Norman Rentrop is the first of five children of Friedhelm Rentrop, CPA. In 1975 he founded
Rentrop publishing. He made his A-Levels at the Jesuit boarding school Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn. Having been an exchange student to England he got his business idea: publishing a business magazine called Die Geschäftsidee which still is one of the flagship publications of his publishing company, which focuses on publishing newsletters and looseleaf services.[4]
Rentrop is main sponsor of BG Rentrop Bonn 92 e.V. a women's professional basketball team in the German WNBA.
His private investment office includes the "Dr. Elsässer Beteiligungsgesellschaft Nr II mbH" which in 2003 bought a major stockholding in one of the top German soccer teams, Borussia Dortmund from Deutsche Bank.[5] The stake was sold in 2004.
References
^"Bible television channel planned in Germany". Agence France Presse. January 11, 2001.
^"Germany Gains New Specialised Television Channels". INTERSPACE. pp. Section 750.
^"German n-tv minority sale". The Times. London. January 7, 2004. p. 20.
^"Lunch with Rupert not to everyone's taste". Guardian Unlimited. November 9, 2005.