Dr. Rainer Zitelmann studied history and political science and received his doctorate in history “with distinction” in 1986. Afterwards he was a research assistant at the Freie Universität Berlin, chief editor of the Ullstein-Propyläen publishing house, and desk head at the German newspaper Die Welt. In 2000, he founded Dr.ZitelmannPB.GmbH, which was the market leader in communications consulting for real estate companies. He sold the company in 2016 and received his doctorate in sociology with a dissertation on the “psychology of the super-rich.” Zitelmann has written and published 24 books, which have been translated into many languages. Every week he writes a column for Forbes.com.
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