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Quandt Family
Quandt is a surname. In particular, it may refer to members of the notable Quandt family: *Günther Quandt (1881–1954), German industrialist, founded an industrial empire that includes BMW and Altana **Harald Quandt (1921–1967), German industrialist, stepson of Joseph Goebbels **Herbert Quandt (1910–1982), German industrialist, regarded as having saved BMW and made huge profit ***Johanna Quandt (1926–2015), German widow of industrialist Herbert Quandt ****Stefan Quandt (born 1966), German engineer and industrialist ***Silvia Quandt (born 1937), German artist and one of Germany's richest women Other notable people with the surname include: *Bernhard Quandt (1903–1999), German politician (SPD, KPD, SED) *Johann Gottlob von Quandt (1787–1859), German artist, art scholar and collector *Johann Jakob Quandt (1686–1772), German Lutheran theologian *Pablo Quandt (born 1985), Colombian footballer *Richard E. Quandt (born 1930), Guggenheim Fellowship winning economist *Theodor Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günther Quandt
Günther Quandt (28 July 1881 – 30 December 1954) was a German industrialist who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW and Altana, a car and chemical company, respectively. Between 1921 and 1929, he was married to Magda Ritschel, later the wife of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. In the 1930s he joined the Nazi Party, becoming one of its strong financial supporters. His descendants were ranked as the wealthiest Germans by Manager Magazin in 2014. Early life Günther Quandt was born in Pritzwalk in Germany, the son of Emil Quandt (1849–1925). Emil had in 1883 married the daughter of a rich textile manufacturer (Reichswolle AG) and Günther took charge of the company in 1900. Günther had three siblings: Gerhard, Werner, and Edith. Werner married Eleanor Quandt, who after World War II helped to protect her brother-in-law, Günther, from prosecution by the Allies. Edith married the owner of another textile company. During World War I, under the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Quandt
Harald Friedrich Ludwig Quandt (1 November 1921 – 22 September 1967) was a German industrialist, the son of Günther Quandt and Magda Behrend Ritschel. His parents divorced and his mother was later married to Joseph Goebbels, then chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. After World War II, Quandt and his older half-brother Herbert Quandt ran the industrial empire left to them by their father owning a stake mainly in Germany's luxury car manufacturer BMW and the electric battery producer VARTA, which emerged from Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA, which still belongs to the family. Early life Harald Quandt was born in Charlottenburg, son of industrialist Günther Quandt and Magdalena Behrend Ritschel who had married in 1921. Although the couple divorced in 1929, they remained on friendly terms. Magda later married Joseph Goebbels at a property owned by Günther Quandt. Adolf Hitler was Goebbels' best man. Following his m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Quandt
Herbert Werner Quandt (22 June 1910 – 2 June 1982) was a German industrialist and member of the Nazi Party credited with having saved BMW when it was at the point of bankruptcy and made a huge profit in doing so. Quandt also oversaw the use at his family's factories during World War II of tens of thousands of slave labourers, many of whom perished. Early life Herbert Quandt was born in Pritzwalk, the second son of Günther Quandt (1881–1954) and Antonie "Toni" Quandt (born Ewald). Antonie died of the Spanish flu in 1918. Quandt was affected by a retinal disease that left scars, and he was nearly blind from the age of nine. Consequently, he had to be educated at home. Nazi period The Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award-winning documentary film ''The Silence of the Quandts'' by the German public broadcaster ARD described in October 2007 the role of the Quandt family businesses during the Second World War. The family's Nazi past was not well known, but the documentary f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Quandt
Johanna Maria Quandt (; 21 June 1926 – 3 August 2015) was a German billionaire businesswoman and the widow of Herbert Quandt, an industrialist and prominent Nazi. When she died in 2015 she was the 8th richest person in Germany (and the richest German woman), the 77th richest person in the world, and the 11th richest woman worldwide according to ''Forbes''. Career at BMW 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. She owned 16.7% of BMW at the time of her death. ''The Silence of the Quandts'' The documentary ''The Silence of the Quandts'' described the role of the Quandt family businesses during the Second World War. It disclosed information about the use of slave labourers in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Quandt
Stefan Quandt (born 9 May 1966) is a German billionaire heir, engineer and industrialist. As of December 2024, ''Forbes'' estimated his net worth at US$21.6 billion, ranked at number 89 on Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Early life Quandt was born in Bad Homburg to Herbert Quandt, a German industrialist and prominent Nazi, and Johanna Quandt. He earned a degree from the University of Karlsruhe where he studied economics and engineering, from 1987 to 1993. Career From 1993–1994, Quandt worked for the Boston Consulting Group in Munich. From 1994 to 1996 he worked for Datacard Group of Minneapolis as a marketing manager in Hong Kong. BMW On his father's death in 1982 Quandt inherited 17.4% of BMW, the company his father had saved from bankruptcy in 1959. From further purchases he later owned 23.7% of the company. In 1997, he joined the company's supervisory board. Following his mother’s death in 2015, Quandt’s voting stake in BMW temporarily increased to 34.19 percent, ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Quandt
