Sylvia Ströher

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Sylvia Ströher (* 1955 ) is a German art collector .

Life

Sylvia Ströher is the granddaughter of Georg Ströher, who was born in 1891 as the second son of Wella founder Franz Ströher. According to Forbes Magazine, Sylvia Ströher is one of the 50 richest Germans. The US company Procter & Gamble bought Wella in 2004; the information on the purchase price fluctuates between € 5.6 billion and € 6.5 billion. Of this, the heirs received around 3.2 billion euros.

Ströher is married to the former nurse Ulrich Ströher, both have one child. Ulrich and Sylvia Ströher own a vacation home near Pollença , which, together with Hans-Peter Schwarzkopf's property, forms the so-called Shampoo Valley .

The Ströhers have an art collection with 1,500 works, including by Anselm Kiefer , Jörg Immendorff and Georg Baselitz . The original collection of 800 works was expanded in 2005 by Hans Grothe's collection of 700 works and is exhibited in Duisburg in the Küppersmühle Museum for Modern Art . The two are among the most important collectors of German post-war art.

Sylvia Ströher is the authorized representative of the Informal Art Foundation, based in Darmstadt ; her husband Ulrich Ströher is a member of the board of trustees . In August 2013 it became known that she was temporarily paying the authors' fees for the insolvent Berlin publishing house Suhrkamp . After the publisher's conversion into a stock corporation , she will be on the publisher's supervisory board with Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz and Rachel Salamander effective December 10, 2015 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Knöfel: PUBLISHERS: White washing . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 2013 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Forbes estimates their fortune at US $ 1.9 billion - “In 2003 the Stroher family sold their nearly 80% stake in Wella AG, the world's biggest professional hair care group, to Proctor & Gamble for $ 4 billion. As a granddaughter of Wella's founder, Sylvia Stroher received $ 1 billion from the sale. "( Forbes Magazine: Sylvia Ströher )
  3. ↑ The Top 50 German billionaires: super rich. In: welt.de . March 9, 2007, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  4. ^ Wella: P&G Takes Control , April 26, 2004.
  5. ^ Wella takeover: Board of Directors criticizes the sale to America. In: Spiegel Online . March 18, 2003, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Christian Rickens: Mallorca: Bought luck. In: manager-magazin.de. October 24, 2003, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  7. ↑ museum-kueppersmuehle.de: Ströher Collection ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-kueppersmuehle.de
  8. ↑ Art: Compressed Happiness . How Ulrich and Sylvia Ströher suddenly became the most important collectors of German post-war art - a meeting. In: DIE ZEIT July 7, 2005 No. 28 .
  9. ↑ stiftung-informelle-kunst.de: Imprint , accessed on October 1, 2012.
  10. ^ Dpa: The Ströher family pays fees for Suhrkamp authors. In: handelsblatt.com . August 12, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Sandra Kegel: A new era is dawning. In: FAZ.net . December 10, 2015, accessed January 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Ströher, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurial granddaughter and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany