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"I have nothing to hide": Wolfgang Grupp consciously shows his private life in public

2022-06-17T03:09:58.467Z


"I have nothing to hide": Wolfgang Grupp consciously shows his private life in public Created: 06/17/2022, 05:01 By: Sina Alonso Garcia Wolfgang Grupp does not shy away from the media and even allows them access to his own four walls from time to time - as here in 2013 (archive image). © Felix Kästle/dpa (archive image) Unlike many other wealthy people, Trigema boss Wolfgang Grupp doesn't mind


"I have nothing to hide": Wolfgang Grupp consciously shows his private life in public

Created: 06/17/2022, 05:01

By: Sina Alonso Garcia

Wolfgang Grupp does not shy away from the media and even allows them access to his own four walls from time to time - as here in 2013 (archive image).

© Felix Kästle/dpa (archive image)

Unlike many other wealthy people, Trigema boss Wolfgang Grupp doesn't mind giving the outside world a glimpse of his private life.

His children appeared in the media at an early age and his home is anything but a secret.

Burladingen - The world of the super-rich often exerts a special fascination on the public.

Despite the enormous interest in the living conditions of the wealthy, many of them keep a low profile.

For example, there are hardly any publicly visible photos of Lidl founder Dieter Schwarz.

Black shuns publicity and nips any media advances in the bud.

Trigema boss Wolfgang Grupp - also known as "King of Burladingen" - handles the topic quite differently.

The company patriarch does not shy away from the attention of the press.

On the contrary: he even receives reporters at his home, presents his living room full of hunting trophies, his 46 meter long pool in which he swims every morning, his private chapel in which he prays and his knight's hall in which he celebrates.

The Trigema boss has already had a 675 square meter burial site built for himself and his family in the Burladingen cemetery - this is also a topic of conversation, not only in Burladingen.

At “Maischberger” Wolfgang Grupp openly shows his lifestyle and wealth

In a video excerpt, the

Maischberger (ARD)

program shows recordings of Grupp's spacious property in Burladingen and pictures of his helicopter.

There is also a scene in which the Grupp family eats lunch together while their in-house butler serves them.

Moderator Sandra Maischberger asked Wolfgang Grupp in her program: "Unlike many other very rich families in Germany, you show your wealth and your lifestyle very openly - why do you do that?" Grupp's answer comes like a shot: "I have nothing to hide.

That would be fatal if I said: Nobody is allowed to see that - then I would have a bad conscience."

"What I have or show here is not a castle or anything else," explains Grupp, referring to his home.

"It's a smaller house or something like that.

But I'll say it's well done and everything and I can show that because I've never owed anyone else and I always have liability and responsibility for all my decisions." Explanatory, he adds: "Before you as a taxpayer have to pay for me, as with all bankruptcies, I don't even have a roof over my head anymore because I'm full of my legal form e.

K.

(registered businessman, editor's note)

stand up for everything I decide.

And that is the difference between what is today - today they say: failure is not a problem.”

Wolfgang Grupp: "Failing on your own pocket, you have to do that first"

Grupp finds: "Of course it's not a problem if I can fail at the expense of the other person.

But to fail on your own pocket, you have to do that first.

And that is very rarely done today.

You make bankruptcy quickly and then it goes on merrily.

Even if you consider that our major customers Karstadt, Kaufhof, the mail order kings - Quelle and so on - went bankrupt, you could not have imagined that 30 years ago." The Trigema boss has already warned about today's managers from megalomaniac managers.

Instead of greed for money, Grupp is hoping for a greater sense of responsibility from junior executives in the future.

Source: merkur

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