Silvia Quandt (born 1937) is a German artist. Early life Quandt was born in 1937 in Berlin, the only child of the marriage between a German industrialist and prominent Nazi, Herbert Quandt, a man who was eventually the major shareholder of BMW, and his first wife Ursel Munstermann. Her parents divorced in 1940 and Silvia stayed with her mother. Artistic career She studied at the Academy for Graphic Arts in Munich and then trained as a commercial artist. She has worked as a freelance painter since the 1960s. She received the Burda Award in 1968 and the Swabian Art Award in 1969. Works by Quandt can be seen today at the Bayrischen Staatsgemäldesammlung (Bavarian State Painting Collection) and in the Haus der Kunst Art Museum in Munich. Quandt's paintings and graphic works are ascribed to Fantastic Realism, characterised by a tendency towards the Surreal and Romanticism. She has had exhibitions in Munich, Düsseldorf, Münster, Mannheim, Bremen, London, Paris and Zurich. '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Quandt
Bernhard Quandt (14 April 1903 – 2 August 1999) was a German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). Quandt became politically active in the waning years of the Weimar Republic for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), spending several years in the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps during Nazi rule. He moved to the Soviet occupation zone after the war, where he became a SED functionary. He served as the last Minister-President of Mecklenburg before its dissolution and thereafter as the longtime First Secretary of the Bezirk Schwerin SED before being forced into retirement in 1974. Life and career Early life Quandt was born to a single mother; his father was a soldier in the Imperial German Army who died in a riding accident in Parchim four months before Quandt’s birth. The family—his mother had since married a carpenter—lived in Rostock and Wismar. At six, he attended elementary school there. In 1912, the family moved to Gielo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Gottlob Von Quandt
Johann Gottlob von Quandt (9 April 1787 – 19 June 1859) was a German artist, art scholar, and collector. Biography Von Quandt was born in Leipzig. He had met and corresponded with Goethe. Some of his own works are exhibited in the Tower of Fresken at the town of Dürrröhrsdorf-Dittersbach, near Dresden. He died in Dresden. Gottlob von Quandt never received any formal education. He did, however, study under people like Johann Friedrich Rochlitz, C. de Renty, and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Gottlob von Quandt once rescued eleven pictures of Leipzig's Nicolai Church, some of which were the creations of Lucas Cranach the Elder. This notable act earned him the respect of Goethe. The rescue work also served as the stepping stone for him into a career of art historian and collector of old German paintings. He earned a high standing in the art world of his time, and his home in Rome was a meeting place for artists such as Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Julius Schnorr von Carolsf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Jakob Quandt
Johann Jakob Quandt (; 27 March 1686 in Königsberg – 17 January 1772 in Königsberg) was a German orthodox Lutheran theologian, and professor of theology in Königsberg. He opposed Pietism, but sympathized with Wolffianism. He is known for sponsoring the first complete translation of the Bible into Lithuanian, the Quandt Bible of 1735. He was also a librarian of the Königsberg Public Library (first librarian, 1714–18). He was considered an excellent preacher. Frederick the Great Frederick II (; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled ''King in Prussia'', declaring himself ''King of Prussia'' after annexing Royal Prussia ... called him the best preacher he knew. In 1743 he published a hymnal in response to Georg Friedrich Rogall's Pietist hymnal. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Quandt
Pablo Arturo Quandt Cordoba (born May 14, 1985) is a Colombian footballer. External links * 1985 births Living people Colombian men's footballers Unión Magdalena footballers Patriotas Boyacá footballers C.D. FAS footballers Colombian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in El Salvador Expatriate men's footballers in Aruba Men's association football forwards Colombian expatriate sportspeople in El Salvador Footballers from Santa Marta Footballers from Magdalena Department 21st-century Colombian sportsmen {{Colombia-footy-forward-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard E
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include " Richie", " Dick", " Dickon", " Dickie", " Rich", " Rick", "Rico (name), Rico", " Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English (the name was introduced into England by the Normans), German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Portuguese and Spanish "Ricardo" and the Italian "Riccardo" (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Quandt
Major Theodor Quandt (22 June 18976 June 1940) was a World War I German flying ace credited with 15 aerial victories. He would return to his nation's service for World War II, being killed on 6 June 1940 during the Fall of France. Birth and early military service Theodor Quandt was born in Mollaud, Prussia on 22 June 1897. He enlisted in the infantry on 4 August 1914, while he was still 17 years old. He later served as an artilleryman. He was a combatant in the Battle of Tannenberg on the Eastern Front. He was switched to the Western Front in early 1916. On 1 July, he began aerial service, training as a pilot. Once qualified, he was posted to ''Flieger-Abteilung (Artillerie)'' (Flier Detachment (Artillery) 270), an artillery direction unit equipped with Rumpler C.IV reconnaissance aircraft and operating in support of the German 3rd Army, on 1 January 1917. He served with them until transferred to '' Jagdstaffel 36'' (Fighter Squadron 36) (also known as ''Jasta'' 36) on 1 Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
