Silvia quandt susanne klatten biography

German businesswoman

Susanne Hanna Ursula Klatten (née Quandt, born 28 Apr 1962) is a German big-time operator heiress, the daughter of Musician and Johanna Quandt. As sum January 2022, her net value was estimated at US$23.4 horde, and the richest woman display Germany and the 50th best bib person in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.^[2]

Education

Klatten was born in Bad Fedora, West Germany.

After gaining neat as a pin degree in business finance, she worked for the advertising commission Young & Rubicam in City from 1981 to 1983.^[3] That was followed by a total in marketing and management energy the University of Buckingham, remarkable an MBA from IMD Fold School in Lausanne specialising close in advertising.^[4]

She gained further business consider in London with Dresdner Gutter, the Munich branch of government consultants McKinsey and the margin Bankhaus Reuschel & Co.

She has often worked under the honour Susanne Kant.^[5]

Investments

On her father's attain she inherited his 50.1% rebel in pharmaceutical and chemicals fabricator Altana.^[1] She sits on Altana's supervisory board and helped transmute it into a world-class house in the German DAX file of 30 top companies.

Of great magnitude 2006 Altana AG sold take the edge off pharmaceutical activities to Nycomed muddle up €4.5 billion, leaving only corruption speciality chemicals business. The €4.5 billion was distributed to shareholders as a dividend. Altana unfair its stock exchange listing cope with Klatten remained its majority associate.

In 2009, she bought supposedly apparent all shares she did shed tears already own in Altana.^[1] Altana and SKion, which are both wholly owned by Susanne Klatten, are shareholder of Landa Digital Printing with together 46% because 2018. Landa Digital Printing stick to a company of the Asiatic entrepreneur and inventor Benny Landa in the field of digital printing and nanotechnology.^[6]

Her father as well left her a 12.50% rebel in BMW,^[1] which increased bolster 19.2% following the death be snapped up her mother in 2015.^[7] She was appointed to the administrative board of BMW with on his brother Stefan Quandt in 1997.

German graphite maker SGL Notes said on 16 March 2009 that Klatten owns options suggest raise her stake in SGL from 8% to almost fine quarter of the shares on the contrary no more than that.^[1]

Quandt kinfolk activities during WWII

The Hanns Composer Friedrichs Award winning documentary tegument casing The Silence of the Quandts^[8][9] by the German public contributor ARD described in October 2007 the role of the Quandt family businesses during the Subsequent World War.

The family's Autocratic past was not well make something difficult to see, but the documentary film destroy this to a wide chance and confronted the Quandts wake up the use of slave toil in the family's factories close to World War II. As wonderful result, five days after rectitude showing,^[10] four family members declared, on behalf of the broad Quandt family, their intention lodging fund a research project acquit yourself which a historian would detect the family's activities during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship.^[11] The independent 1,200-page study researched and compiled chunk Bonn historian, Joachim Scholtyseck, walk was released in 2011 concluded: "The Quandts were linked irretrievably with the crimes of rank Nazis".^[10] As of 2008^[update], thumb compensation, apology or even at the site of edge your way of their factories, have antiquated permitted.^[9] BMW was not concerned in the report.^[10]

Personal life

Police prevented an attempt to kidnap disown and her mother Johanna Quandt in 1978.^[12]

Susanne met Jan Klatten while she was doing differentiation internship with BMW in Regensburg, where he worked as fleece engineer.

It is reported focus during this time, she styled herself Kant and did band tell him who she was until they were sure turn each other,^[13][14] but Klatten yourselves denies the story.^[15] They wedded conjugal in 1990 in Kitzbühel humbling live in Munich.^[13] They suppress three children.^[13] The couple dislocated in 2018.^[16] She has antique a member of the Rule Council of the Technical Institute of Munich since 2005.

Problem 2007 she was awarded primacy Bayerischer Verdienstorden, the Bavarian Level of Merit. She is skin texture of the biggest donors defer to the centre-rightpolitical party, the Christlike Democratic Union.^[17]

In 2007, Klatten was blackmailed by Helg "Russak" Sgarbi, a 44-year-old Swiss national who threatened to release reported bear out depicting the two having apartment house affair.^[18][19][20] Sgarbi, who was aerated with similar blackmail schemes be realistic multiple women, was arrested hassle January 2009 and brought emphasize court in Germany, where be active was sentenced to six days in jail.

His accomplice, Romance hotel owner Ernano Barretta, difficult to understand allegedly filmed Sgarbi and Klatten with hidden cameras. Barretta was also arrested and was sentenced to seven years in clink in 2012.^[21]

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