Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler

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Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler-Thumann (née Kurssa; born August 17, 1941 in Prague ) is an Austro-German entrepreneur who, together with her son, is a partner in Schaeffler AG . She is one of the richest Germans .

Origin and occupation

The Kurssa family was after the German occupation during the re-establishment of Czechoslovakia expropriated and fled from Prague to Vienna . Schaeffler's father was initially a financial advisor in Austria at the headquarters of the US armed forces and later General Director of Erste Allgemeine Versicherungs AG and its later successor Generali . Her great-grandfather was involved when the Laurin & Klement bicycle workshop in Jungbunzlau in Central Bohemia (now Mladá Boleslav) became the largest automobile manufacturer in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and later became part of the Škoda Group .

Having grown up in Vienna since she was four, she began studying medicine at the Medical University of Vienna after graduating in 1960 . As they then to 24 years old Georg Schaeffler met, who along with his brother Wilhelm in Bavaria, 1946 Herzogenaurach , industry GmbH ( sic !) (Then "INA Wälzlager Schaeffler oHG", "INA Schaeffler KG", "Schaeffler KG" "Schaeffler GmbH" and now "Schaeffler AG" as a group of companies for Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, FAG, LuK and the other national companies in North and South America and Asia), she dropped out of the 6th semester after completing her physics course from. In 1963 they married and they moved to Herzogenaurach. She then began studying business administration for a short time at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , which she did not graduate.

The Schaeffler Group is one of the 50 largest companies in Germany. In 2014 Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler held 20% of the company shares. Her son Georg FW Schaeffler has an 80% stake. Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler is chairwoman of the advisory board she founded after the death of her husband.

She has been a member of the University Council of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg since 2007 . She has been a member of the supervisory board of Österreichische Industrieholding AG (ÖIAG) since April 2008 and of the Continental AG supervisory board since February 2009 .

In connection with discussions about possibly required state aid for her company, criticism of her public appearance came up. In August 2009, the Schaeffler Group obtained refinancing with its banks in which state aid is said not to have played a role.

capital

  • On the list of the richest Austrians of the Austrian business magazine Trend , the Schaeffler family was in third place in 2007, in 2008 they were in fourth place with an estimated fortune of 4.1 billion euros.
  • On the list of the richest world of Forbes Magazine was with an estimated fortune of 8.7 billion mother and son in 2007 dollars out at No. 78, 2008, they are estimated at 8.5 billion US dollars ranked 104th
  • In the Forbes list of the richest people in the world, she and her son Georg , ex aequo with Johanna Quandt , ranks 89th worldwide and 7th in Germany with an estimated fortune of 9.8 billion US dollars .
  • In the Forbes list 2013, with a fortune of around 2.2 billion US dollars, she is ranked 670 of the richest people worldwide and 44th in Germany.
  • In 2014, the Bilanz magazine estimated her as the richest German with a fortune of 21.5 billion euros.

Private

Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler has both Austrian and German citizenship .

In August 2014 she married the former President of the BDI , Jürgen Thumann , in Kitzbühel , who was born on the same day as she.

Awards

The State Medal for outstanding services to the Bavarian economy did not get Schaeffler. The Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs, Ilse Aigner, canceled the award, scheduled for November 27, 2016 the day before. The minister justified the rejection with the plans of the Schaeffler board at the time to relocate ball bearing production in Elfershausen, Franconia , and to shut down the factory with 280 employees. This was apparently seen by Aigner as a breach of the site security agreed until 2020.

Web links

References and comments

  1. ^ Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler-Thumann. CV, offices and functions, honors and awards. In: schaeffler-group.com. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on October 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Heads of the economy: Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: wiwo.de (sources there: Munzinger Archive and FAS , May 11, 2003), accessed on July 15, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiwo.de
  3. ↑ Schaeffler at a glance: Employees , accessed on July 6, 2015
  4. ↑ A second son in the family died in an accident.
  5. ↑ At that time, Hubertus von Grünberg , the previous chairman of the supervisory board of Continental AG, also belonged to the advisory board
  6. ↑ Portrait: Maria Elisabeth Schaeffler , Wiener Zeitung 'July 14, 2008, accessed on November 8, 2013
  7. ↑ Appearance in Kitzbühel: Pelz und Staatsknete ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 28, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  8. ↑ Banks give Schaeffler air to breathe ( memento from September 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Financial Times Deutschland , August 18, 2009
  9. ^ "Trend": The 100 richest Austrians , ots.at, June 24, 2007
  10. ↑ Porsche & Piech is the richest family in Austria , Die Presse.com , June 22, 2008
  11. ^ Forbes Magazine , The World's Billionaires , list published May 2008
  12. ↑ Klaus Boldt: Aldi brothers remain richest Germans , manager-magazin.de, October 6, 2009
  13. ^ The World's Billionaires 2011. In: forbes.com. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  14. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/profile/maria-elisabeth-georg-schaeffler/
  15. ↑ These are the ten richest Germans , Die Welt Online, September 5, 2014, accessed on August 21, 2015
  16. ↑ Georg Weishaupt: Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler: The mysterious Matriarch , Handelsblatt , July 17, 2008
  17. ↑ Billionaire wedding - Schaeffler flitter on cruise ship. (No longer available online.) In: br.de. August 21, 2014, archived from the original on August 24, 2014 ; accessed on August 5, 2020 .
  18. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  19. ↑ Awarding of the Medal of Honor. Press release from Leibniz University Hannover. In: idw-online.de . June 2, 2010, accessed July 29, 2020.
  20. ↑ Angela Maier: Wilting dreams - how Schaeffler risks its future . In: Manager Magazin . No. 3/2017 ( manager-magazin.de [accessed on July 6, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Schaeffler, Maria-Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague