Renate Reimann-Haas
{{Short description|Austrian-German entrepreneur}}
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Renate Reimann-Haas (born 8 October 1951) is a German-Austrian entrepreneur and heiress who owns a quarter of JAB Holding Company.
Life and career
Reimann-Haas is the great-great-granddaughter of Karl Ludwig Reimann and comes from the wealthy entrepreneurial family Reimann. She is the oldest biological daughter of Albert Reimann from his illegitimate relationship with Emilie Landecker (1922-2017). In 1965, she was adopted by Albert together with her two siblings Wolfgang Reimann and Andrea Reimann-Ciardelli.
In 1984, Reimann-Haas inherited 11.1% of Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH from her father, which in 1999 merged with the British listed company Reckitt & Colman to form Reckitt Benckiser. In 2005, together with her brother Wolfgang and her half-siblings Stefan Reimann-Andersen and Matthias Reimann-Andersen, she founded the non-profit Benckiser Stiftung Zukunft. In 2019, as a result of the family's involvement with the Nazi regime, the foundation was transferred to the Alfred Landecker Foundation based in Berlin.{{cite web|title=Heiß und kalt|periodical=|publisher=|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/reimann-heiss-und-kalt-1.3846601|url-status=|format=|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=Süddeutsche Zeitung|date=|year=|language=de|pages=|quote=}}
Reiman-Haas holds a doctorate in chemistry and worked in the organic chemistry department at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research with Heinz A. Staab in Heidelberg until the mid-2000s.{{cite web |url=https://www.northdata.de/?id=7466339 |title=Joh. A. Benckiser AG - Neueintragung · Prokura (5 Personen) · Vorstand (1 Person) |language=de |accessdate=1 June 2021}} Together, they published several specialist articles in the journal Angewandte Chemie.{{cite journal |author=Renate Reimann, Heinz A. Staab |title=Versuche zur Darstellung zwitterionischer Donor-Acceptor-Cyclophane: Die diastereomeren 12,15-Bis(dimethylamino) - [2](2,5) - p -benzochinono[2]paracyclophane |journal=Angewandte Chemie |volume=90 |number=5 |year=1978 |doi=10.1002/ange.19780900514 |pages=385–386 |bibcode=1978AngCh..90..385R |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ange.19780900514 |accessdate=31 May 2021|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |author=Heinz A. Staab, Renate Reimann-Haas, Peter Ulrich, Claus Krieger |title=Elektron-Donor-Acceptor-Verbindungen, XXX. Elektron-Donor-Acceptor-[2.2]Paracyclophane mitN,N,N′,N′-Tetramethyl-p-phenylendiamin (TMPD) als Donor-Einheit |journal=Chemische Berichte |volume=116 |number=8 |year=1983 |issn=0009-2940 |doi=10.1002/cber.19831160808 |pages=2808–2826 |url=https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemFullPage.jsp?itemId=item_3039114_1 |accessdate=31 May 2021|url-access=subscription }}
Personal life
At her former place of residence in Laudenbach, Reimann-Haas was briefly chairwoman of the Musikverein Laudenbach e.V. and played the clarinet in the BigBand,{{cite web |author=Musikverein Laudenbach e.V. |url=http://www.bigband-laudenbach.de/ |title=Big Band Laudenbach |accessdate=2 June 2021}} but otherwise lived an inconspicuous life. There are almost no interviews and photos of her.{{cite web |author=Finanzen100 |url=https://www.finanzen100.de/finanznachrichten/boerse/die-reimanns-deutschlands-reichste-familie-hat-alles-nur-kein-gesicht_H1836020024_7709254/ |title=Die Reimanns: Deutschlands reichste Familie hat alles - nur kein Gesicht |language=de |accessdate=31 May 2021}}{{cite web |author=Rüdiger Kiani-Kreß |url=https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/handel/familie-reimann-deutschlands-geheimnisvollste-milliardaere/11532124.html |title=Familie Reimann: Deutschlands geheimnisvollste Milliardäre |language=de |accessdate=31 May 2021}}
Reimann-Haas is married and has three children, Evelin, Susanne and Martin Haas. In 2006, she acquired Austrian citizenship and has not lived in Germany since. Forbes estimated her net worth at $3.9 billion in 2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/renate-reimann-haas/ |title=Renate Reimann-Haas |website=Forbes |language=en |accessdate=31 May 2021}}
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Category:Austrian billionaires