======================================================================== PRESS KIT — JONAS SCHMITZ Entrepreneur · Networks · Long-Term Ventures ======================================================================== CONTACT Email: info@jonas-schmitz.com Address: Friedrich-Mohr-Straße 1, 56070 Koblenz, Germany Web: https://jonas-schmitz.com/en Response: within two working days. As a call back on request — leave a number in the contact form. For a deadline, please note it in the subject line. GUIDING THOUGHT „Business creates prosperity. Culture creates cohesion. Lasting progress happens where the two meet.“ ======================================================================== BIOGRAPHIES ======================================================================== SHORT — APPROX. 40 WORDS Jonas Schmitz is an entrepreneur working at the intersection of business, culture and society. He builds structures in which companies, institutions and people reinforce one another, with a long-term focus on cooperation, regional development and economic durability. MEDIUM — APPROX. 90 WORDS Jonas Schmitz is an entrepreneur whose work connects people, companies and institutions. His focus lies on developing long-term models, strengthening regional networks and advancing culture, innovation and social cohesion. Rather than building ventures in isolation, he develops structures in which several efforts reinforce one another and grow together. His work rests on five principles: responsibility, integrity, innovation, community and longevity. He is building toward a European network for business, culture and civic cooperation. LONG — APPROX. 160 WORDS Jonas Schmitz is an entrepreneur whose work connects people, companies and institutions across business, culture and society. One thing is characteristic of his work: rather than building ventures in isolation, he develops structures in which several efforts reinforce one another and grow together — an ecosystem in which economic success and social benefit are not in tension. His focus lies on long-term models, regional networks, cultural preservation and the conditions under which innovation can grow. Five principles govern the work: responsibility toward people, partners and society; integrity as the basis of trust; innovation that questions structures rather than surfaces; community, because nothing lasting is built alone; and longevity, measured in generations rather than quarters. He collaborates with companies, investors, public institutions and cultural organisations. His stated aim is a European network for business, culture and civic cooperation — held together by a single conviction: business creates prosperity, culture creates cohesion, and lasting progress happens where the two meet. ======================================================================== PUBLICATION ======================================================================== Kopfsache — “Erfolg beginnt im Kopf: Wie du mit dem richtigen Mindset alles erreichen kannst.” Paperback, 166 pages — published in German, July 2025. Available on Amazon and in selected EDEKA stores. https://amzn.eu/d/0hTJu0Nc ======================================================================== FEW PRINCIPLES, APPLIED WITHOUT EXCEPTION. ======================================================================== Responsibility — Toward people, partners and society. Entrepreneurs carry responsibility — for the people who work with them, for their partners, and for the communities their decisions touch. That responsibility is not a department. It is the standard by which a decision is judged before it is made. Integrity — Trust is built, never claimed. Trust comes from honesty, reliability and thinking beyond the immediate transaction. A commitment given is a commitment kept — even when circumstances change and keeping it becomes expensive. Innovation — Question the structure, not just the surface. Existing structures are examined rather than inherited. Where an established way of working no longer serves the people inside it, a better one is developed — carefully, and with respect for what already works. Community — Nothing lasting is built alone. Durable success is never the achievement of an individual. It emerges where people bring different strengths to a shared undertaking and each one is genuinely needed. Longevity — Generations, not quarters. The measure is not the fast result but the structure that still stands in twenty years. Decisions are taken with that horizon in view — economically, socially and culturally. ======================================================================== BUILDING SUCCESSFUL VENTURES IS NOT AN END IN ITSELF. ======================================================================== Bring people together: Connection happens where people genuinely meet — not where contacts are collected and filed. Connect organisations: Cooperation between organisations creates value that none of them produces alone. Make culture visible: Cultural substance is an economic asset — and deserves entrepreneurial attention. Help innovation grow: Good ideas rarely fail on their merits. They fail on access. Build durable structures: Structures that still carry weight once the initial enthusiasm has passed. ======================================================================== SUBJECTS ======================================================================== Enterprise as an ecosystem — Why isolated ventures carry less than structures in which efforts reinforce one another. Business and culture — Cultural substance as an economic asset — and what organisations gain by sustaining it. Regional networks — How local connections turn into genuine economic substance. Building for the long run — What it actually takes to think in generations rather than quarters. ======================================================================== QUOTES ======================================================================== „Business creates prosperity. Culture creates cohesion. Lasting progress happens where the two meet.“ — Jonas Schmitz „Ventures do not emerge in isolation. They emerge as parts of a shared ecosystem.“ — Jonas Schmitz „Durable success is never the achievement of an individual.“ — Jonas Schmitz „A life's work is not sold to the highest bidder. It is placed in the right hands.“ — Jonas Schmitz „To strengthen a region, you have to think of its businesses and its culture together.“ — Jonas Schmitz „The best partnerships begin long before a contract seals them.“ — Jonas Schmitz ======================================================================== WHERE THE WORK TAKES PLACE. ======================================================================== Entrepreneurship · Culture · Events · Networks · Real estate · Innovation · Regional development · Digitalisation · Society · Investment ======================================================================== NOTE ======================================================================== What is being worked towards over the long term is identified as such on this site and kept separate from what exists today. LONG-TERM AIMS – Establishing a recognised entrepreneurial presence across Europe – Developing a diversified portfolio of long-term holdings – Building a European network for business and culture – Strengthening regional economies and cultural institutions – Initiating international partnerships – Building sustainable assets and participations – Developing socially relevant undertakings with lasting benefit