Rosely Schweizer
Rosely Schweizer is a German businesswoman, heiress and former politician who served on the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg for the Christian Democratic Union between 1994 and 2001. She owns a controlling stake of 12.5% in Dr. Oetker and has an estimated net worth of $2.8 billion.
Early life and education
Schweizer was born Roselie Oetker on 16 July 1940 in Hamburg, Nazi Germany, the oldest and only child of Rudolf August Oetker and his first wife Marlene Oetker. Her mother hailed from an industrial family that owned Carlshütte, an iron foundry with at times employed over 3,000 employees.Her parents were divorced in 1942. Through her fathers two additional marriages, she has a total of seven half-siblings; August, Bergit, Christian and Richard and Alfred, Ferdinand and Julia. She completed her Abitur in Rendsburg and then studied economics at the University of Innsbruck in Austria obtaining a degree as Diplom-Volkswirt in 1964.
Career
Schweizer was a partner and advisory board member of Henkell & Söhnlein and until 2010, she chaired the advisory board of Dr. Oetker.Politics
Initially, Schweizer served on the municipal council of Murrhardt. Between 1992 and 2001 she served as a member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg.Personal life
In 1965, she married Folkart Schweizer, a businessman and later controlling owner of Louis Schweizer KG as well as Schweizer + Weichand who also hailed from an industrial family. He was originally from Murrhardt, Schleswig-Holstein. They have three children;- Rudolf Louis Schweizer, a Stuttgart-based private investor
- Georg Folkart Werner Schweizer, a principal of Louis Schweizer GmbH & Co KG in Murrhardt
- Carolina Schweizer, married to a Mr. Hiebl, a photographer