executive officer vice president
Adolphus Busch Orthwein was born on September 2, 1917 in Saint Louis, Missouri. His father was Percy Orthwein and his mother, Clara Busch. He grew up at Grant"s Farm in Grantwood Village, Missouri and summered at Red River Farm in Cooperstown, New New York
Orthwein graduated from Yale University in 1940.
Orthwein was kidnapped was Charles Abernathy, an unemployed realtor, on New Year"s Eve in 1930, when he was thirteen years old. His abductor"s father, Pearl Abernathy, returned Orthwein to his family on New Year"s Day. During World World War II, he served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy, tracking German submarines in the Caribbean Sea.
He served in the United States Naval Reserve in Saint Louis and retired as Lieutenant Commander.
Orthwein joined the family business, Anheuser-Busch. He served as vice president of operations until the late 1950s.
Additionally, he served on its Board of Directors until 1963. In the 1960s, Orthwein acquired Starbeam Supply Company, later known as Starbeam Supply Company.
The company, headquartered in Olivette, Missouri, sells lighting for large industrial spaces.
Orthwein was a three-goal polo player. He played polo until he was eighty-one. He was inducted into the Missouri Horseman"s Hall of Fame.
Orthwein was the Master of the Hounds of the Bridlespur Hunt, a fox hunting club in Huntleigh, Missouri.
He was also a duck hunter. Orthwein died of lymphoma on November 25, 2013 in Huntleigh, Missouri.
He was ninety-six years old. Another ceremony was held in Palm Beach, Florida.
He was buried at the Sunset Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Affton, Missouri, near Saint Louis, where his father was buried too.
