Jürg Marquard

Jürg Marquard (born 13 July 1945) is a Swiss businessman, publisher, television personality. He belongs to the 300 wealthiest Swiss with a net worth of 500 million Swiss Francs (according to Bilanz).

Early life and education

Marquard was born 13 July 1945 in Zürich, Switzerland, the oldest of three sons, to Dr. Ernst Marquard (1913–1972), a dentist, and Simone Marquard (née Eggli), a homemaker.Obituary Dr. Ernst Marquard, 18 January 1972 (NZZ)

https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=NZZ19720118-01.2.25.4&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN-Marquard+urdorf-------0----- He has two brothers; Daniel Marquard and Andreas Marquard.

His paternal ancestors immigrated from Germany and became citizens in Zürich in 1921.Marquard of Zürich ZH (HLS/DSS) From an early age he was interested and engaged in journalism. After completing the Matura, he told his father not to pursue a college degree and instead become a full-time publisher of magazines.

Career

He was able to lend 1,000 Swiss Francs ($3,200 in 2024) to start his first magazine ''Pop''. Besides this activity he engaged several years as moderator of the Swiss Hitparade on Swiss Radio and was often referred as "Mr. Hitparade".

After the founding period, in which Marquard ''Pop'' edited himself, the magazine became increasingly commercial and, after various mergers with other German youth magazines, it became ''Pop/Rocky,'' the second largest German youth magazine behind Bravo. In 1998, Pop/Rocky was merged with the publisher's own youth and music magazine Popcorn, which had established itself as the international umbrella brand for the Marquard Media Group's youth magazine division. Marquard made the breakthrough in the German-language magazine market in 1981 with the magazine Cosmopolitan. Today he is also publishing those magazines exclusively in Poland and Hungary.

In early 2005 he became active as co-producer and protagonist of the reality series ''Traumjob'', which has been a license version of Donald Trump's The Apprentice. This series achieved the highest ratings within Swiss Television. From 2019 to 2020 he was also active as investor in the Swiss version of Shark Tank, Höhle der Löwen (Schweiz), which aired on the private channel 3plus. where he invested in promising start-ups. He resigned from this position for medical reasons, his succession was taken by DJ Antoine. Since 2019, he has also been involved in real estate investment and development activities around Lake Zurich. Together with development company Inizia AG and Urs Ledermann he formed LMI Property AG.

Since 1995, he serves as the Honorary consul of Hungary in Switzerland.

Personal life

Marquard initially married Mexican-born Rocio, a native of Cancun, which whom he had daughter.

* Aline Dobrova (née Marquard; born 1986)

This marriage only lasted a couple of years before being divorced. On 19 August 1991, Marquard married secondly to American-born model Priscilla Ogilvie (born 1966).

Marquard ultimately moved to Miami, Florida, where his children were raised. He did not like the American way of life and after obtaining a divorce returned to Switzerland. He then had a brief liaison with racing driver Christina Surer.

On July 22, 2008, Marquard married thirdly to Raquel Lehmann ( formerly Gubser; born 1963), also a former model, in a civil ceremony in St. Moritz. She was formerly married to Stefan Gubser, a Swiss actor and Roger Lehmann, a financier. Through this marriage, Marquard has two stepchildren;

* Bianca Manuela Keyman (née Gubser; born 23 December 1988), a businesswoman and socialite, married to Ahmed Keyman. They have two children.
* Vincent Ralph Lehmann (born 1996), an alum of Northeastern University

Marquard resides in Herrliberg, Switzerland on Lake Zurich. Between 1992 and 2022, Marquard has been a long-term tenant at the tower penthouse "La Tuor" of the Badrutt's Palace Hotel, after he took-over the lease from Gunter Sachs. Since then he had hosted annual parties including a new years reception where he often received 200+ famous guests of society.

He retains a chalet "Chantarella" in St. Moritz and additionally owns a property, "Villa Le Mangabey", on Nevis in the Caribbean. Marquard is the proprietor of the 160-foot yacht Azzurra II.

External links

* Christoph Müller:
Hallo Kollege!
' SRF Reporter on April 14, 2005 (in German)

Geboren am – 13. Juli 1945
SRF am 9 August 2019

References

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1945 births
Living people