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Susanne Hanna Ursula Klatten (née Quandt, born 28 April 1962) is a German billionaire heiress, the daughter of Herbert and Johanna Quandt. As of January 2022, her net worth was estimated at US$23.4 billion, and the richest woman in Germany and the 50th richest person in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index .
Johanna Bruhn became a secretary in her future husband's office in the 1950s and eventually became his personal assistant. The two married in 1960. After his death in 1982, she was a major shareholder in BMW and sat on its supervisory board from 1982 until she retired in 1997. Much of that time she served as deputy chairwoman of the board. [3]
On his father's death in 1982 Quandt inherited 17.4% of BMW, [4] the company his father had saved from bankruptcy in 1959. From further purchases he later owned 23.7% of the company. [ 1 ] In 1997, he joined the company's supervisory board.
Klatten, heiress to the BMW fortune, was But sometimes, such as in the case of Susanne Klatten, Germany's richest woman, they are just plain dumber than average folks.
She did not remarry after Herbert's death, and lived quietly in Bad Homburg until her own death in 2015. The current supervisory board members at BMW include Johanna's two children: Stefan Quandt, holder of 23.7% of the shares in BMW, and Susanne Klatten, a 19.2% shareholder. [11] They joined the board in May 1997.
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While her younger siblings Susanne Klatten and Stefan Quandt (from her father's third marriage) have fortunes estimated in the billions of dollars mostly from substantial large holdings in public companies such BMW, Altana and Varta, Silvia Quandt's fortune is more difficult to estimate as it is mainly controlled through private holding companies.