Hans Rausing

Rausing was born in Gothenburg in 1926, the second son of industrialist Ruben Rausing and his wife Elisabeth (née Varenius).{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/maxjedeurpalmgren/2019/08/30/swedish-packaging-billionaire-hans-rausing-dies-at-93/|title=Swedish Packaging Billionaire Hans Rausing Dies At 93|first=Max|last=Jedeur-Palmgren|website=Forbes|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830201853/https://www.forbes.com/sites/maxjedeurpalmgren/2019/08/30/swedish-packaging-billionaire-hans-rausing-dies-at-93/|archive-date=30 August 2019|url-status=live}} Retrieved 30 August 2019 Rausing had two brothers, Gad and Sven.{{Cite web|url=http://www.va.se/nyheter/2019/08/30/sveriges-nast-rikaste-hans-rausing-ar-dod/|title=Sveriges näst rikaste Hans Rausing är död|website=Veckans affärer|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830185605/https://www.va.se/nyheter/2019/08/30/sveriges-nast-rikaste-hans-rausing-ar-dod/|archive-date=30 August 2019|url-status=live}} Retrieved 30 August 2019

Rausing studied Economics, Statistics and Russian at Lund University, graduating in 1948.Leander, Lars, Tetra Pak. A Vision Becomes Reality. A company history with a difference, Lund: Tetra Pak International, 1996 ({{ISBN|91-630-4789-6}}), p. 33. In 1954, Rausing was appointed managing director of Tetra Pak and his brother Gad deputy managing director.Leander (1996), p. 29. Rausing became chairman in 1985. He left the company in 1993, and sold his 50% share of the company to Gad in 1995.Frederick C. Ingram, [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2845700098.html "Tetra Pak International SA"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820172129/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2845700098.html |date=20 August 2016}}, International Directory of Company Histories, 2003. Encyclopedia.com, retrieved 22 July 2016.

Tetra Pak's success in the 1970s and 1980s has been credited to the leadership of Hans and Gad Rausing, who turned the six-person family business into a multinational company. Over the course of his career, Rausing became a specialist in Russian affairs and made many investments in Russia and Ukraine. He was responsible for Tetra Pak's Russian market, and negotiated the first Tetra Pak machine export to the Soviet Union in 1959, eventually making Tetra Pak the largest foreign employer in Russia.[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4779/is_12/ai_n28975205/pg_3/?tag=content;col1 Hans Rausing] European Business Forum, retrieved 4 November 2011.

Hans Rausing and his wife Märit donated large sums to charities and research in the UK and Sweden, among others to large medical research projects at Karolinska Institutet and Lund University.[http://www.friendsofki.com/node/66 Hans and Märit Rausing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331150821/http://www.friendsofki.com/node/66 |date=31 March 2012 }}, Karolinska Institutet, retrieved 4 November 2011.[http://www3.lu.se/info/pm/2001/281_pressm.html Hans Rausing Medicine Hedersdoktor] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331150821/http://www3.lu.se/info/pm/2001/281_pressm.html |date=31 March 2012}}, Lund University, retrieved 4 November 2011. Through the Märit and Hans Rausing Fund, they supported local community projects in their home county of Sussex.[http://www.sussexgiving.org.uk/how-to-give/donorview.php?id=4 Professor and Mrs Hans Rausing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406203015/http://www.sussexgiving.org.uk/how-to-give/donorview.php?id=4 |date=6 April 2012 }}, Sussex Community Foundation, retrieved 4 November 2011.

