Rudolf Louis Schweizer is the new chairman of the advisory board of the Oetker Group. As the company announced, Schweizer is following August Oetker, who reached the age limit of 75 at the age of 75.
Schweizer is grandson of Rudolf-August Oetker (1916-2007), who had rebuilt the company after the Second World War. Following him, Rosely Schweizer and August Oetker, Rudolf Louis Schweizer is the fourth member of the founding family in succession to lead the advisory board. The 51-year-old has been a member of the board since 2012 and a member of the shareholders' meeting since 2010.
In 2017, the Oetker Group turned over € 11.6 billion in foodstuffs such as baked goods and pizzas as well as drinks, a banking house, chemicals and a shipping division that has since sold.
Quarrel among half-siblings
The Advisory Council, which is mostly staffed by non-family managers, elects the chairman from among its members. The body has a consulting, control and veto function.
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In recent years, the Oetker Group also stood by a family dispute in public. After the death of Rudolf-August Oetker, his eight children split off from three marriages.
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The older family branch around August Oetker prevented then that his younger half-brother Alfred, 49, took over the leadership in the food company. Instead, in August, August's brother Richard Oetker was surprisingly appointed CEO, he pushed the internationalization of the group forward.
August Oetker joined the Advisory Board. Again, not the half-brother Alfred took his heritage - but Swiss. He was previously on the board as the son of the daughter of Rudolf-August Oetker's first marriage.