/ world right this moment information/ Walmart, Koch, Mars – and the silence of the Kvant household
The checklist of the 25 richest household clans in keeping with Bloomberg information is headed by the American households Walmart (its fortune is estimated at 150 billion {dollars}), Koch and Mars.
The checklist is dominated by the US (10 households), which doesn’t embrace first-generation billionaires who haven’t but managed to create a “household”, equivalent to Mark Zuckerberg, whose private fortune exceeds that of lots of the households on the checklist.
From essentially the most densely populated Asian continent, solely three belong to the richest households on the planet: Ambani from India (house owners of the biggest nationwide holding), Hong Kong’s Kwok (to the ethnic Chinese language, to the Thomasu brothers, to Walter and Reuter belongs to the multi-profile conglomerate Solar Hung Kai Properties) and Lee in South Korea (house owners of Samsung)
Some European households have the longest traditions of household entrepreneurship. For instance, the world’s largest brewing conglomerate Anheuser-Busch InBev (registered in Belgium, has factories in lots of international locations of the world, together with the USA and China) started its historical past within the XIV century. This firm, which is owned by the aristocratic households Wham Damm, de Meeuw and the Viscounts de Spoelberch, has been arguing with its Czech opponents, the Budweiser Budvar brewers, over the best to the Budweiser trademark for nearly 100 years.
The story of the richest German household, in keeping with this model, proudly owning the BMW concern – the Quandt household – is curious. The household of those industrialists, intently related to army provides within the years of the 2 world wars, have all the time saved themselves within the shadows. The scandal broke out in 2007 after the ARD tv channel confirmed the documentary “The Silence of the Quandts” (Das Schweigen der Quandts), which gathered greater than one million viewers. The authors of the movie proved irrefutably that if the British occupation authorities had not withheld the paperwork they’d at their disposal, Gunther Quandt would have been convicted as a conflict felony on the Nuremberg Tribunal. However he was acknowledged as a “companion” of the regime (Mitläufer) and was let out; furthermore, since lots of the factories belonging to him had been destroyed, Günter Kwand declared himself a “sufferer of Nazism”. We are able to agree with this definition: in spite of everything, in 1933, Kwand sacrificed a big sum for the Nazi Get together. It was not gratuitous, because the Hitler regime later thanked the donor: Günther as “head of the protection financial system enterprise” (Wehrwirtschaftsführer) obtained, within the spirit of the household custom, profitable army authorities contracts. And even earlier, he in a sure sense “sacrificed” for Nazism and his spouse – his second spouse Magda left him and went to Joseph Goebbels.
Translation: M. Zhelyazkova
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