Rolf Rodenstock

Rolf Rodenstock (1 July 1917 – 6 February 1997) was a German industrialist who was born and died in Munich.

Rodenstock studied marketing and management graduating in 1944 with a degree as a Diplom-Kaufmann.

From 1956 to the beginning of the 1980s he was a professor for operational organization, industrial account systems, and technical-economical rationalization at the Technical University of Munich.

In 1953, after the death of his father, he took over the line of the G. Rodenstock optical works as the CEO.

Among many other activities, Rolf Rodenstock served as president of the Chamber of Commerce of Munich and Upper Bavaria from 1971 to 1990 as well as of the Federal association of the German Industries (BDI) from September 1978 through 1984.