Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler

Maria -Elisabeth Schaeffler (born Kurssa; born August 17, 1941 in Prague) is an Austrian- German entrepreneur who is the Schaeffler AG together with her son shareholder.

Life

The Kurssa family was expropriated by the end of the Protectorate and the reestablishment of Czechoslovakia and fled from Prague to Vienna. Schaeffler's father was in Austria first financial advisor at the headquarters of the U.S. armed forces and later General of the First General Insurance Company Ltd and its successor Generali. Her great-grandfather was involved as the bike repair shop Laurin & Klement in Mladá Boleslav became the largest automobile manufacturer in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later was to become the Skoda Group.

Having grown up since she was four years in Vienna, she began after high school in 1960 to study medicine at the Medical University of Vienna. When she met the 24 years older Georg Schaeffler, who together with his brother William in 1946 in Herzogenaurach, Germany, the industry -GmbH (sic ) ( then " INA bearings Schaeffler oHG ", " INA Schaeffler KG ", " Schaeffler KG ", " Schaeffler GmbH " and now " Schaeffler AG " was founded as a group bonding for Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, FAG, LuK and the other subsidiaries in North and South America and Asia), they abandoned his studies after Physikum in the 6th semester. In 1963, she married him and moved to Herzogenaurach. After that, she began studying business administration at the University of Erlangen -Nuremberg, which, however, also did not graduate for a short time.

Schaeffler and her son Georg FW Schaeffler, who, however, until 2008 kept away from the daily business and worked as a business lawyer in Dallas / United States, since the death of Georg Schaeffler in August 1996, the sole shareholder of the Schaeffler Group, the world with approximately 70,000 employees and a turnover of about 7.3 billion euros (2009) one of the 50 largest companies in Germany. Maria -Elisabeth Schaeffler is chairman of the company founded by her after her husband's death Advisory Board of the company.

In the list of the richest people in Germany 2007 Manager Magazin she stood at 22 point. The net private assets by Maria -Elisabeth and Georg FW Schaeffler was estimated at about 4.85 billion euros together. On the list of most Austrian of the Austrian business magazine trend, the Schaeffler family in 2007 was number three, 2008, she can be found with an estimated fortune of 4.1 billion euros in fourth place. On the list of the richest world by Forbes Magazine Mother and son were held with an estimated fortune of 8.7 billion U.S. dollars ranked number 78 in 2007, 2008 they stand at an estimated $ 8.5 billion at No. 104 in October 2009 led the Manager Magazin Maria -Elisabeth Schaeffler at the 260th place. You 've lost 92.4 percent of their assets in the wake of the takeover of Continental AG.

In the Forbes list of the richest people in the world will the world with an estimated fortune of 9.8 billion U.S. dollars ranked 89th with her son George in 2011 and led No. 7 in Germany.

In the latest Forbes list 2013 is performed worldwide with assets of approximately 2.2 billion U.S. dollars ranked 670 of the richest people and number 44 in Germany.

She is a member of the University Council of the Friedrich -Alexander -University Erlangen -Nuremberg since 2007. Since April 2008 she is member of the Supervisory Board of Österreichische Industrie Holding AG ( ÖIAG) and since February 2009, the Supervisory Board of Continental AG.

Maria -Elisabeth Schaeffler has both the Austrian and the German citizenship.

In the context of discussions on possible German state aid for their company came to criticism of her public appearances. In August 2009, the Schaeffler Group with its banks to refinance, has played no role in state aid ..

Awards

  • 2001: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2003: Bavarian Order of Merit
  • 2007: Cross of Merit, First Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2007: Grand Silver Medal with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria
  • 2011: Big Tiroler Adler-Orden
  • Would freeman 2002: Hochstadt an der Aisch
  • 2005: the Korean province of Jeollanam
  • 2006: Herzogenaurach
  • 2007: the Chinese city of Taicang
  • 2008: Bühl (Baden)
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