Frank Lehmann

Frank Lehmann is Germany's best-known stock market expert. The business journalist shaped ARD's financial reporting for almost 20 years and is considered a profound and humorous expert on the stock market. Born in Berlin in 1942, he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at the Frankfurter Rundschau before studying business administration and becoming a trainee at the business news agency vwd-Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste. After completing his journalistic training, he joined Hessischer Rundfunk, where he initially managed the regional news programs Tagesschau and Hessenschau and presented the ARD consumer magazine “PlusMinus”. In 1989, the broadcaster put him in charge of the business desk, and Frank Lehmann became the face of the Frankfurt stock exchange, reporting on the stock market with expertise and humor for the ARD morning show, midday show, Tagesschau and Tagesthemen. In 2001, the economic expert takes over the stock market television department and from then on initiates and presents the daily ARD program “Börse aktuell”. With up to three million viewers, it became one of the most successful TV stock market shows in Europe, partly because Frank Lehmann provided up-to-date, in-depth and clear information. The journalist ended his work for ARD in 2006 and has been passing on his knowledge of stock market psychology and investor behavior in lectures ever since. His talent for presenting even complex issues in a way that is easy to understand and investor-oriented makes him a sought-after speaker. He explains the rules of the stock market and financial world with a high level of expertise and clear, direct language. He is not afraid to bring overly exuberant analysts, fund managers or investors back down to earth with the warning “Greed eats brains” (after André Kostolany), and his Goethe evenings are another of his hobbyhorses. On the advisory board of the Children's Future Foundation, he volunteers for the youngest members of society.