Rank #87
Susanne Klatten
Net worth $28.3B
BMW, pharmaceuticals · Germany
- Born
- Apr 28, 1962
- Age
- 64
- Source
- BMW, pharmaceuticals
- Residence
- Bad Homburg
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, International Institute for Management and Development
Net worth over time
Biography
- Susanne Klatten owns about 19% of automaker BMW; her brother, Stefan Quandt, owns nearly 24%.
- Their late mother, Johanna, was the third wife of legendary industrialist Herbert Quandt, who guided BMW to preeminence in the luxury market.
- An economist with an M.B.A., Klatten helped transform her grandfather's Altana AG into a world-class pharmaceutical/specialty chemical corporation.
- Klatten is the sole owner and deputy chair of Altana, which has more than $2.5 billion in annual sales.
- She also holds stakes in Entrust, which specializes in digital identity and data security, and carbon and graphite producer SGL Group.
- Klatten is founder of an innovation center at Technical University of Munich, UnternehmerTUM, which claims to be the leading center for business creation in Germany.
- Her grandfather Guenther Quandt was a Nazi-era industrialist whose ex-wife married Joseph Goebbels.
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