. I can’t send consumers their new televisions via a telephone line. Can you navigate a ship? I have a leisure boat license, but no captain’s license. However, after finishing school I spent almost an entire year at sea. That was a Rickmers family tradition. What do you like to do in your free time? I participate in regattas and play golf. That’s the number one sport in Asia. There’s a lot of discussion on golf courses over there. You play for a couple of hours and talk a bit of business. It’s a way to make contacts you wouldn’t be able to make sitting around a conference table. Alumni Network uni‘alumni 2016 Degree: Magister Artium in Political Science Fields of study: Political Science and Modern History; a bit of Sociology and English Studies Current position: I’m the marketing and sales manager at SC Freiburg; I’ve been working for the soccer club since 1994. Long-time fans will remember that this was the season when they unexpectedly almost became German champions. Culinary high point: The saxophonist Maceo Parker at the Freiburg cafeteria! My favorite meal at the cafeteria: Fresh greens from the salad bar they added when I was a student. A meal I liked less: Veggie burgers. We always used to subject them to a test: We’d drop a fork on them from 30 centimeters height. If they splattered, they were particularly disgusting on that day. Strangest experience at the cafeteria: There weren’t so many events at the cafeteria outside of mealtimes back then, so I don’t really have any special memories of the cafeteria. The best parties were at the Old University. But we enjoyed the lawn in front of the cafeteria all the more when the sun was shining: eating, chatting, kissing, or sometimes taking a nap when the previous night out had been too long. Personal notes: I have fond memories of my time as a student. For political science students like me, extra- curricular activities were an absolute must. This is where we prepared for life after the uni- versity in the most literal sense, though we didn’t know that yet at the time. I was in a political group and of course also in the student com- mittee of the Department of Political Science. At the 2015 welcoming event for beginning students, which was held at SC Freiburg’s Schwarzwald-Stadion, I had to smile when the represent- ative from the General Student Committee talked about how they had won back a political mandate for student representation. It took 36 years to bring back the legally constituted student government in Baden-Württemberg – a long way home. We talked about how much we wished for it throughout my student years – often while sitting on the cafeteria lawn. Will they splatter or not? Not all of the veggie burgers passed the quality test. Photo: woe, Barbara Pheby (both Fotolia) Hanno Franke enjoyed sitting on the lawn in front of the cafeteria. Photo: private Eating, Chatting, Kissing TALES FROM THE CAFETERIA: HANNO FRANKE Fresh greens from the salad bar they Veggie burgers. We always used to subject them to a test: We’d drop a fork on them from 30 centimeters height. If they splattered, they were particularly Strangest experience at the cafeteria: There weren’t so many events at the cafeteria outside of mealtimes back then, so I don’t really have any special memories of the cafeteria. The best parties were at the Old University. But we enjoyed the lawn in front of the cafeteria all the more when the sun was shining: eating, chatting, kissing, or sometimes taking a nap when the previous night out had been when the previous night out had been course also in the student com- mittee of the Department of Political Science. At the 2015 welcoming event for beginning students, which was held at SC Freiburg’s Schwarzwald-Stadion, I had to smile when the represent- ative from the General Student Committee talked about how they had won back a political mandate for student representation. It took 36 years to bring back the legally constituted student government in Baden-Württemberg – a long way home. We talked about how much we wished for it throughout my student years – often while sitting on the cafeteria lawn. Will they splatter or not? Not all of the veggie burgers passed the quality test. Photo: woe, Barbara Pheby (both Fotolia) 17

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