A Brief Look At Alfred L. Wolff, GmbH Company Profile and A Little About Those Involved


Alfred L. Wolff was a small private owned company with about 200 employees world wide. supplier and producer of raw materials and brand ingredients for the food industry. The company was established in 1901 and is based out of Hamburg, Germany.  It has subsidies and/or production units in China, Hong Kong, Mexico, Argentina, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. They pride themselves in providing the utmost care from producing to selling according to their business profile on confectionerynews.com. There were no official company website so it is unclear as to what their goals or standard are concerning CSR. However, many the sites that where a business profile was posted contained a link that led to a website where you could order their products. This shows that there is a lack of concern for anything besides selling and profits. The company was later taken over by Norevo GmbH.


Stefanie Giesselbach: Former national sales manger. Sentenced to one year and a day in prison. Was forced to reside in the US for over 5years while the trial took place and to carry out her sentence.


Stefanie Giesselbach, came from a good family and had never been in trouble with the law. She received the largest sentence in the laundering case,  and was only 19 years old when she landed a job at Alfred L. Wolff. She worked very hard and climbed the latter quickly. She was more than trilled to be excelling at her new job. By the time she was 28 she was promoted to national sales manager and was sent to Chicago in November of 2006 to replace Thomas Gerkmann. When she arrived Giesselbach claims that she was introduced to the laundering scheme and trained on how maintain it to by Gerkmann. After about 4 - 6 weeks Germkmann returned to Germany. Magnus Von Buddenbrock arrived in Chicago just 5 months after Giesselbach and was 30 years old. He too was introduced to the laundering scheme by executives in the company before they returned to Germany as well.




Sources:

Alfred L. Wolff Business Profile:
confectionerynews.com - https://www.confectionerynews.com/Suppliers/Alfred-L.-Wolff
Honey Laundering:
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/world/honey-laundering

 https://www.linkedin.com/company/alfred-l.-wolff-gmbh?trk=ppro_cprof

Comments

  1. AnonymousNovember 15, 2018 at 4:17 PM

    It's crazy how someone can start out at a company coming in as a good person with morals, and then eventually will sacrifice those morals for money. Do you think money was the only reason Stefanie did what she did?

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  2. Trevor DiDuroNovember 15, 2018 at 4:19 PM

    It's crazy how someone can start out at a company coming in as a good person with morals, and then eventually will sacrifice those morals for money. Do you think money was the only reason Stefanie did what she did?

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    1. UnknownNovember 15, 2018 at 4:54 PM

      I think that money was definitely a motivator for Stefanie but I also think there was a lack of ethical training. Stefanie was only 19 when she started working for ALW so it was all she really knew. The company was most likely unethical before she started, so she adapted to the companies norms.

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  3. Drew DestinNovember 16, 2018 at 7:20 PM

    Although the demise of Giesselbach is truly disappointing, it is yet another example of someone compromising their morals to achieve their personal dreams. This case however can be considered similar to the old story of the chicken and egg as just as one could argue the company's direction is what caused Giesselbach to act the way she did, she might have already have had these motives before beginning to work there.

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    1. UnknownNovember 16, 2018 at 8:09 PM

      I agree that it is a possibility that she already had those motives. I’d also like to add that I’m not trying to say that I think she isn’t responsible for her actions. She definitely is, she knew what she was doing was not legal and she did nothing to stop it. She was there because she wanted to participate. She admitted in her plea bargain that she knew of the scheme before she even arrived in Chicago.

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  4. AnonymousJune 6, 2023 at 2:13 PM

    Ist Frau Giesselbach verstorben?

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