Ulrich Bettermann: One of the last entrepreneurs from the old blow

Acquaintance of Merz, friend of Schröder, pilot, hunter and a rich man: Ulrich Bettermann, even at the age of 80, only sprays with adventure stories. Who is this patriarch from Sauerland?

Whoever enters Ulrich Bettermann’s office makes a journey back in time to the old Federal Republic. She breathes out anecdotes and becomes visible in pictures on the wall. Behind his desk hang signed photos, framed: Bettermann with Franz Josef Strauß in the cockpit of an aircraft. Bettermann shakes the hand of Helmut Kohl at a fair. Bettermann sits next to Hans-Dietrich Genscher on a couch in Baghdad. Bettermann stands next to Gerhard Schröder. To the right hangs a calendar, this month: Betterman, with gun in hand bent over a dead deer, the antlers larger than the body of the manager.

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