Jan von Haeften

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Johan Adam Werner Klaus Günter "Jan" von Haeften (born July 19, 1931 in Berlin ; † June 13, 2017 ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Von Haeften was the son of resistance fighter Hans Bernd von Haeften (1905–1944) and Barbara Curtius (1908–2006), daughter of the former Reich Minister and lawyer Julius Curtius . His mother was also arrested on July 25, 1944 after she had placed Jan and his siblings in the care of their grandparents. Nonetheless, he too was temporarily held in kin . His grandfather was the president of the Reichsarchiv Hans von Haeften (1870–1937). On his mother's side, Haeften descends from company founder Franz Haniel .

After attending private schools in Germany and Scotland , he did an apprenticeship at Rheinpreussen in Duisburg-Homberg and then worked for a sawmill in Bebra . In 1955, at the age of 24, he became managing director of Montan-Union AG in Vienna . In the 1960s, Haeften founded Lehndorff Asset Management in Hamburg with a partner .

From 1991 on he was a member of the board of directors of the Swiss Metro holding. In 2000 he succeeded Erwin Conradi as chairman of the supervisory board until May 2003. Until 2003 he was also chairman of the supervisory board of the Haniel group and head of the Haniel clan ; He was the head of a 250-year-old family company with an annual turnover of 20 billion euros. His successor was Franz Markus Haniel .

He ran a finca in Mallorca .

Haeften married on October 30, 1957 in Hamburg the daughter of the resistance fighter Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort Marie Eleonora (Nona) Countess von Lehndorff (1937-2018), from whom he divorced in 1973. The marriage resulted in two sons.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Metro: Conradi has to go. In: Spiegel Online . July 24, 2000, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Change in the Haniel Supervisory Board ( Memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ Obituary Franz Haniel & Cie. , SZ of June 30, 2017
  4. ↑ http://www.country-style.de/1999/h199/mallorca.htm ( Memento from May 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Haeften, Jan von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haeften, Johan Adam Werner Klaus Günter from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2017