It is widespread for household empires to ultimately move into the managerial arms of an outsider. Not often does an inheritor later take again the reins. But that’s exactly what’s beneath manner 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 among two brothers descended from its founder might be its subsequent chief. That is the newest shocking twist in a weird household saga.