Stefan Quandt – Family, Family Tree

Stefan Quandt is an engineer, businessman, industrialist and philanthropist of German origin. He is currently the Deputy Chairman of the supervisory board of luxury automaker giant BMW. Stefan inherited a majority of BMW’s share holdings after the death of his father.

Apart from this, he also holds a majority of stakes in other companies such as CEAG, Logwin AG, Heel GmbH and CeDo. He is known to be very giving and charitable and supports the community by making huge sums of donations to various organizations.

Let us now look at the grand Quandt Family

Quandt Great-Grandparents – Emil Quandt & Hedwig Draeger Quandt

Emil and Hegwig Quandt were the great-grandparents of Stefan. Emil, his great-grandfather was a textile manufacturer. He had inherited the business after getting married to Hedwig Draeger.

Quandt Grandparents – Gunther Quandt & Antonie ‘Toni’ Ewald Quandt

His grandfather Gunther was the man behind the empire of BMW and Altana. Altana is a company that deals in manufacturing of chemicals. With his first wife, he had two sons. Gunther was a supporter of Hitler and the Nazi Party. He died of Spanish flu in 1918.