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Rudolf August Oetker (20 September 1916 – 16 January 2007) colloquially also R.A. Oetker was a German industrialist, businessman, ship owner and philanthropist. Most notably he turned Dr. Oetker , founded by his grandfather August Oetker , into a multinational food conglomerate.
Schweizer was born Roselie Oetker on 16 July 1940 in Hamburg, Nazi Germany (presently Germany), the oldest and only child of Rudolf August Oetker and his first wife Marlene Oetker (née Ahlmann). Her mother hailed from an industrial family that owned Carlshütte, an iron foundry with at times employed over 3,000 employees. [3]
Oetker's son Rudolf and his wife Ida had two children, Rudolf-August and Ursula; however, the senior Rudolf was later killed in the First World War. His widow Ida remarried Richard Kaselowsky, and they had four more children with Kaselowsky raising Rudolf-August and Ursula as his own. Kaselowsky became the manager of the company from 1920 to ...
August Oetker (German pronunciation: [ˈaʊɡʊst ˈʔœtkɐ]; January 6, 1862 – January 10, 1918) was a German inventor, food scientist and business person. He is known as the creator of baking powder as a ready-to-use product, and also as the founder of the Dr. Oetker company. [ 1 ]
Oetker was born 26 May 1915 in Bielefeld, German Empire, the older of two children, to Rudolf Oetker (1889–1916) and Ida (née Meyer). Her father died during World War I in Verdun, shortly before her younger brother Rudolf August Oetker was born. From her father, she received a relatively meager inheritance in comparison to her brother.
On August 12, 1937, the wife of baking powder manufacturer August Oetker, Lina Oetker, purchased the painting for 28,000 Reichsmarks. In 1968 it came to Rudolf-August Oetker through inheritance; since its founding, it was the property of the Rudolf August Oetker GmbH art collection. [3]
Richard Kaselowsky (14 August 1888 – 30 September 1944) was a German entrepreneur, industrialist, manager of Dr. Oetker, and member of the Nazi Party and Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft. He was the eldest son of the manufacturer Richard Kaselowsky, a deputy in the Prussian state parliament. [1] [2] He was the stepfather of Rudolf August Oetker. [2]
Rudolf-August Oetker was an active member of the Waffen-SS of the Third Reich. The company supported the war effort by providing pudding mixes and munitions to German troops. The business used slave labour in some of its facilities. The Oetker Family is among those German families, who have profited most from their close relations to the Nazi ...