Theo Müller (entrepreneur)

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Theobald "Theo" Alfons Müller (born January 29, 1940 in Aretsried ) is a German entrepreneur . He is best known for his company, the Theo Müller group of companies .

Life

Theo Müller grew up as the son of the dairy owner Alois Müller in Aretsried in Swabia . In 1971 he took over the management of his father's dairy with four employees. At the end of 1999 the Theo Müller group of companies with the well-known Müllermilch brand was the fourth largest milk processing company in Germany.

In Rainer Zitelmann's book Set yourself bigger goals there is a detailed biographical sketch about Müller. His secret of success is that he made branded products out of the interchangeable product “milk”. Zitelmann quotes Müller: "With a branded product such as 'yoghurt with the corner' I can earn around six to seven times more than with a standard product such as long-life milk, which anyone can produce." only around 15 percent of dairy products have a brand identity, in his group of companies it is around 50 percent.

Move to Switzerland

In 2003 the family moved to Switzerland, to Erlenbach on Lake Zurich , to escape German inheritance tax . At the same time as the family move, Theo Müller Holding (Switzerland) was founded in Switzerland in order to also tax the group's income in the more tax-efficient Switzerland, and thus reduce the total tax amount. In the years before, Müller had received subsidies in the three-digit million range for his dairy in Leppersdorf in the state of Saxony . The then German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is said to have expressed clear displeasure when he learned of Müller's tax evasion.

When lump-sum taxation was to be abolished in the canton of Zurich at the beginning of 2009 , from which Theo Müller also benefited, he threatened to leave the canton in advance of the referendum if the lump-sum taxation were abolished. Despite the abolition, he stayed in the canton.

family

Müller has seven children from his marriage to Hanna Bittmann and two daughters with his partner Ines Hüvel.

capital

Theo Müller was number 84 in the list of the richest Germans in 2010 with an estimated fortune of 1.3 billion euros. In 2012, his fortune was estimated at 2.5 billion Swiss francs by the Swiss business magazine Bilanz (63rd place); in 2013, he was ranked 527 on the Forbes list with an estimated fortune of 2.7 billion dollars and was thus among the list the Germans in 35th place and in 2014 he was 453th on the Forbes list with a fortune of 3.7 billion US dollars.

In the list of the 500 richest Germans in Manager-Magazin, Theo Müller was listed among the 25 largest fortunes in Germany in 2016 with assets of 5 billion euros.

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: Theo Müller (entrepreneur)  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Company portrait ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: muellergroup.com, accessed on November 3, 2013 (PDF file; 88 kB)> @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muellergroup.com
  2. ↑ a b Rainer Zitelmann : Set yourself bigger goals! The secrets of successful personalities , redline Verlag , Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86881-560-3 , p. 238.
  3. ↑ Theo Müller: "I don't live badly in exile" . Handelszeitung from August 20, 2013, accessed on November 2, 2013.
  4. ↑ Müller-Milch: Theo against the rest of the world . Balance from June 27, 2005.
  5. ↑ Patrik Müller : Everything tax or what? ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Switzerland on Sunday 9 October 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schweizamsonntag.ch
  6. ↑ Heads of the economy: Theo Müller ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Wirtschaftswoche from November 2, 2013, accessed on November 2, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiwo.de
  7. ↑ Theo Müller, the belligerent milk baron . Die Welt from January 30th 2010.
  8. ↑ 63rd place. Theo Müller.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Bilanz , accessed on November 3, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / tools.bilanz.ch  
  9. ^ "Forbes" list of the richest people: 57 Germans are dollar billionaires . Spiegel Online from March 4, 2013
  10. ^ Forbes list 2013, only German
  11. ↑ # 453 Theo Mueller , entry in the Forbes list, as of March 1, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Theo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Theobald Alfons (full name); Müller, Theo (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Aretsried