Karl-Heinz Pawlizki.Photo: hagenwillsch
Cologne/Munich. Karl-Heinz Pawliziki, CEO of the Dorint Hotel Group in Cologne, will leave the company at Christmas after seven years and take over Arabella Hospitality S.E. Munich in the role of CEO on 1 January 2022. He will be succeeded at Dorint by the previous Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer Jörg T. Böckeler as Spokesman of the Executive Board.
Together with Bettina Schütt - from then on COO - he thus forms the new management duo of DHI Dorint Hospitality & Innovation GmbH with more than 60 hotels & resorts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This was announced by the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Dorint Hotel Group, Dirk Iserlohe, a few minutes ago.
Jörg T. Böckeler has been Managing Director for Operations, Marketing & Sales and Revenue since January 2018 and oversees the HOMMAGE Luxury Hotels Collection as CEO. Before joining the Dorint Group, he worked in leading positions at the Intercontinental Hotel Group, including as Regional Manager Australia in Sydney and General Manager in Düsseldorf and Berchtesgaden.
Bettina Schütt has been managing the Dorint Sanssouci Berlin/Potsdam for more than five years and is also Regional Director for the North area with eight other Dorint properties. Before taking on her management role with the Dorint Hotel Group, she worked for international hotel chains such as Swissôtel, Hilton and Scandic. She also gained experience with the Italian cruise line MSC.
To further support her, Frank Schönherr will take over the newly created position of Vice President Operations Germany as of 1 January 2022. Rob Bruijstens, previously Managing Director of Dorint Hotels & Resorts Schweiz GmbH, will simultaneously become Vice President Operations Austria and Switzerland. Both will actively support Bettina Schütt.
"I am grateful that I had an experienced finance manager and hotelier at my side in this difficult time of crisis," Dirk Iserlohe thanks his departing managing director. / kn