It is widespread for household empires to finally go into the managerial arms of an outsider. Hardly ever does an inheritor later take again the reins. But that’s exactly what’s beneath approach at Bertelsmann, a German media colossus. After greater than 40 years of being run by a collection of employed bosses, the corporate has signalled that one in every of two brothers descended from its founder can be its subsequent chief. That is the newest stunning twist in a weird household saga.