Susanne Klatten Wiki, Age, Husband, Children, Family, Biography & More – WikiBio

Susanne Klatten is a German billionaire businesswoman and the richest girl in Germany. She is thought for being a stakeholder within the vehicle big BMW.

Wiki/Biography

Susanne Hanna Ursula Klatten a.ok.a. Susanne Klatten was born on Saturday, 28 April 1962 (age 59 years; as of 2021) in Bad Homburg, Germany. After finishing her faculty, Susanne enrolled on the University of Buckingham, England to earn a bachelor’s diploma in enterprise administration. On finishing her diploma, Susanne joined IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland to finish her grasp’s in enterprise administration.

Physical Appearance

Height(approx.): 5′ 4″

Hair Color: Blonde

Eye Color: Grey

Family

Parents & Siblings

Susanne’s father’s identify was Herbert Werner Quandt, and he was a German industrialist. Her mom’s identify was Johanna Maria Quandt, and she or he was a businesswoman. Susanne has a youthful brother, Stefan Quandt.

Herbert Werner Quandt with Johanna Quandt

Susanne Klatten together with her mom, and her brother, Stefan Quandt

Relationship

Susanne met Jan Klatten when she was working as an intern with BMW Regensburg. They each acquired married in 1990 and separated in 2018 attributable to unknown causes. They have three kids collectively.

Susanne Klatten together with her husband, Jan Klatten

Career

After finishing her bachelor’s diploma, Susanne began working at Young & Rubicam, an promoting company in Frankfurt. Further, she began working with Dresdner Bank in London. After her father died in 1982, Susanne acquired a 50.1% stake in a pharmaceutical and chemical compounds producer Altana. She is part of the supervisory board of the corporate and has performed a serious position in reworking the enterprise right into a world-class company to assist them obtain its place in German DAX’s checklist of the highest 30 corporations. In 2006, Susanne offered Altana’s pharmaceutical actions to the Swiss pharmaceutical firm, Nycomed for €4.5 billion, and this cash was divided among the many shareholders as a dividend. Susanne continued to be the bulk shareholder, and in 2009, she purchased nearly all of the shares of Altana. Altana and SKion had been two corporations which might be wholly owned and run by Susanne, and she or he additionally holds a 46% stake in Landa Digital Printing. In March 2009, SGL Carbon, a German graphite maker, revealed that Susanne can increase her shares to nearly 1 / 4 of the accessible shares. After her mom died in 2015, Susanne’s share in BMW grew to become 19.2%, and she or he was appointed as a member of the supervisory board alongside together with her brother, Stefan Quandt.

Susanne Klatten at a launch social gathering

Controversy

In 2007, Susanne discovered herself in the midst of an enormous controversy when she had an affair with a Swiss playboy/conman. His identify was Helg Sgarbi and he tried to threaten Susanne by saying that if Susanne gained’t pay him  €49m (£43m), then he would leak the movies and images depicting that the 2 have an affair. Despite all of the humiliation, Klatten filed a criticism towards Sgarbi and he was arrested by the officers at a motorway service station in Germany. Sgarbi easily executed his plan of blackmailing Klatten by assembly her at a Holiday Inn resort in Munich, and this encounter was recorded by both Sgarbi or an confederate. Later, Klatten admitted that she had given Sgarbi €7m after he informed her a faux story of how he wanted the cash to repay a household of an injured woman.

Helg Sgarbi showing within the court docket throughout a case listening to

Awards & Honors

In 2007, Susanne Klatten was awarded with Bayerischer Verdienstorden (the Bavarian Order of Merit.)

Address

Günther-Quandt-Haus
Seedammweg 55, D-61352 Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe,
Federal Republic of Germany

Net Worth

According to Forbes, Susanne Klatten’s web price is $30.1 billion, and she or he is 53 on the checklist of most wealthy individuals on this planet.

Facts/Trivia

• When Susanne met Jan Klatten, she used her alias identify Susanne Kant to keep away from her actual id. She did this to guarantee that Jan was critical about their relationship; nonetheless, Klatten denied the story.

• Susanne Klatten is an energetic supporter of the center-right political social gathering, the Christian Democratic Union, and she or he usually makes beneficiant donations to assist the political social gathering.

• Klatten is the founding father of the middle for innovation and enterprise creation UnternehmerTUM on the Technical University of Munich.

• In 2018, Susanne Klatten needed to pledge over 1.12 million shares to pay up for a mortgage that she had taken for an funding within the luxurious high-rise workplace constructing The Winx Riverside in Frankfurt. During an interview with Manager Magazin, she said-
  

  Our inherited wealth was a misunderstood burden and that folks underestimate the downsides of controlling billions.”

  

  The Winx Tower close to the river

• Susanne Klatten is the founding father of the Nantesbuch Foundation and the motive behind launching this basis was to present the individuals a spot they will go to to get away from the loud noises of the town. The new basis permits individuals to get nearer to nature as they take pleasure in artwork from numerous famend artists and take a stroll within the open discipline and gardens on the property.

• Johanna Maria Quandt was Herbert’s third spouse and from his earlier marriages, he had 4 kids. Before his dying, Herbert made positive that he divides all his companies equally amongst everybody to keep away from any future household disputes.

• In 2008, a German public broadcaster ARD launched a documentary ‘The Silence of the Quandts’ which talked concerning the position of the Quandts household through the Second World War. The documentary talked concerning the household’s involvement with the Nazis and their previous, which included slave laborers within the household factories. The documentary was launched and inside the first 5 days, 4 family members got here ahead on behalf of the entire Quandt household and provided to fund a staff to analysis the household actions throughout Hitler’s dictatorship. A Bonn historian, Joachim Scholtyseck, carried out the analysis and launched a 1,200-page research in 2011 and concluded that the Quandt household was linked inseparably with the misconduct of Nazis.