Richard von Rheinbaben

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Richard Kreuzwendedich Freiherr von Rheinbaben (born May 12, 1960 in Essen ) is a German entrepreneur and patron .

Life

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Richard von Rheinbaben founded the publishing house von Rheinbaben & Busch GmbH with a partner in 1992, which developed speech recognition and translation technologies and produced the corresponding CD-ROMs . In 1996 he founded EBdirekt GmbH to sell these products. From this company, the Internet mail order company for books, CDs and other media was born in 1997, buecher.de GmbH, later AG, which was renamed mediantis AG in 2000 and which was listed on the Neuer Markt from 1999 to 2001. In 1999 buecher.de had already taken over the Central Directory of Antiquarian Books, the largest German-language online marketplace for antiquarian and used books. After the ZVAB was sold in 2011, the meta search engine Eurobuch was acquired. Richard von Rheinbaben is today chairman of the supervisory board of mediantis AG, which is managed by his brother Rolf Freiherr von Rheinbaben.

In 1998, Rheinbaben, who lived in Bolivia, Mexico and the USA for a long time, founded the ABC Foundation for Latin America with his wife to promote the schooling and professional training of children in Latin America with a foundation capital of around 300,000 euros.

Richard von Rheinbaben has been Honorary Consul of Bolivia for Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg since 2015.

On his initiative, the Phönix Art Prize was launched in 2005 to promote young artists, which with prize money of 20,000 euros is one of the most highly endowed prizes of its kind.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.boersenblatt.net/artikel-online-buchhandel.437651.html boersenblatt.net message from April 6, 2011, accessed on May 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ http://www.abc-stiftung.de/index2.php ABC Foundation for Latin America, accessed on May 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ https://konsulate.bayern/view-profile/Bolivien The directory of all 117 consulates in Bavaria, accessed on May 22, 2017.
  4. ↑ PHÖNIX - The Art Prize for Young Artists ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 22, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Rheinbaben, Richard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rheinbaben, Richard Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and patron
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH eat