Rethmann (entrepreneurial family)

Rethmann is the name of a German entrepreneurial family from Selm .

family

Norbert Rethmann joined his father's business in 1961 and took it over in 1962. The family's current holding company, Rethmann SE & Co. KG , includes Remondis , Rhenus Logistics and Saria Bio-Industries (carcass disposal and bioenergy). Martin Rethmann took over the chairmanship of the holding company from his father in 2009.

In 1994, Norbert Rethmann purchased land in Wamckow , a district of Kobrow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Since 1999 he has also been the mayor of the Kobrow community. The Mecklenburgische Güterverwaltungs- und Dienstleistungsgesellschaft mbH and Co. KG manages 7,000 hectares of land and is owned equally by Norbert Rethmann's four sons.

In Kobrow, the family set up the Mecklenburg Carriage Museum , which opened on June 14, 2006.

The family's fortune is estimated at 6 billion euros.

genealogy

• Josef Rethmann
  • Norbert Rethmann (* 1939)
    • Martin Rethmann
    • Ludger Rethmann
    • Klemens Rethmann
    • Georg Rethmann

See also

• List of the 500 richest Germans

literature

• Stephan Mlodoch:  Rethmann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 447 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ruhr-Nachrichten ( online )
2. ↑ http://www.lokalkompass.de/marl/politik/rethmann-saria-gruppe-grosskonzern-will-industrieflaeche-im-landschaftsschutzgebiet-d379983.html