Reinhard Mohn
Mohn is one of the preeminent founding personalities of the Federal Republic of Germany. With the creation of the Bertelsmann Lesering reading club (1950), he laid the foundation for a global corporation that at the time of his death had more than 100,000 employees operating in more than 50 countries. To this day, his name stands for values-driven entrepreneurship coupled with hands-on optimism, courage, fearlessness, and a pioneering spirit. Reinhard Mohn is unanimously acknowledged as an outstanding and formative figure of the German economic miracle, and his life’s work must be seen against this background.
