Anita Countess Zichy-Thyssen

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Anita Countess Zichy-Thyssen (born May 13, 1909 in Bonn , † August 20, 1990 in Munich ) was a German subsidiary of the Thyssen entrepreneurial family and a major shareholder of Thyssen AG .

Life

Anita Thyssen was the only daughter of the German industrialist Fritz Thyssen (1873–1951) and his wife Amélie . Fritz Thyssen, who initially supported the NSDAP, came increasingly into conflict with the Nazi rulers.

In 1936 she married Gabor Ödon Graf Zichy zu Zich and Vásonykeö (1910–1972). During the war and after the confiscation of Thyssen's property, she lived at Puchhof Castle near Straubing in Lower Bavaria and later moved to Argentina with her husband. Fritz Thyssen died in 1951 during a visit. Half of his inheritance fell to Anita Zichy-Thyssen and her mother Amélie Thyssen.

Together with her mother, Zichy-Thyssen accompanied the organizational reconstruction of the Thyssen Group after the Second World War. On July 7, 1959, the two heiresses set up the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the Advancement of Science with a nominal capital of DM 100 million shares of the company, which has been trading as August Thyssen-Hütte AG since 1953 . It is the first large private individual scientific foundation that was established in the Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War. In the 1960s, Anita Zichy separated from the Lower Bavarian family castle Puchhof (municipality of Aholfing ) and lived in a house on Tegernsee and in Munich's Herzogpark.

Her mother Amélie Thyssen died in 1965, and Anita Countess Zichy-Thyssen left her father's small but valuable art collection to the Bavarian National Museum in Munich in 1986 . In 1988 there was a heated dispute with the Foundation's Board of Trustees over the occupation of the positions at the Thyssen Foundation and its influence on the foundation's capital.

The two sons Federico (1937-2014) and Claudio (* 1942) Zichy-Thyssen emerged from the marriage with Graf Zichy. In 1995 Claudio and Federico Zichy-Thyssen announced their withdrawal from Thyssen AG and sold their stake (15.38%) to Commerzbank AG . Since the two counts left the Supervisory Board of Thyssen AG on March 22, 1997, the descendants of the company founder have no longer held a stake in the company.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anita Countess Zichy-Thyssen , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/1991 of September 16, 1991, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ a b A process of unprecedented insolence . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1988 ( online ).
  3. ^ A b Fritz Thyssen, Amälie Thyssen, Anita Countess Zichy-Thyssen - The Founding Families - ThyssenKrupp AG
  4. ↑ Jürgen H. Wintermann: The Thyssen counts cash in. In: welt.de . September 5, 1995, accessed December 5, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Zichy-Thyssen, Anita Countess
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thyssen, Anita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1990
Place of death Munich