Richard Kaselowsky (entrepreneur, 1921)

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Richard Kaselowsky Junior (born September 29, 1921 in Bielefeld ; † March 11, 2002 there ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

His father was the industrialist Richard Kaselowsky (1888-1944), his mother was Ida, née Meyer, the widow of Rudolf Oetkers (1889-1916). He is also the half-brother of Rudolf-August Oetkers .

Richard Junior was badly wounded in the abdomen during World War II.

With the death of Caroline Oetker in 1945, both Ursula Oetker and Rudolf-August Oetker owned 45% of the company Dr. August Oetker KG . Richard Kaselowsky Junior held 10%.

His father had stipulated in his will that Rudolf August had to share the inheritance with his sister Ursula, but left him the option of paying his sister her share. Oetker had early paid his inheritance to his half-brother Richard Kaselowsky.

Kaselowsky junior was allowed to choose one of the companies in the group. He chose E. Gundlach AG (later Gundlach Holding ), Bielefeld, in which he took over the majority in 1949 and in which he became a member of the board.

In 1959 he converted the company into a limited partnership and thus became a personally liable partner. A year later, the printing company Gebr. Klingenberg GmbH in Detmold followed.

In 1995 Richard Kaselowsky handed over the chairmanship of the advisory board to his daughter Ingeborg von Schubert.

In 1963 he donated the German Record Critics' Prize . At that time, his Bielefelder Verlagsanstalt published the magazine Fono Forum, among other things .

literature

  • The Oetkers: shops and secrets of the most famous economic dynasty in Germany. 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Kaselowsky in the Coesfeld local family book , accessed on August 11, 2018