Franz Burda junior

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Franz Burda junior ( junior , also "the III."; * May 24, 1932 in Offenburg ; † January 17, 2017 ibid.) Was a German entrepreneur and co-heir to the wealth of his father, the publisher Franz Burda senior ("the II. "). After he was not very successful with investments in companies in various branches of the economy, he withdrew from business life in the mid-1990s.

Life

Franz Burda was the eldest of the three sons of Franz Burda and Aenne Burda . He received universal training in the printing trade, initially as a typesetter and printer ( Swiss sword ), later as a gravure printer and etcher. From 1958 onwards, he worked in his father's printing and publishing company as operations manager. Later, until 1986, he became a managing partner of the Burda Group with the printing division.

Franz Burda senior retired from the company in 1985 and handed it over to his three sons, Franz jun., Frieder (* 1936; † 2019) and Hubert (* 1940). After his death in 1986, the three brothers agreed to split the inheritance, from which Hubert Burda received the core company (printing and publishing).

The older brothers Franz and Frieder received the quite considerable stakes in Axel Springer Verlag , a paper factory in Munich and a printing company in the USA, and combined them into F & F Burda Gesellschaft für Beteiligungen mbH & Co. They later sold the Springer stake. The company shares in the transport and logistics sector that were acquired from this income were not very successful and were later sold again - after sometimes high losses. In 1994 Franz Burda also transferred his 25 percent stake in his mother's publishing house, Aenne Burda KG , to his brother Hubert.

While his brother Frieder became known primarily as an art collector after his retirement as an entrepreneur, also in the mid-1990s , Franz Burda has hardly appeared in public since then.

Franz Burda was married for the second time in 1987 and has a son (* 1959) and a daughter (* 1964) from his first marriage. He died in his home in Offenburg.

Franz Burda used to be involved in Technocell and Organocell and in the former Bavarian pulp mill in Kelheim.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Power and splendor of colorful pictures . Die Zeit 48/1982, November 26, 1982, accessed on January 18, 2017.
  2. ↑ Offenburg: An era is coming to an end: Franz Burda junior is dead. Badische Zeitung , January 18, 2017, accessed on January 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ 23 December 2014 12:01 p.m .: Christmas 1994 - the end of an era. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Burda, Franz junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 2017
Place of death Offenburg