Norman Rentrop

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Norman Rentrop (born October 26, 1957 in Bonn ) is a German investor , publisher and author .

Life

Norman Rentrop was born as the first of five children to the auditor and tax advisor Friedhelm Rentrop . At the age of ten he bought his first shares and at fifteen worked as a local reporter in Bonn.

Rentrop is the owner and shareholder of Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft . Rentrop founded it in 1975 as the Norman Rentrop publishing house and moved to the supervisory board in 2000. The publisher is also the sponsor of the Sermon Prize and the Cicero Speaker Prize . He became known with the magazine Die Geschäftsidee , with which he sold ideas and instructions for setting up a business by subscription and for which he regularly switched to television advertising. Rentrop also owns the GeVestor publishing house, which supplies controversial stock market news.

Rentrop has a stake in the publishers Rentrop & Straton ( Romania ) and Wiedza i Praktyka ( Poland ) and is the majority owner of the Bibel TV Stiftung gGmbH, which operates the TV channel Bibel TV . Rentrop is the initiator of the donation-financed TV channel Bibel-TV and provided the start-up financing of 6.5 million euros.

In the past he sponsored the basketball community Bonn 92 , whose women's basketball team was represented in the Bundesliga. His private asset management includes Dr. Elsässer Beteiligungsgesellschaft Nr II mbH ., Which had taken over the shares of Deutsche Bank in Borussia Dortmund from 2003 to 2004 . Since 2001 he has been involved in the Rotary Club Bonn-Kreuzberg .

Rentrop is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Bonn Community Foundation and founding member of the Center for Value Investing . He volunteers as a member of the regional synod of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland and is deputy EKD synodal. In addition, he is a member of the sponsoring group of the congress of Christian executives , a member of the board of trustees of ProChrist and a board member of the Evangelical news agency idea .

Rentrop is married and has three children.

criticism

According to reports by Spiegel and Die Zeit, German consumer protection authorities have repeatedly warned against offers from the Rentrop group. The Stiftung Warentest also criticized the Norman Rentrop publishing house .

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References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c Norman Rentrop is 60: publisher and committed Christian , idea.de, article from October 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ Max Wermeyer, Wolfgang Zint: "When I'm awake, I think." , Interview with Norman Rentrop
  3. ^ " Buy for 50 marks, sell for 200" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1980 ( online - Sept. 1, 1980 ).
  4. ↑ Explosive stock tips: When investors threaten the end of the world . ( handelsblatt.com [accessed July 4, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Verlag Norman Rentrop: Unrestrained growth , ots.at, article from May 19, 1998.
  6. ^ Club and membership directory of Rotarians in the Federal Republic of Germany 2002/2003
  7. ↑ Announcement of the lecture on April 15, 2019 in the Parkrestaurant Rheinaue, accessed on March 20, 2019
  8. ↑ The publisher is a sponsor of the Center for Value Investing e. V. , currently Rentrop's name no longer appears there
  9. ↑ Kuratorium ProChrist e. V. ( Memento from September 7, 2010 on WebCite )
  10. ↑ Christian hip hop . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 2002, p. 99 ( online - September 30, 2002 ).
  11. ^ Zeit Online (December 12, 2002): The hard is glued like urge , accessed on April 6, 2019
  12. ↑ Stiftung Warentest (20.01.2000): Part-time Jobs - Only ripoff
personal data
SURNAME Rentrop, Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, author and investor
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn