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The Oetker family is a German entrepreneurial dynasty from Bielefeld, Germany, who made their fortune in baking powder. The Oetker family was established by patriarch August Oetker who was the founder of Dr. Oetker, a leading German food manufacturing concern, which employed 29,000+ employees worldwide (2023). [1]
The portfolio includes more than 300 individual companies in five different businesses, among them food (including Dr. Oetker GmbH and Coppenrath & Wiese KG), breweries (Radeberger Group), sparkling wine and spirits (Henkell & Co. Sektkellerei), banking (Bankhaus Lampe), and "further interests" (among them chemicals, financing, and participation, and a number of high-class hotels all over Europe).
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] He was the patriarch of the Oetker family.
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 (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. During World War II, Oetker was a member of the Nazi Party. [1]
Henkell & Co. Sektkellerei KG, today Henkell Freixenet, is a German producer [1] of Sekt (German quality sparkling wine), wine and spirits based in Wiesbaden.From 1958 until October 2021, it belonged to Dr. August Oetker KG.
Oetker was born 30 March 1939 in Bielefeld, Nazi Germany (presently Germany), the oldest of five children, to Heinrich Oetker, a farmer originally from Wiedensahl in Lower Saxony, and Ursula Oetker (née Oetker; 1915–2005), of the Oetker family. His parents were 8. cousins hence his name is the same in the paternal line. [1]
Alfred Heinrich Christoph Rudolf Oetker [1] colloquially Alfred Oetker (born 13 July 1967) is a Canadian-born German businessman and executive and member of the Oetker family. He is the third youngest son of Rudolf August Oetker and Maja Oetker. His net worth is estimated at $2.2 billion by Forbes magazine. [2]