Inaara Aga Khan
Gabriele Inaara Begum Aga Khan ( born April 1, 1963 as Gabriele Homey in Frankfurt, later Gabriele Thyssen, until 1998 Gabriele Princess of Leiningen ), the wife of Karim Aga Khan IV was
Biography
It was (later R. Thyssen- Henne ) and Helmut Friedhelm Homey as Gabriele Homey in Frankfurt, was born on April 1, 1963 as the daughter of Renate Kerkhoff am Main. After the adoption by her stepfather Bodo Thyssen ( grandson of Joseph Thyssen, the younger brother of August Thyssen and co-founder of the dynasty steel ) led his family name.
After completing her education in the boarding school Schloss Salem at Lake Constance and the École des Roches in Normandy Gabriele Thyssen studied law at the Universities of Munich and Cologne, where she completed both state. She received her PhD in 1990 on " The criminal protection of commercial and industrial secrecy in the United States with special reference to federal law and the law of the State of New York."
During her studies, Gabriele Thyssen worked as an executive assistant in the company of her mother, the Vienna Forest Group, then the largest hotel and restaurant chain in Austria, and later for a German law firm.
In 1991 Gabriele Thyssen Karl- Emich zu Leiningen married Prince ( b. 1952 ). After the birth of her daughter, Princess Theresa of Leiningen, in April 1992, was Princess Gabriele zu Leiningen consultant to UNESCO in Paris for Gender Equality and against discrimination of women.
After the marriage was divorced with Prince of Leiningen 1998, married Princess Gabriele zu Leiningen in May of the same year Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the 49th Imam of the Ismailis and became the Begum Aga Khan. Prior to her marriage to the Aga Khan she converted to Islam. Together they chose the Muslim name " Inaara " (from Arabic " only ", " light "). In March 2000, her son Prince Aly Muhammad Aga Khan was born.
In 2004, the couple separated.
End of September 2011 the marriage was dissolved by a French court in the second instance. In the course of the divorce proceedings were issued a number of judgments, but so far none of them legally.
Social Commitment
The Begum Aga Khan campaigns for charitable purposes, in particular for women's rights, women's education and for improving the living conditions of people in developing countries.
Other Activities
She calls singing as one of her hobbies. Under the pseudonym Gina Boys they took over in 1986 participated in the German preliminary decision for the Euro Vision Song Contest and was there among other things with Wolfgang Heichel as a group That's Life the composed by Ralph Siegel title phone before, with whom she landed on the twelfth and last place.