Ralf Dümmel
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Ralf Dümmel (born 2 December 1966) is a German entrepreneur, managing director of the family business DS Produkte and investor in the VOX founder show Die Höhle der Löwen.
Biography
Dümmel was born in Bad Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein.{{Cite web|title=Spezialist im "Non-Food-Bereich"|url=https://www.vox.de/cms/die-hoehle-der-loewen-investor-ralf-duemmel-im-portraet-2627808.html|access-date=7 August 2021|website=vox.de|language=de}} In 1988, he joined {{ill|DS Produkte|de}} as a sales assistant. The company was founded in June 1973{{Cite web|date=November 2015|title=DS Produkte – Zahlen und Fakten|url=http://www.dspro.de/fileadmin/dsprodukte/Bilder/presse/Fact_Sheet_20151217.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108135638/http://www.dspro.de/fileadmin/dsprodukte/Bilder/presse/Fact_Sheet_20151217.pdf|archive-date=8 January 2016|website=dspro.de|language=de}} and Dümmel was made partner in 1996. In 2000,{{Cite web|title=Ralf Dümmel ist neu in der Löwenrunde|url=https://www.vox.de/cms/ralf-duemmel-ist-neuer-investor-bei-die-hoehle-der-loewen-2624067.html|access-date=7 August 2021|website=vox.de|language=de}} he was appointed managing director. Under his management, the company became a global player. Subsidiaries were established in Poland, Hong Kong and elsewhere. In 2015, he was also a member of the supervisory board at VfB Lübeck.
As a soccer referee, he made it as far as the C squad of the DFB, but ended this for professional reasons.
Dümmel has been in a relationship with TV presenter Anna Heesch since 2013.
In 2016, he became one of the investors in German TV channel VOX's start-up show Die Höhle der Löwen, during which he has invested in more than 85 start-ups and supported more than 150 founders.
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External links
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- [https://m.imdb.com/name/nm10319362/ Ralf Dümmel] on IMDb
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Category:People from Bad Segeberg
Category:20th-century German businesspeople