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Helmut Horten was born on 8 January, 1909 in Bonn, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, is a German businessman. Discover Helmut Horten's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Occupation Businessman
Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 8 January, 1909
Birthday 8 January
Birthplace Bonn, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Date of death 30 November, 1987
Died Place Croglio, Ticino, Switzerland
Nationality Russia

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His wife is Heidi Jelinek (m. 1966)

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Helmut Horten Net Worth

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1909

Helmut Horten (8 January 1909 – 30 November 1987) was a German entrepreneur who built up and owned the fourth-largest chain of department stores in Germany, Horten AG.

Helmut Horten was born on January 8, 1909, in Bonn, Kingdom of Prussia.

His father was a judge.

Horten built his vast fortune by forcefully buying Jewish businesses as part of Hitler’s Aryanization process.

Horten was apprenticed in a Düsseldorf department store belonging to Leonhard Tietz before working for the Duisburg department store of the Gebrüder Alsberg (Alsberg brothers) company.

1933

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Horten was able to acquire the company from the Jewish owners, Strauß and Lauter, who fled to the United States.

He was aided in this transaction by the banker Wilhelm Reinhold of the Commerz- and Disconto-Bank.

The bank was to become a partner in the newly formed Horten & Co.

1939

Until 1939, Horten acquired several other department stores and enjoyed a good relationship with the Nazi government despite that his uncle, the (later) Catholic saint Titus Maria Horten died in custody in 1936.

Horten was able to acquire the distribution rights to certain goods which were scarce due to the Second World War.

1947

After the Second World War, Horten was interned by the British Army in 1947 in Recklinghausen.

1948

Following a hunger strike he was released in 1948.

He soon continued with the consolidation and expansion of his company, which he still owned.

Horten introduced Germany's first supermarket after a visit to the United States, the copying of this business model expanding the group quickly.

1960

In 1960, Horten met 19-year-old Austrian Heidi Jelinek, a woman 32 years his junior, in a hotel bar in Velden am Wörthersee.

1966

The couple married on 23 July 1966 in Düsseldorf-Lohausen and moved to Croglio in the Swiss canton of Ticino at the end of 1968.

Horten enjoyed living the life of a wealthy man: he owned a BAC 1-11 as a private jet, a series of private yachts named after Carinthia, and a villa in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

In Duisburg, the centre of his business activities, he made donations to the tennis club, the carnival and the zoo.

The Helmut Horten Stiftung promotes medical research.

His widow inherited his $1 billion fortune and lived between homes in Croglio, Lyford Cay, by the Wörthersee in Austria and a penthouse in Vienna.

Rated within the world's 500 richest people by Forbes, she also commissioned and owned one of the world's largest yachts, the Carinthia VII.

Due to controversy over the source of the Horten fortune, Christie's committed to contributing a portion of the profits from Heidi Horten's posthumous jewellery sale to Holocaust education and related causes.

On August 31, 2023, Christie's cancelled the auction entirely after Jewish charities and organizations refused to accept any monies related to the sale.

1968

In 1968, with 25,000 staff and turnover of the equivalent of €1 billion in West German marks, he floated the group on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

1972

In 1972, Horten sold his majority stake and retired from the business, which controversially lost a great deal of value soon afterwards.

1994

In 1994 the chain was bought by Kaufhof Holding AG, merged into the German retail group METRO AG in 1996.