Martin Walter Haefner (born 1954) is a Swiss

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. It is a sub-category of the concept of the ultr ...

, the son of

Walter Haefner Walter Haefner (13 September 1910 – 19 June 2012) was a Swiss businessman and a thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder in Ireland. As a young man Haefner went to work in the auto industry as an employee of the Swiss division of General Moto ...

Early life

He is the son of

. When his father died in 2012, aged 101, he was the world's oldest billionaire, and had a net worth of US$4.3 billion.

Career

Haefner studied mathematics at the

ETH Zurich ETH Zurich (; ) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ran ...

. For many years he worked as a high-school teacher. At the age of 50, his father put him in charge of AMAG, the family-owned importer of Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and SEAT cars into Switzerland. After the death of their father, Haefner and his sister Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner divided 2018 their heritage such that Martin Haefner became sole owner of AMAG. Through the sale of their participation in the US software company

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, funds were available for additional investments. Haefner became the main shareholder of Schmolz + Bickenbach, a steel producer with factories in several countries.Maurizio Minetti
''Amag-Erbe Martin Haefner: Der Mann im Hintergrund.''

Luzerner Zeitung ''Luzerner Zeitung'' (''LZ'') is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published in Lucerne. History and profile ''Luzerner Zeitung'' was created in 1996 through the merger of ''Luzerner Zeitung'' (''LZ'') and '' Luzerner Neuste Nachrichten'' ...

, 14 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2020

Personal life

He is married and lives in

Horw Horw (; Swiss German: ''Horb'') is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. History Horw is first mentioned in 1231 as ''Horwe''. Geography Horw has an area of . Of this area, 32.6% is used for agri ...

, Canton of Lucerne.

References

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