This article delves into the life of Klaus-Michael Kuehne, Germany's wealthiest person with a fortune estimated at $44 billion. Despite his immense wealth amassed through Kuehne + Nagel, the world’s largest freight forwarder, Kuehne remains a recluse outside Germany's power circles.
I. A DIRTY BUSINESS These weren’t just any family tombs: The Kuehne dynasty is industrial royalty in Germany . Klaus-Michael Kuehne , the only child of Alfred and Mercedes Kuehne, is the country’s wealthiest person, with a fortune estimated at $44 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The 87-year-old billionaire owes his fortune to Kuehne + Nagel, the world’s largest freight forwarder, founded by Kuehne’s grandfather and Friedrich Nagel in 1890.
It’s no accident that this contract was formulated in spring 1933. Maass wouldn’t have signed this contract in the years before Hitler took power. This was a so-called Aryanization.” “The constitutional element of an Aryanization contract was that Jewish ownership was completely eliminated and that the company was handed over in its entirety to non-Jewish owners,” says Bajohr. “In this case, the Kuehnes.
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