Renate Reimann-Haas (born 8 October 1951) is a German-Austrian entrepreneur and heiress who owns a quarter of

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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 JAB Holding Company ("JAB" or Joh. A. Benckiser) is a German conglomerate, headquartered in Luxembourg, that includes investments in companies operating in the areas of consumer goods, forestry, coffee, luxury fashion, animal health, and fast foo ...

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

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& Colman to form Reckitt Benckiser. In 2005, together with her brother Wolfgang and her half-siblings

Stefan Reimann-Andersen Stefan Reimann-Andersen (born 13 July 1963) is an Austrian-German entrepreneur. Together with three of his siblings, they own 95% of Luxembourg-based investment firm JAB Holding Company. Stefan Reimann-Andersen was born in the family of , the ...

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

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. Reiman-Haas holds a doctorate in chemistry and worked in the organic chemistry department at the

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with Heinz A. Staab in

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until the mid-2000s. Together, they published several specialist articles in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

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, but otherwise lived an inconspicuous life. There are almost no interviews and photos of her. 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.

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estimated her net worth at $3.9 billion in 2021.

References

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