Viola Hallman

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Viola Christa Princess von Hohenzollern (born as Viola Christa Flachmeier on December 8, 1944 in Hohenlimburg ; died on December 22, 2012 in Atlantis , USA ) was a German entrepreneur in the heavy metals industry.

Life

Viola Flachmeier was the daughter of Werner Flachmeier and his wife Helga, née Theis. Your grandfather had the Friedr. Gustav Theis Kaltwalzwerke GmbH founded in 1910. She attended a grammar school in Hagen - Hohenlimburg and the boarding school of Schwarzenberg in Bavaria. She then studied in Hamburg , Marburg and Padua and did her doctorate in Padua on the Ruhr coal in the iron and steel industry .

In 1971, her father worked the 27-year-old into the company management, but died in 1972. In 1971, Flachmeier married Olof J. Hallman , whose name she adopted. Viola Hallman subsequently drove her company forward, and at the height of her entrepreneurship employed 1,400 people. In 1979 she was named Manager of the Year and at the end of the 1980s was considered one of the few successful female entrepreneurs in Germany.

Hallman married in 2006 his second wife Donatus Prince of Hohenzollern (* 1961 than Mark Hansel) that the cost publishing company " Frankfurter publishing group had established". Since then she has been called Viola Christa Princess of Hohenzollern . In 2007 she bought the Palais Lichtenau in Potsdam with a media impact and began restoring it and converting it into a guest house. She had to sell the building again in 2011 due to the bankruptcy of her company. She herself lived in seclusion on Kasteel Aldenghoor in Haelen . She also owned Killochan Castle in Scotland and a house in Singapore . She was enthusiastic about breeding Icelandic horses .

Theis-Werke went bankrupt in spring 2009 in the wake of the global economic crisis due to previous management errors. Hallman lost majority ownership in the company in the bankruptcy proceedings and last only held 10% of the company. She also had to give up Killochan Castle. After her death on a trip to Florida shortly before Christmas 2012, she was buried at Kasteel Aldenghoor. She left a daughter from her first marriage.

Publications

  • Entrepreneur, job without a future? Joy-Verlag Hamburg 1975.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b † Viola Christa Princess of Hohenzollern. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 16, 2013 ( trauer.sueddeutsche.de ).
  2. ↑ Viola Princess von Hohenzollern in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on February 28, 2017 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. ^ Elisabeth Sleeman: The International Who's Who of Women 2002 . ISBN 1-85743-122-7 .
  4. ↑ a b Obituary In: Westfälische Rundschau . December 29, 2012.
  5. ↑ Irene Mayer-List: Ascent with handicaps. In: The time . April 29, 1988 ( zeit.de ).
  6. ^ Michael Erbach: Palais Lichtenau sold to Hohenzollern. In: Potsdam Latest News , December 21, 2007 ( pnn.de ).
  7. ↑ Guido Berg: Laser center in the Palais Lichtenau. In: Potsdam's latest news . January 4, 2011 ( pnn.de ).
  8. ↑ a b c Princess to sell off contents of Scots castle. In: The Herald of Scotland. October 18, 2012 ( heraldscotland.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Hallman, viola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flachmeier, Viola (maiden name); Hohenzollern, Viola Christa Princess of (2nd married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenlimburg
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2012
Place of death Atlantis