Martin Walter Haefner (born 1954) is a Swiss

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...

, the son of

Walter Haefner Walter Haefner (13 September 1910 – 19 June 2012) was a Swiss businessman and a thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder in Ireland. As a young man Haefner went to work in the auto industry as an employee of the Swiss division of General Mo ...

Early life

He is the son of

. When his father died in 2012, aged 101, he was the world's oldest billionaire, and had a net worth of US$4.3 billion.

Career

Haefner studied mathematics at the

ETH Zurich (colloquially) , former_name = eidgenössische polytechnische Schule , image = ETHZ.JPG , image_size = , established = , type = Public , budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021) , rector = Günther Dissertori , president = Joël Mesot , ac ...

. For many years he worked as a high-school teacher. At the age of 50, his father put him in charge of AMAG, the family-owned importer of Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and SEAT cars into Switzerland. After the death of their father, Haefner and his sister Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner divided 2018 their heritage such that Martin Haefner became sole owner of AMAG. Through the sale of their participation in the US software company

CA Technologies CA Technologies, formerly known as CA, Inc. and Computer Associates International, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in New York City. It is primarily known for its business-to-business (B2B) software with a product po ...

, funds were available for additional investments. Haefner became the main shareholder of

Schmolz + Bickenbach Schmolz + Bickenbach AG (renamed since September 2020 as Swiss Steel Holding AG and Swiss Steel Group) is a listed steel group based in Lucerne / Switzerland. The group employs more than 10'000 people and generated revenues of EUR 3.3 billion i ...

, a steel producer with factories in several countries.Maurizio Minetti
''Amag-Erbe Martin Haefner: Der Mann im Hintergrund.''
Luzerner Zeitung, 14 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2020

Personal life

He is married and lives in

Horw Horw (; Swiss German: ''Horb'') is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. History Horw is first mentioned in 1231 as ''Horwe''. Geography Horw has an area of . Of this area, 32.6% is used for agri ...

, Canton of Lucerne.

References

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