Thomas Lindner has been Chairman of the Management Board of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH since January 2014. Before that, the Frankfurt native spent more than 15 years at the publishing house Gruner + Jahr. For a long time, Lindner was responsible for the overall advertising management of the Hamburg publishing house’s “Stern” titles. In 2007, the business graduate became Managing Director of the Living title group. Shortly thereafter, he took over as managing director of the stern/Geo/art title group and as head of the G+J publishing site in Munich. He held this position until his move to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Thomas Lindner studied business administration in Münster and earned a Master of Business Administration from the Haas School in Berkeley.