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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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