Larry Hillblom

Larry Lee Hillblom ( * 1943; † 21 May 1995 Saipan ) in 1969 was a founding member of international courier company DHL, which was acquired by Deutsche Post AG 2002.

For his bizarre lifestyle known Hillblom bought not only European castles, hotels and airlines ( Continental Micronesia ), but also had a pronounced weakness for underage young women from Vietnam and the Philippines.

In 1980, Hillblom to Guam, 1981, he moved his permanent residence on the Pacific island of Saipan, a tax haven. Despite an existing U.S. embargo against Vietnam Hillblom invested after a visit to the central Vietnamese city of Da Lạt in a hotel of colonial France. The opening of the hotel (today: " Sofitel Dalat " ) he did not live, however:

Hillblom died on 21 May 1995 with the crash of an aircraft controlled by him water from the Second World War near the Pacific island of Saipan. His body was never found. As early as 1993 he had a plane crash on the neighboring island of Tinian survived seriously injured.

In his will, he had in 1982, that the children begotten by him his temporary compounds should be considered financially. After his death, then multiple processes of actual and alleged children were filed. His two brothers bequeathed Hillblom only $ 300,000. At four children in Vietnam, the Philippines and Palau to DNA analyzes 90 million U.S. dollars each have been paid out of the estate. The total assets of DHL founder was then estimated at around 600 million U.S. dollars. The letter H in "DHL" goes back to the first letter of his surname.

The University of California received in 1998 from the estate of Larry Hillblom 240 million U.S. dollars for medical research purposes.

• Entrepreneur ( 20th century)
• Americans
• Born in 1943
• Died in 1995
• Man