ElectronicPartner Welcomes New Apprentices to Düsseldorf Headquarters
Supporting young talent remains a key element of…
Administrative Board
The administrative board of ElectronicPartner regularly aligns the strategic direction of the company with the executive board and discusses the implementation status of the business strategy. Therefore, it is involved in important, fundamental entrepreneurial decisions and planning.
The members of the Administrative Board are (from left to right):
- Michael Haubrich (Chairman)
- Rüdiger Haubrich
- Karl Trautmann
Michael Haubrich (Chairman)
Michael Haubrich was born in Düsseldorf in 1978 as the grandson of company founder, Karl Friedrich Haubrich. He studied business administration at the WHU Koblenz and economics at the London School of Economics. From 2004 to 2009, Michael Haubrich worked in the Budapest office of the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. From 2010 to 2019, he served as a board member of ElectronicPartner Handel SE, responsible for finance, accounting, taxes, group controlling, auditing, legal affairs, human resources, IT, and central services. In April 2019, Michael Haubrich transitioned to the administrative board of the cooperative group, where he has held the position of chairman since mid-2026. Additionally, he is a member of the supervisory board of notebooksbilliger.de AG.
Rüdiger Haubrich
Rüdiger Haubrich was born in Düsseldorf in 1969 and is also one of the grandchildren of company founder Karl Friedrich Haubrich. He studied business administration at Bielefeld University, where he graduated with a degree in business administration in 1997. Subsequently, he pursued human medicine at the universities in Munich and Düsseldorf. In 2004, he obtained full medical licensure. Until successfully completing the specialist examination in general medicine in 2012, he worked in various clinics, including in interdisciplinary emergency rooms and as an emergency doctor. Since then, he has been running a group practice for general medicine in Duisburg. He has held a seat on the Administrative Board of ElectronicPartner since 2012.
Karl Trautmann
Karl Trautmann was born in 1960. After completing his training as a bank clerk and studying economics, he joined the ElectronicPartner Group on July 1, 1990. He initially managed a consumer electronics store on Düsseldorf’s Königsallee before serving as branch manager and field sales manager in Hamburg. In 1995, he moved to the company’s headquarters in Düsseldorf, where he became the first Head of Multimedia Purchasing. In 2001, Karl Trautmann was appointed to the Executive Management Board and played a key role in shaping the development of the retail cooperative for more than two decades. After a total of 34 years with ElectronicPartner, he left the company at the end of 2024. Since mid-2026, Karl Trautmann has been a member of the ElectronicPartner Administrative Board.