Walter Wolf

Walter Wolf (born 5 October 1939) is a Slovenian-Canadian businessman who owned a Formula One team that won three races and is the name-sake of cigarette, perfume, and clothing brands.

After his father returned from a Soviet military internment camp in 1954, the family moved to Wuppertal in West Germany.

In 1993, Wolf helped finance the unsuccessful American fire apparatus company Firewolf Industries, housed in a former Piper Aircraft factory building near Lakeland, Florida, US.

The actor and vintage car collector L. Christian Mixon worked as a sales manager for this company briefly in 1993.

The Finnish broadcasting company YLE's investigative program MOT made claims that he was a mediator in the paying of bribes to Slovenian government officials, including Prime Minister Janez Janša.

Walter Wolf (standing on the left) in 1978