Through her fund Arcadia, Rausing's daughter Lisbet is financing the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, the Hans Rausing Scholarship in the History of Science at King's College London, and the Hans Rausing Chair in the History of Science at Uppsala University, which is also hosting an annual Hans Rausing Lecture in the History of Science.[http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/ The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023093808/http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/ |date=23 October 2011 }}, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, retrieved 7 November 2011.[http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/historyofscience/graduateprogramme/doctoralprogramme/doctoralfunding/hansrausingscholarships The Hans Rausing Scholarship in History of Science] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217140049/http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/historyofscience/graduateprogramme/doctoralprogramme/doctoralfunding/hansrausingscholarships |date=17 December 2014 }}, Imperial College, retrieved 7 November 2011.[http://www.idehist.uu.se/vethist/index.php/rausinglectures/ The Hans Rausing Lectures] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403062821/http://www.idehist.uu.se/vethist/index.php/rausinglectures/ |date=3 April 2012 }}, Uppsala University, retrieved 7 November 2011. The University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science hosts an Annual Hans Rausing Lecture.[http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news/rausing.html Annual Hans Rausing Lecture] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529043323/http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news/rausing.html |date=29 May 2015}}, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Hans Rausing received an honorary doctorate from Lund University.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49530444|title=Tetra Pak billionaire Hans Rausing dies at 93|date=30 August 2019|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830232257/https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49530444|archive-date=30 August 2019|url-status=live|work=BBC News}} Retrieved 30 August 2019 He was a visiting professor at Mälardalens Högskola, Sweden, and honorary professor at the University of Dubna, Russia.[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4779/is_12/ai_n28975205/pg_3/?tag=content;col1 Hans Rausing] European Business Forum, retrieved 4 November 2011 He was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 2006.{{Cite web|url=http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2009-2154/DEP2009-2154.doc|title=Honorary Knighthoods Awarded 1997–2006|access-date=1 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140422054211/http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2009-2154/DEP2009-2154.doc|archive-date=22 April 2014|url-status=live}} He was an honorary fellow of the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, and in 2011 was made an honorary freeman and liveryman at the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newton.ac.uk/about/fellowships/honorary|title=Honorary Fellowship of the Isaac Newton Institute | Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences|website=www.newton.ac.uk|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830185726/https://www.newton.ac.uk/about/fellowships/honorary|archive-date=30 August 2019|url-status=live}} Retrieved 30 August 2019

An article in the Guardian described how Hans Rausing had taken advantage of the UK's "remittance basis" of taxation to reduce his UK tax exposure while UK resident.[https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/apr/11/politics.economy] The Guardian, 11 Apr 2002, How the richest man in Britain avoids tax In 2002, for example, he earned income of around £225M but, according to the report, he incurred UK income tax on only £1M of it, because most of it arose outside the UK and therefore, because he did not "remit" it to the UK, the remittance basis meant he did not incur UK tax on it.

Hans Rausing and his wife Märit Rausing had two daughters, Lisbet and Sigrid, and one son, Hans Kristian Rausing.

From 2001 to 2012, Rausing and his family donated £886,000 to the UK's Conservative Party.{{cite news |last1=Manning |first1=Sanchez |title=A quarter of the UK's richest people give money to the Conservative Party |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/a-quarter-of-the-uks-richest-people-give-money-to-the-conservative-party-7848933.html |access-date=30 August 2019 |work=The Independent |date=14 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830213837/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/a-quarter-of-the-uks-richest-people-give-money-to-the-conservative-party-7848933.html |archive-date=30 August 2019 |url-status=live }}

Rausing was a resident of the UK from 1982 until his death.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/rausing-family-values-the-dark-side-of-a-dynasty-808150.html "Rausing family values: the dark side of a dynasty"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331230816/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/rausing-family-values-the-dark-side-of-a-dynasty-808150.html |date=31 March 2017 }}, The Independent, 11 April 2008, retrieved 10 November 2011. He lived at The New House, Wadhurst Park, East Sussex, until his death on 30 August 2019.Nick Davies, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/apr/11/nickdavies3 "Playing the System"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927181212/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/apr/11/nickdavies3 |date=27 September 2016 }}, The Guardian, 11 April 2002, retrieved 10 November 2011.{{Cite news|url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/hans-rausing-avliden|title=Hans Rausing avliden|newspaper=SVT Nyheter|date=30 August 2019|via=www.svt.se|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830170329/https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/hans-rausing-avliden|archive-date=30 August 2019|url-status=live|last1=Hansson|first1=Anton}}

{{Reflist|30em}}

• [http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/ Arcadia Fund]
• [https://archive.today/20121224080547/http://www.sussexgiving.org.uk/how-to-give/donorview.php?id=4&PHPSESSID=730080f494ab23392c52bf772b2a454d Sussex Community Foundation]

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rausing, Hans}}

Category:1926 births

Category:2019 deaths

Category:20th-century Swedish businesspeople

Category:20th-century Swedish philanthropists

Category:Academic staff of Mälardalen University College

Category:Businesspeople awarded knighthoods

Category:Conservative Party (UK) donors

Category:Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Category:Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Category:Lund University alumni

Hans

Category:Swedish billionaires

Category:Swedish chief executives

Category:Swedish emigrants to the United Kingdom

Category:Businesspeople from Gothenburg