
When Reinhard Mohn, the man who turned Bertelsmann from a printer of Protestant bibles in a small town in Germany to a global media company that employs 106,000 people, died on Saturday at the age of 88, it did not cause much of a stir.
By John Gapper
Published: October 7 2009 22:47 | Last updated: October 7 2009 22:47

When Reinhard Mohn, the man who turned Bertelsmann from a printer of Protestant bibles in a small town in Germany to a global media company that employs 106,000 people, died on Saturday at the age of 88, it did not cause much of a stir.