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September 17, 2024

The Crime Behind Germany’s Biggest Fortune

The story of Klaus-Michael Kuehne.

Klaus-Michael Kuehne is the richest man in Germany, heir to the freight-forwarding firm Kuehne + Nagel, which was cofounded by his grandfather and which he has stewarded for much of his life. A supporter of the centrist Christian Democratic Union (the party of the former chancellor Angela Merkel) and generous philanthropist, Kuehne lives the sort of life one expects from Europe’s super-rich: dividing his time among his estate near Lake Zurich, his chalet in the Swiss Alps, his yacht, and his villa in Mallorca. David De Jong takes a look at his company’s dark past, a story that begins in 1933, when Hitler took power:

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