Jan Kulczyk

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Jan Kulczyk

Jan Jerzy Kulczyk (born June 24, 1950 in Bydgoszcz , Poland ; † July 28, 2015 in Vienna , Austria ) was a Polish entrepreneur .

Life

Kulczyk was the head and owner of the Kulczyk Holding SA group named after him, as well as the founding president of the German-Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry and, from 2004, its honorary president.

According to the news magazine Wprost , his fortune in 2004 was estimated at 12.5 billion zloty (about 4 billion US dollars). He was the second richest Pole after Zygmunt Solorz-Żak . In the list of the richest Poles in 2013, he was ranked first by the financial magazine Forbes .

In 2004 he was suspected of having planned a non-transparent transfer of the Danzig refinery, part of the Polish oil company PKN Orlen , to Russian owners.

He died on July 28, 2015 as a result of complications during heart surgery.

His son Sebastian Kulczyk runs Kulczyk Investments SA , which Jan Kulczyk founded in Luxembourg in 2007 , to which Kulczyk Holding, which operates in Poland, belongs.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JAN JERZY KULCZYK ('50) - Wyszukiwarka - Internetowy Monitor Sądowy i Gospodarczy. Retrieved July 10, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Poland's richest man, Jan Kulczyk, dies at 65
  3. ↑ http://ludzie.wprost.pl/sylwetka/?O=67659
  4. ↑ 100 Najbogatszych Polaków. forbes.pl, accessed April 27, 2013 (Polish).
  5. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/sites/luizaoleszczuk/2015/07/29/polands-richest-man-and-legendary-investor-jan-kulczyk-dead-at-65/#62e3c7f121e4

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SURNAME Kulczyk, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kulczyk, Jan Jerzy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bydgoszcz , Poland
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 2015
Place of death Vienna