abstract:A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery.
Ron Sommer, Telekom's boss once a hero of Germany's nascent equity culture, but now a perennial target of shareholder groups and the press has fallen out publicly with Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, which last week sold a huge batch of Telekom shares, sending the share price plummeting (see article).