Bruno H. Schubert

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Bruno Heinrich Schubert (born October 25, 1919 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 17, 2010 there ) was a German entrepreneur , consul and patron .

family

Bruno Heinrich Schubert was the first son of the owner of the brewery Henninger Bräu Bruno Schubert and his wife Johanna Schubert née Henrich, who also came from a brewery family. Her grandfather, the secret Kommerzienrat Carl Henrich , was the first president of the German Brewers Association . The parents were friends with intellectuals and artists, including Max Beckmann . For the sake of his mother, he painted Schubert's birthplace, Wendelsweg 64. It now hangs under the name Der Wendelsweg in Frankfurt am Main in the entrance to the Kiel art gallery . The children of the privileged family were sent to elegant schools, first to the Schwarzburg elementary school and then to the Adlerflycht Realschule in Frankfurt-Nordend .

During the Second World War , Schubert was assigned as a sergeant in the anti-aircraft artillery. In 1941 he married his first wife Ingeborg († February 9, 2009 in Berchtesgaden , buried in the family grave at the forest cemetery in Oberrad ). In 1942 the father died of a heart attack. In 1944 the parents' house was bombed out. The mother moved to Frankfurt-Höchst with Bruno and the three youngest sons Hans Otto, Paul Adolf and Knut . The only other survivors of the war were Paul Adolf, who was trained in banking in Switzerland, Theodor, who acquired the Pepsi license for the North Rhine-Westphalia area and who is now painting in Mougins in southern France , and Günther (* 1922; † 2016), who built up a small group of companies (including the Arnsteiner Brewery Max Bender, Michelsbräu Babenhausen , and the malting plant Günther Schubert in Schweinfurt ), today managed by his daughter Dr. Susan Schubert and his granddaughter Catherine Freifrau von Schoen.

Bruno H. Schubert had one child, Hanns Peter Nerger (* 1947), who came from an extramarital relationship, who was managing director of Berlin Tourismus Marketing GmbH for 15 years until December 31, 2008 and who has headed the Bruno H. Schubert Foundation since 2009 . The actress Renate Schubert (1940–1966) was the biological daughter of his wife Ingeborg and his father.

Schubert owned the Bogensberglehen near Berchtesgaden, in which he repeatedly accommodated prominent guests, including state guests of Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , who was one of his friends.

In July 2009 Schubert married the Belgian Meharit Kifle, who came from Ethiopia and brought a son into the marriage. In October 2010, Schubert's stepson also took on his family name.

Schubert died on October 17, 2010 in Frankfurt am Main and was buried on October 23 in the Oberräder Waldfriedhof. The mourners included Frankfurt's Lord Mayor Petra Roth and the former Federal Foreign Minister Genscher.

As part of a murder investigation led by the public prosecutor's office, Schubert's body was exhumed in May 2012 for a forensic examination. Schubert's widow Meharit has been suspected of murder since spring 2014. Schubert's personal physician, Dr. Michael Mohn drowned under unexplained circumstances a few days after the police summoned the doctor for questioning in a small river in France.

Entrepreneurs and patrons

After 1945, Schubert expanded the Frankfurt Henninger Brewery into one of the most successful and largest breweries in Europe. In 1979 Bruno H. Schubert sold the company to Reemtsma in order to devote himself entirely to the new task of protecting the environment and the animal world.

In 1952 Bruno H. Schubert became Consul General of Chile . Since 1988 he has been the vice-priest of the Consular Corps of Frankfurt am Main. He is a founding member of the Frankfurt Zoological Society and WWF Germany .

He has received many honors and awards for his patronage and environmental protection efforts. In 1962 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Chilean government in the rank of Grand Officer with a star and shoulder ribbon. In 1979 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, in 1989 the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1996 the Hessian Order of Merit . The Honorary Senator of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main received honorary citizenship from the city of Frankfurt am Main in 2002 .

In November 1984, Schubert and his wife Inge founded the Bruno H. Schubert Foundation as a partner . The purpose of the foundation is the promotion of science and the implementation of scientific knowledge in the defense against threats to nature, animals and the environment.

Posthumous

Family grave of Bruno H. Schubert, his wife Ingeborg and daughter Renate in the forest cemetery Oberrad .

Schubert had initially set up his environmental foundation as the sole heir to his fortune. After the death of his first wife Inge and the marriage to Meharit, Schubert had revoked the inheritance contract in favor of Meharit. In this context there was speculation about his sanity.

A legal dispute is being conducted over Schubert's estate. On September 29, 2011, the Frankfurt Regional Court ruled that the contestation of the inheritance contract was formally effective. In January 2012 was estate bankruptcy filed and ordered a preliminary insolvency administrator. On July 10, 2013, the Federal Court of Justice confirmed that Meharit Schubert was the sole heir. Schubert effectively disinherited the environmental foundation he had established.

The actual amount of the fortune left by Schubert is unclear. Since November 2012, the tax authorities have been investigating a former lover of Schubert, Swetlana M., because she had not paid gift tax on valuable gifts she had received from Schubert. The trial ended in August 2015 with the conviction of Swetlana M. for tax evasion to a suspended sentence of one year and nine months.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno H. Schubert is dead , Bild.de, October 18, 2010 (accessed October 18, 2010)
  2. ↑ M. Besecke, J. Ortmann: Bruno Schubert says goodbye to his Ingelein. In: bild.de. Retrieved June 10, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Hilmar Hoffmann: The honorary citizen - From the life of the patron Bruno H. Schubert . Sozietäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-7973-0854-X
  4. ↑ Thorkit Treichel: family reunification . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 16, 2008
  5. ↑ Julia Jüttner: Bruno H. Schubert's estate: The bitter legacy of the beer king. In: Spiegel Online . July 10, 2013, accessed December 18, 2014 .
  6. ^ Matthias Bartsch, Andreas Ulrich: Millionaires: Expensive Preference . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 2010 ( online ).
  7. ↑ DPA: exhumed body of Bruno H. Schubert. In: FAZ.net . May 5, 2012, accessed December 18, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Denise Peikert: A thriller with an open ending. In: FAZ.net . November 12, 2015, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  9. ↑ - ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Henninger: In all glasses . In: Die Zeit , No. 8/1966
  11. ↑ Did the beer king Bruno Schubert die of thirst? In: welt.de . September 16, 2011, accessed December 18, 2014 .
  12. ↑ bild.de
  13. ^ Beer king Schubert and his poor widow. In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved December 18, 2014 (undated).
  14. ↑ One less construction site . In: Die Welt , July 11, 2013
  15. ↑ Bruno Schubert: Possibly more debts than inheritance . In: Die Welt , January 6, 2012
  16. ↑ Stefan Behr: Beer King Bruno H. Schubert: Further investigations against widow. In: fr-online.de. November 7, 2012, accessed December 18, 2014 .
  17. ↑ https://www.fr.de/frankfurt/bundesgerichtshof-org26523/bewaehrungsstrafe-bierkoenig-geliebte-11196228.html
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Bruno H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schubert, Bruno Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, consul and patron
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2010
Place of death Frankfurt am Main