In the history of enterprise, Otto Wolff von Amerongen is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Otto Wolff von Amerongen as German businessman (1918–2007).
Otto Wolff von Amerongen was born at Cologne in 1918. His recorded nationality is German Reich.
Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.
He worked as entrepreneur and board member.
His recorded affiliations include Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
Recognition followed: Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria and Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2000).
That the business was built from German Reich shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Otto Wolff von Amerongen died in 2007, aged 89. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
- Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany — 2000
- Affiliated with Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce
