Susanne Klatten

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Susanne Klatten at the BMW stand at the IAA 2017

Susanne Hanna Ursula Klatten , née Quandt , (born April 28, 1962 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German entrepreneur and the richest woman in Germany.

Origin and education

Susanne Klatten is the daughter of the industrialist Herbert Quandt and his third wife Johanna . In 1978 an attempt at kidnapping her and her mother was prevented by the police. After the death of her father in 1982, she inherited his fortune, including shares in BMW, together with her mother and brother Stefan .

After graduating from the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Bad Homburg, Susanne Klatten completed training as an advertising clerk at the Young & Rubicam agency in Frankfurt am Main from 1981 to 1983 . She then studied business administration at the University of Buckingham in England . After an internship at Deutsche Bank AG and an MBA - studying at IMD in Switzerland, Lausanne , she completed under the pseudonym Susanne Kant another internship at the BMW plant in Regensburg . There she met her future husband Jan Klatten, brother of the economic and media manager Werner E. Klatten .

Susanne Klatten has been an honorary senator of the Technical University of Munich since 2004 and a member of its university council since 2005. In 2009 she donated around 10 million euros to this university to establish the Susanne Klatten endowed chair for empirical educational research at the TUM School of Education .

Klatten received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 2005 and the Bavarian Order of Merit in 2007 .

It is one of the largest party donors to the CDU and FDP .

Private life

She has three children with Jan Klatten and lives in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . The separation from her husband became known on June 30, 2018.

In 2007 and 2008, Susanne Klatten was the victim of an attempt at extortion after an affair; The accused Helg Sgarbi was sentenced to six years imprisonment in 2009 for commercial fraud and attempted commercial blackmail . In 2014, the case was retraced in the TV movie In the Trap .

Shareholder

In 1993, at the age of 31, Susanne Klatten became a member of the Supervisory Board of Altana  AG and later its deputy chairwoman. In 1997, together with her brother, she officially inherited from her father at BMW. Through her company Susanne Klatten GmbH & Co.KG for automotive values ​​she is a partner and member of the supervisory board of BMW (20.7%) and through her other holding company SKion in the chemical group Altana AG (100%), the wind turbine manufacturer Nordex SE (5.7 %) %) and the carbon fiber specialist SGL Carbon (entry in March 2009 with 7.92%, current stake 27.27%).

Together with BMW AG, which announced on November 18, 2011 the increase in the stake in SGL Carbon from 5.16% to 15.16%, Susanne Klatten is pursuing a joint industrial strategy to make a takeover offer to the remaining shareholders of SGL Carbon to avoid. At the same time, regardless of her position as a major shareholder in BMW, she controls SGL Carbon as a private investor together with the Munich-based automobile manufacturer, which already operates a joint venture with the SGL Group . She has been chairwoman of the SGL Carbon supervisory board since April 2013.

In October 2012, Klatten and her subsidiary SKion invested in the waste oil processor Avista Oil AG . With the 30 percent stake in Avista Oil, SKion has become the second largest shareholder. In 2015, she also acquired a stake in Lonrho , a company focused on investing in Africa, through her investment company SKion .

As the owner of SKion and Altana - which together own 46 percent - Klatten has also been a shareholder in Landa Digital Printing, a company of the Israeli entrepreneur and inventor Benny Landa in the field of digital printing and nanotechnology, since 2018.

In the water treatment she is also involved with SKion, through investments in manufacturers of treatment plants.

capital

Susanne Klatten's net worth is estimated by Forbes at approximately $ 21.1 billion. She is now number 46 on Forbes' 2019 list of the richest people in the world and number 3 among the richest people in Germany.

Social Commitment

In April 2016, Susanne Klatten launched the SKala initiative in partnership with the non-profit analysis company Phineo . The SKala initiative supports around 100 non-profit organizations nationwide . The funding volume is up to 100 million euros. We support organizations that are proven to have a great social impact .

In recognition of their commitment to the SKala initiative , Klatten and David Grossman were awarded the Prize for Understanding and Tolerance of the Jewish Museum Berlin in 2018 .

The Unternehmerertum GmbH, which she founded, is committed to promoting start- ups and advising on innovation. With her Nantesbuch Foundation she wants to raise awareness of art and nature .

literature

Web links

Commons : Susanne Klatten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Millionaire Ranking: These are the richest women in Germany. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Denis Staunton: Visions of Johanna . The Guardian , March 26, 2000
  3. ↑ Heinz Bude: For the love of the clan . In: Die Zeit , No. 15/2005
  4. ↑ First German faculty for teacher training and educational research successfully launched . Technical University of Munich. October 27, 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2012.
  5. ↑ Party donations made by Susanne Klatten since 2000; Political database Unklarheiten.de
  6. ↑ about Susanne Klatten: three children. Forbes.com, accessed September 8, 2013
  7. ↑ Germany's richest woman separates from her husband . Welt Online , June 30, 2018
  8. ↑ Anna v. Münchhausen: Susanne Klatten. The case of the model heiress. FAZ.net , November 9, 2008, accessed March 8, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Norbert Bogdon: Poor billionaire: Klatten saw charges against blackmailers as the "only chance". In: Spiegel Online . November 21, 2008, accessed on March 8, 2013 (dpa / AP).
  10. ↑ Susanne Klatten is satisfied with the verdict. Welt Online , March 9, 2009, accessed March 8, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Klatten extortion: The verdict against Helg Sgarbi is final. Spiegel Online , March 17, 2009, accessed March 8, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Carsten Dierig: Billionaire Klatten annoys the Volkswagen Group. Welt Online , May 19, 2011, accessed March 8, 2013 .
  13. ↑ a b BMW AG acquires shares in SGL Carbon SE. Press release. BMW Group Corporate News, November 18, 2011, accessed on March 8, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Markus Fasse: Comment: A hefty defeat for Piëch. Handelsblatt.com , November 18, 2011, accessed March 8, 2013 .
  15. ↑ Spiegel-online from April 30, 2013
  16. ↑ Used oil processor: BMW heiress Klatten joins Avista Oil. Handelsblatt.com , October 12, 2012, accessed March 8, 2013 .
  17. ↑ Sven Millischer: Richest Germans rely on Schmidheiny and Frey. Handelszeitung, January 6, 2016
  18. ↑ Landa Press Releases: Landa Digital Printing opens the next chapter in the company's history. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
  19. ↑ manager magazin premium: Susanne Klatten & Stefan Quandt: first joint interview. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
  20. ^ Susanne Klatten in the Forbes list ; accessed on March 6, 2019
  21. ↑ skala-initiative.de - website of the donation initiative, accessed on May 17, 2016.
  22. ↑ BMW heiress: Susanne Klatten plans to donate millions . Spiegel Online ; accessed on May 17, 2016.
  23. ↑ The silent billionaire's donation revolution . World online ; accessed on May 17, 2016.
  24. ↑ Why BMW heiress Klatten donates 100 million euros . RBB-online.de; accessed on May 17, 2016.
  25. ↑ Klatten and Grossman awarded tolerance prize . Berliner Morgenpost , November 11, 2018, archived from the original on December 1, 2018 . ;.
  26. ↑ manager magazin premium: Susanne Klatten & Stefan Quandt: first joint interview. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
  27. ^ Foundation Nantesbuch gGmbH. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Klatten, Susanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klatten, Susanne Hanna Ursula (full name); Quandt, Susanne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe