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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).
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).
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]
Rosely Schweizer (née Roselie Oetker; born 16 July 1940) is a German businesswoman, heiress and former politician who served on the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg for the Christian Democratic Union between 1994 and 2001. [1] She owns a controlling stake of 12.5% in Dr. Oetker and has an estimated net worth of $2.8 billion. [2]
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.
Oetker was born 20 September 1916 in Bielefeld, German Empire, the second child of Rudolf Oetker (1889–1916), a chemist, who fell in Verdun before his son was born, and Ida Oetker (née Meyer; 1891–1944). He had an older sister; Ursula Oetker (1915–2005). Oetker served and volunteered in the Waffen-SS from 1941 to 1944.
For years after the war, Oetker would need a cane to walk. He was released from custody in 1947. He would elevate the company to a household name in Germany today. Dr. Oetker became one of the symbols of the post-World War II recovery effort in the country. Oetker died in 2007. [11]