Tycoon industrial magnates, Magnaten or Mogule are called. A Tycoon controls and controls large parts of special branches of industry, whereby also usually its fortune comes. A typical example of a Tycoon from a special range is even a building lion, or real estate Tycoon.

In Russia and some the term Business Oligarch manifested itself post office-Soviet countries.

Word origin

The word Tycoon is derived from the Japanese word taikun. Directly translated this as much means to point out as high masters and in former times used around Japan visiting foreigner that the Shogun was the highest ruler of the country. The word became in 19. Century by the return of the Kommodore Perry taken up to the United States to the English language, and applied by coworkers to president Abraham Lincoln. In the economy the term is today still common.

Some well-known representatives

• Leo Kirch as medium Tycoon of the Kirch group
• Unternehmensgruppe_Theo Mueller as food Tycoon of the dairy Alois Mueller GmbH & CO. Kg
• Karl Hans Albrecht and Theo Paul Albrecht as Discounter Tycoons of the Aldi group
• Donald Trump as real estate Tycoon
• Steve Wynn as real estate Tycoon
• Bill Gates as software Tycoon of Microsoft

Related links

• List of billionaires
• Mogul
• Economics

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