Heidegger grew up with his siblings on a farm in Götzens / Axams ( Tyrol ). After graduating from school, he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk .
Heidegger achieved his first international success as a ski racer with second place in the slalom at the 1973 European Junior Championships in Ruhpolding . From 1975 to the end of his career in 1986 he was one of the most successful ski racers of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV). In the course of his career he achieved five World Cup victories (two giant slaloms, three slaloms) and a further nine podium places. In total, he was placed in the top ten 49 times. In the 1976/77 season he had the chance to win the discipline at the last giant slalom. This would have been possible in the slalom in the following winter of 1977/78 if he had not lost a lot of ground due to his illness-related absence on February 11th in Les Houches . On November 27, 1983 he won the slalom in Bormio as part of the World Series of Skiing, which is only part of the Nations Cup .
Klaus Heidegger and Jami Morse Heidegger 2014
During a training session he met his future wife Jami (e) Morse. After the wedding and retirement from competitive sports, he acquired 50% of the company of his father-in-law Aaron Morse, a small pharmacy in New York specializing in natural cosmetics. In the following years he worked in the shop himself, mixing moisturizers. In 1989 he then took over the entire business, developed new brands, invested in marketing and turned Kiehl's into a global company. He later sold it to the French cosmetics manufacturer L'Oreal . The rumored sales revenues range between 80 and 150 million US dollars, but according to Heidegger they are over 100 million.
Since 1992 he has lived with his wife and three children on a ranch in Chatsworth , a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley . The Tyrolean invested the proceeds from the sale of Kiehl’s in three companies. In 2003, based on his longstanding interest in health and fitness, he acquired the majority of shares (51%) in the Swiss shoe company Masai-Barfuss-Technologie , the beverage company Motion Potion and the horse magazine Short Sockets . In addition, he is also involved as a horse breeder.
^ "The downhill run today" - subheading: "Then World Cup slalom without Heidegger and maybe Stenmark too" - to be found in the text in the last two paragraphs of the article . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 11, 1978, p.9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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