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{{Short description|German businessman (1918–2007)}}
[[Image:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F052084-0041, Otto Wolff von Amerongen.jpg|thumb|right|Otto Wolff von Amerongen, 1977]]
'''Otto Wolff von Amerongen''' (6 August 1918 – 8 March 2007) was an influential German businessman, who chaired [[Otto Wolff AG]], one of the largest trading groups in [[West Germany]].
His father was industrialist Otto Wolff, his mother Elsa von Amerongen.<ref name=iww>{{cite book
|title=The International Who's Who
|url=https://archive.org/details/internationalwho0000unse
|url-access=registration
|date=2000
|publisher=Europa Publications}}</ref>  On his father's death he became a board member and co-proprietor of his father's business, the Otto-Wolff-Konzern.<ref name=alpha>{{cite web
|url=http://alpha-management-gmbh.de/english/alpha_en.php?main=contact&sub0=history&sub1=wvamerongen
|title=Portrait Otto Wolff von Amerongen
|publisher=Alpha Management GmbH}}</ref>  In 1942, during World War II, he was sent to Portugal to handle import-export business for the firm.<ref name=alpha/>  He was briefly interned following the Allied invasion of Germany but was given responsibility for re-establishing the company's export business in 1947.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.otto-wolff.de/owha/content/geschichte_englisch.htm
|publisher=Otto Wolff
|title=Business History of Otto Wolff}}</ref>  On the 1966 flotation of the business, Wolff von Amerongen became chairman of the board, a position he retained for the next twenty years.
He held positions on the boards of other major firms.  In 1971 he became a director of [[Standard Oil]] of New Jersey, later [[Exxon]].<ref>{{cite news
|title=Executive Changes
|work=The New York Times
|date=October 28, 1971
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/28/archives/executive-changes.html}}</ref>
From 1955 he was Chairman of the German East-West Trade Committee, and served as Chairman of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1966 and 1990.<ref name=iww/> He was a member of the Steering Committee of the [[Bilderberg Group]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/former-steering-committee-members.html|title=Former Steering Committee Members|work=bilderbergmeetings.org|publisher=[[Bilderberg Group]]|accessdate=2014-02-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202095633/http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/former-steering-committee-members.html|archive-date=2014-02-02|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2001 he was awarded the [[Bundesverdienstkreuz|Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]], 1st Class.<ref name=alpha/>
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