PIONIERE DER INDUSTRY DIE FAMILIE QUANDT
Herbert Quandt was born in Pritzwalk the second son of Günther Quandt 1881 1954 and Antonie Toni Quandt Ewald born Antonie died of the Spanish flu in 1918 1.
The Quandt are descendants of Dutch rope family who settled in Wittstock and Pritzwalk, between Berlin and Schwerin in the 18th century father Günther, Emil Quandt, married the daughter of a wealthy textile manufacturer and took charge of the company in 1883 during World war Günther in charge, the Quandt provided the German army with uniforms, building greater fortune after the war Günther would use to acquire Accumulatorenfabrik AFA AG, a battery manufacturer to Hagen; a potash mine; and processors metals including IWKA in 1928.
Herbert was a disease of the retina that has left scars, and he was almost blind since the age of nine Therefore, it had to be educated at home after extensive training in family companies at home and abroad, Herbert Quandt became a member of the Executive Council of the AFA, later VARTA AG in 1940 Herbert was the director of Pertrix GmbH, a subsidiary of AFA Herbert Quandt Berlin-based n ' has not been found after the war, although his father was interned until 1948, when it was investigated.
The Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs-winning documentary film The Silence of the Quandt March 2 by the German public broadcaster ARD described in October 2007, the role of family businesses Quandt during World War II was not well known Nazi past of the family but the documentary revealed to a wider audience and faced the Quandt on the use of slave labor in the family factories during the Second World war as a result, five days after the screening, 4 four members of the family announced on behalf of the entire Quandt family, their intention to fund a research project in which a historian would consider family activities during the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler 5 independent study of 1200 pages which was published in 2011 concluded the Quandt were inseparably linked with the Nazi crimes - Joachim Scholtyseck, Bonn historian who compiled and reviewed the study 4 from 2008 update has here is no compensation, an apology or even store on the site of one of their factories hav e been authorized BMW 3 was not involved in the report 4.
The unique convertible version of the BMW 3200 CS gifted Herbert Quandt for his contribution to BMW's rescue.
He gained more responsibility for companies that his father had purchased and after 1945, he rebuilt He developed a decentralized organizational business philosophy which gave broad powers to executive decision making and authorized employees to participate in the success of their business.
When Günther died in 1954, the Quandt group was a conglomerate of 200 companies, including the battery manufacturer, many metal fabrication companies, textile and chemical companies companies including Altana AG He also owned about 10 of the automotive company Daimler-Benz and BMW about 30 after the death of Günther, the conglomerate was divided between his two surviving son Herbert and Harald Quandt was the half-brother Herbert.
BMW was a firm in difficulty and in 1959 its management suggested selling the whole concern to Daimler-Benz Herbert Quandt was close to agreeing to such a deal, but changed his mind at the last minute because of opposition unions of workers and trade Instead, he increased his share in BMW to 50 against the advice of his bankers, risking much of his fortune, he helped reverse the fortunes of 'business.
BMW already planning his BMW 1500 model when Quandt took control was launched in 1962 and established a new segment in the automobile market the production quality salon occupies a position between the car mass production and outlet artisan built luxury producers BMW put it s sophisticated technical skills in a strong position to fill that niche it was this BMW model was put on the path to success.
When Harald died in 1967 in a plane crash, Herbert received over BMW shares, VARTA and IWKA In 1974, Herbert and Harald widow, Inge, has sold its stake in Daimler-Benz to the Government of Kuwait.
He married his first wife, Ursel Münstermann in 1933, but they divorced in 1940. The marriage had produced a daughter, Silvia Quandt b 1937, who stayed with his mother after Silvia divorce is now an artist living in Munich Ten years later, 1950, he married his second wife, the jeweler Lieselotte Blobelt, but they divorced in 1959. The second marriage produced Sonja b 1951 now Sonja Quandt-Wolf, Sabina b 1953 and Sven b 1956 Sven became director of BMW rally team.
Herbert married his third wife Johanna Bruhn in 1960, a year after his second divorce, she had been a secretary in his office in the 1950s and eventually became his personal assistant after the death of Herbert she does not remarry and quietly lived in Bad Homburg until his death in 2015 the members of BMW's current Supervisory Board include two children Stefan Quandt holds 17 shares 4 for Johanna BMW and a shareholder Susanne Klatten May 12 They joined the board of Directors in May 1997.
Herbert assured that the actions of its companies are not distributed only and thus avoid family disputes the children of previous marriages received shares in other companies Quandt family Silvia Quandt, the oldest child received numerous investments and property in the 1970s more than three children from the second marriage received the majority of shares VARTA Battery AG, but these have been sold since Susanne has also received its share Altana AG, while Stefan also has shares received in a holding company called Delton with interests in medical products and food products.
Today, Quandt are multi-billionaires, although it is difficult to put an exact figure on their wealth They do not give interviews and very shy advertising.
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