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The BMW shareholder Johanna Quandt is dead. The entrepreneur, together with their children Stefan Quandt and Susanne Klatten almost 47 percent of the shares stopped at the carmaker, died Monday at the age of 89 years with her family in Bad Homburg, as the Johanna Quandt Foundation announced now. So you confirming a report of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. The Quandt are considered the richest family in Germany.

Johanna Quandt was born in 1926 in Berlin. In the 50s she joined a job as a secretary of the entrepreneur Herbert Quandt. 1960 married the couple. After her husband’s death in 1982 Johanna Quandt took over mandates in various supervisory boards, among others at BMW. In 1997, she handed over the corporate responsibility to their children Susanne Klatten and Stefan Quandt.

The foundation, founded by Johanna Quandt and named after their award the Herbert Quandt Media Prize for Business Journalism annually. The entrepreneur also promoted the research and supported, among others, the Berlin Charité with its own foundation.

A large donation of the Quandt family to the CDU made 2013 headlines, because they coincided in the dispute over the new emission standards for cars in the EU. The NDR television documentary “The Silence of the Quandt” in 2007 sparked a controversial debate on the role of the Quandt family during the Hitler dictatorship. Accordingly, concentration camp prisoners and forced laborers helped to increase the wealth of the family and to expand the group.

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