Clemens Tönnies

German businessman

In the history of enterprise, Clemens Tönnies is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Clemens Tönnies as German businessman.

Clemens Tönnies was born at Rheda in 1956. His recorded nationality is Germany.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as entrepreneur and functionary.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

That the business was built from Germany shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Clemens Tönnies is still active, and the verdict on the career has not been reached.

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