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Monday 13th February

Reinhard Mohn

Posted at 7:08AM Monday 05 Oct 2009

Reinhard Mohn, who died on Saturday aged 88, was one of Germany's most important post-second world war industrial leaders. He turned Bertelsmann from a small family-owned German publisher into a global media group and held strong views on the organisation of companies, which he was not afraid of sharing publicly.

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