Timotheus Höttges

Timotheus Höttges (born 18 September 1962) is a German businessman and Chief Executive of Deutsche Telekom AG, the majority shareholder of T-Mobile US.

He was born in Solingen in North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen). His father was an engineer, with three children. He went to the August-Dicke-Schule (named after August Dicke) in Solingen, one of four gymnasium schools (similar to selective grammar schools) in Solingen. He then did his Zivildienst - compulsory community work. Conscription in Germany finished in 2011.

He gained a degree in Business (Betriebswirtschaftslehre) from the University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln).

He worked for VIAG in Munich from 1992. VIAG joined with VEBA (Düsseldorf) in 2000 to form Düsseldorf-headquartered E.ON.

He joined Deutsche Telekom in 2000. From 2006-09 he worked on the T-Home brand, for internet DSL customers, and developed the Telekom Entertain (former T-Home Entertain) internet TV service into a market leader. He joined the company's Board of Directors on 5 December 2006. On 1 March 2009 he became Finance Director of Deutsche Telekom.

He became Chief Executive of Deutsche Telekom on 1 January 2014

Höttges is on the board of directors at FC Bayern Munich.

He lives with his wife Adriane and two sons, Jonathan and Balthasar, in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn, in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia. The headquarters of T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom are in Bonn.

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