Norman Rentrop (born 1957 in

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) is a German billionaire,

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and

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. A self-confessed admirer of

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and longstanding shareholder of

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, he is owner/shareholder of the

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- based "Rentrop publishing group", " Rentrop & Straton" in

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, " Wiedza i Praktyka" in

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. His charitable foundation holds 51% of the charitable

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foundation. Since 2002 he supported the

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channel

with 6.9 million Euro. In 2004 he sold his minority shares in news channel

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. Norman Rentrop is the first of five children of Friedhelm Rentrop, CPA. In 1975 he founded Rentrop publishing. He made his A-Levels at the Jesuit boarding school

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in Bonn. Having been an exchange student to England he got his business idea: publishing a business magazine called Die Geschäftsidee which still is one of the flagship publications of his publishing company, which focuses on publishing

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and

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s. In 2000 he moved from his position as

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to the non-executive position as chairman of the

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of his

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and started the charitable Rentrop foundation. Rentrop is main sponsor of BG Rentrop Bonn 92 e.V. a women's professional basketball team in the German WNBA. His private investment office includes the "Dr. Elsässer Beteiligungsgesellschaft Nr II mbH" which in 2003 bought a major stockholding in one of the top German soccer teams,

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from

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.Borussia Dortmund sale
/ref> The stake was sold in 2004.

References

External links

Official Website (English)

Germany's 24-hour Bible channel
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