Wolfgang Reitzle

German businessman

Wolfgang Reitzle belongs to the commercial record as a figure whose ventures outlasted the conditions that produced them.

The record lists Wolfgang Reitzle as German businessman.

Wolfgang Reitzle was born at Neu-Ulm in 1949. His recorded nationality is Germany. He was educated at Technical University of Munich.

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

He worked as engineer, entrepreneur and university teacher.

His recorded affiliations include Technical University of Munich.

Commercial success is easy to measure and hard to interpret; timing and market do much of the work.

Recognition followed: Bavarian Order of Merit, Hessian Order of Merit (2010), Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Ludwig Erhard Prize for Publications in Economics (2021).

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

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