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Keywords Germany, germans, richest germans, susanne klatten, stefan quandt, johanna quandt, herbert quandt, bmw, bayerische motor werke, luxury autos, altana, pharmaceuticals, billionaire, richest woman, Susanne Klatten is Germany's richest woman, thanks to a certain Bavarian luxury carmaker. read more

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Her father was the legendary industrialist Herbert Quandt, the man who made BMW the luxury-car colossus it is today. When he died, in 1982, he left Susanne, her younger brother Stefan, and his third wife Johanna Quandt his BMW holdings and other assets. read more

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Herbert Quandt was born in Pritzwalk, the second son of Günther Quandt (1881–1954) and Antonie ‘Toni’ Quandt (née Ewald). Antonie died of the Spanish flu in 1918. The Quandts are descendants of a Dutch rope-making family who had settled in Wittstock and Pritzwalk, between Berlin and Schwerin, in the 18th century. read more

The Quandt family, major shareholder of BMW, and one of the richest in Germany, is finally and belatedly confessing to its Nazi-past. Patriarch Günther Quandt was an early member of the Nazi party, he joined 1933, after Hitler’s election. read more

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