Anton Kut Schlecker (born 28 October 1944, in
Ehingen
Ehingen (Donau) (; ) is a town in the Alb-Donau (district), Alb-Donau district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, situated on the left bank of the Danube, approx. southwest of Ulm and southeast of Stuttgart.
The city, like the entire district o ...
) is a German businessman, founder and owner of the
Schlecker drug store
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chain in Germany.
He is married to Christa Schlecker and has two children, Lars Schlecker and Meike Schlecker, both active in the management of the Schlecker company.
At the age of 21, he acquired the degree "
Meister" butcher and took over the parental butcher's shop. In 1975, he built his first drug store in
Kirchheim unter Teck
Kirchheim unter Teck (, ; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Kircha'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the Esslingen (district), district of Esslingen. It is located on the small river Lauter (Neckar), Lauter, a tributary of the Neckar. It i ...
which went up to more than 100 stores two years later. , there were more than 13,000 stores across Europe, employing about 50,000 people and generating revenue of about 6.55 billion euros.
In July 2012, Anton Schlecker and his family declared bankruptcy and all Schlecker stores closed and were sold off to the appointed receivers.
Schlecker kidnapping
In 1987, his two children – Meike and Lars – were
kidnapped, released only after he paid 9.6 million
marks in
ransom. In summer 1998, Wilhelm Hudelmaier and Herbert Jacoby were arrested in Ehingen and convicted of kidnapping. In 1999, they were convicted by the Landgericht
Ulm of kidnapping and extortion. They both were sentenced to a prison term of 13.5 years.
Court case
In 1998, Schlecker and his wife were given a suspended sentence of ten months each and fined one million euros by the Regional Court in
Stuttgart
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for deceiving Schlecker employees into believing they were paid according to going pay rates. Actual salaries were lower, which was deemed fraud by the court.
References
External links
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"Familie Schlecker: Knüppeln, knausern, kontrollieren" Manager magazin
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History and profile
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, 4 December 2003 (in German)
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1944 births
Living people
People from Ehingen
People from the Free People's State of Württemberg
German billionaires
German company founders
20th-century German businesspeople
21st-century German businesspeople