Johanna Quandt

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Johanna Maria Quandt (Berlin, 2012)

Johanna Maria Quandt (born Bruhn ; born June 21, 1926 in Berlin ; † August 3, 2015 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) was a major German shareholder ( Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (BMW AG)), founder and widow of the German industrialist Herbert Quandt .

Life

Quandt was the daughter of the art historian Wolfgang Bruhn and his wife Marianne (née Rubner). Her maternal grandfather was Max Rubner , who in 1891 took over the chair for hygiene from Robert Koch at the then Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin (today Humboldt University ) and headed the hygiene institute of the university clinic.

During the Second World War she trained as a medical-technical assistant and for some time worked as a nurse in the hospital service. After the end of the Second World War, she was an au pair in the USA for one year. In the mid-1950s she moved to the office of the industrialist Herbert Quandt. She later worked as his personal assistant and gained great influence on economic decisions. In 1960 she married the twice divorced. The children Susanne (* 1962) and Stefan (* 1966) emerged from this marriage . In 1978 an attempt at kidnapping her and her daughter Susanne Klatten was prevented by the police.

Johanna Quandt was one of the richest women in Germany . Among other things, she held 16.7% of the shares in the automobile manufacturer BMW , where she was a member of the supervisory board from 1982 and deputy chairwoman of the supervisory board from 1986 to 1997. After the death of her husband, she continued to develop his various holdings in the company and divided this legacy between her two children at the end of the 1990s. In 2011, they together held 46.7% of BMW ordinary shares . Her daughter Susanne Klatten and her son Stefan Quandt have been on the BMW Supervisory Board for twenty years.

In 2002 and 2003 she donated a total of 325,000 euros to the CDU and FDP , and in 2008, together with her two children, 300,000 euros. It was one of the largest party donors in Germany. In October 2013, she and her two children donated a total of 690,000 euros to the CDU.

The Quandts shared a dividend of around 365 million euros (2010) and 647 million euros (2011). The family's stake in BMW brought in more than one billion euros in two years.

Johanna Quandt was the bearer of the Bad Homburg vor der Höhe plaque of honor. She was buried in the forest cemetery there.

capital

Johanna Quandt's net worth was estimated at $ 13.9 billion. So she was ranked 77 on the Forbes list of the richest people of the year 2015 in the world and 8th place on the list of the 500 richest Germans of the manager magazin . According to Forbes, she was the second richest woman in Germany in 2015 after her daughter Susanne Klatten.

Quandt Foundation

In 1995 she set up the Johanna Quandt Foundation , which promotes the understanding of the market economy and private entrepreneurship as a carrier of economic development in the public and the media. In 2005 she was made an honorary senator of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main because of her commitment to the treatment of children with cancer in the University Hospital and the Frankfurt Children's Cancer Aid . In 2009 she was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit. Together with the Berlin University Hospital Charité , she founded the Charité Foundation in December 2005 , which is primarily intended to promote entrepreneurial thinking at the largest university hospital in Europe, but also to support scientific projects.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b City of Bad Homburg mourns Johanna Quandt. Magistrate of the City of Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe, August 6, 2015, accessed August 14, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Speech by Stefan Quandt on the 80th birthday of Johanna Quandt ( Memento from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Denis Staunton: Visions of Johanna , The Guardian , March 26, 2000
  4. ↑ t-online.de, What's next with BMW? , August 6, 2015, accessed February 1, 2016
  5. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/reichste-frau-in-deutschland-susanne-klatten-gewinnt-zwei-millionen-dollar-hinzu-1.3429207
  6. ↑ BT-Drs. 17/630 - Annual report of political parties for the calendar year 2008.
  7. ^ Information from the President of the German Bundestag .
  8. ↑ BMW profit fills Quandt cash register , bild.de.
  9. ↑ a b Obituary notice Johanna Quandt
  10. ^ German in the Forbes list , accessed on March 4, 2015
  11. ^ Who's who, biography, Johanna Quandt , accessed on January 2, 2016
  12. ↑ The Quandt billionaire family - October 16, 2013 , Hessischer Rundfunk, August 31, 2009, accessed on September 1, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Quandt, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quandt, Johanna Maria (full name); Bruhn, Johanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and shareholder in BMW
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 2015
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe