Wolfgang Grupp (* 4 April 1942 in Burladingen) is a German entrepreneur. He is the exclusive owner of the textile company Trigema, which was created 1919 by its father, consul Franz Grupp, in Burladingen in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Its school time spent Grupp in the Jesuitenkolleg pc. Blasien. After a restaurant study at the University of Cologne he took over 1969 the enterprise, which at that time was in acute financial difficulties, of its father. It succeeded to it in few years to reorganize the company.

In the public Grupp is particularly by an TV-advertising spot with a Schimpansen admits become. In numerous interviews it exerted itself for the economic situation Germany and the misalignment of jobs abroad criticized. Its business philosophy arouses the interest of the media due to firm success increasingly.

In the year 2005 Grupp received the CICERO speaker price in the category economics for its rhetorical commitment for Germany. The price from the publishing house for German economy and the publication the new speech advisor will assign. Reason of the jury for the price assignment: Grupp is a speaker, "in engaged and convincing way the position refers for the location Germany and urgently before the consequences of blind globalization striving warns."

Quotations by Wolfgang Grupp

• We entrepreneurs must ensure that our homeland runs economically. If I mean fellow men on the road set and different humans at the same time in other countries adjust, then I did not fulfill my obligation as an entrepreneur in a social free-market economy.
• The adhesion of the responsible persons must be given. With managers at least with the purchases, which got it in the enterprise. (...) In my enterprise I determine, since I carry the responsibility also to 100 per cent.
• Who goes today to the stock exchange, money needs and has a problem, which it loose will wants. It is for me indiskutabel that a stood entrepreneur goes to the stock exchange.
• I drove short-time work in my 33 years never, let alone guarantee, coworkers from lack of work quit and also today still to the children of our coworkers (...) a job.

Source of the quotations: Interview daily mirrors, see Related links

Related links

• To the Biografie
• CICERO speaker price 2005
• Interview daily mirrors with Wolfgang of the Grupp
• Article over by Wolfgang Grupp
• Wolfgang Grupp in the star interview

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