Nicky Oppenheimer

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Vladimir Putin meets De Beers Chairman Nicholas Oppenheimer (right) in South Africa in 2006

Nicholas "Nicky" Frank Oppenheimer (born June 8, 1945 in Johannesburg ) is a South African entrepreneur.

Life

Oppenheimer's parents are the entrepreneur Harry Frederick Oppenheimer , who was of German-Jewish descent, and Bridget Oppenheimer. His grandfather was Ernest Oppenheimer , diamond dealer and founder of the Anglo American Corporation .

He attended Harrow School in the UK and studied philosophy, political science and economics at Christ Church College, Oxford . Oppenheimer became vice chairman of the South African mining company Anglo American in 1983 , which his grandfather had founded and his father was chairman of until 1982, and in 1998 he took over the chairmanship of the South African company De Beers , which had been run by his grandfather and father before him. In 2011, after a series of business setbacks, he sold the Oppenheimer family's 40% stake in De Beers for around $ 5.1 billion to Anglo American and resigned from his position in the company in 2012.

Oppenheimer is in the Forbes list in 2018 with a fortune of 7.7 billion US dollars the richest South Africans out and second richest Africans. He is married to Orcillia "Strilli" Oppenheimer, a daughter of Helli Lasch, and lives mainly in Johannesburg and in Waltham Place in White Waltham , Berkshire, UK . The couple have a son, Jonathan , who is also involved in diamond mining.

Honors

The 40,000-seat Nicky Oppenheimer Stadium in Orkney is named after Oppenheimer .

Works

  • Luke Over, Nicholas Oppenheimer, Chris Tyrrell: Waltham Place: and its Surrounding Parish. 2001, ISBN 0-9541669-0-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at whoswho.co.za (English; archive version)
  2. ^ Bettina Schulz: Family Oppenheimer: The diamond cutters . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 1, 2020]).
  3. ^ Forbes : Nicky Oppenheimer & family . Retrieved March 7, 2018.
  4. ↑ Mfonobong Nsehe: The African Billionaires 2017 . Forbes. 20th March 2017.
  5. ↑ South Africa has a new richest man while the fight is on for the global number one. businesstech.co.za, September 2016, accessed September 9, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Oppenheimer, Nicky
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oppenheimer, Nicholas Frank (official name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg