Norman Rentrop (born 1957 in Bonn) is a German billionaire, publisher, author and investor.
A self-confessed admirer of Warren Buffett and longstanding shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, he is owner/shareholder of the German - based "Rentrop publishing group", "Rentrop & Straton" in Romania, "Wiedza i Praktyka" in Poland.
[1] Since 2002 he supported the satellite television channel Bibel TV with 6.9 million Euro.
[2] In 2004 he sold his minority shares in news channel n-tv to CNN.
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.