US EditionShipping titan Helmut Sohmen dies at the age of 85
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The Austrian shipowner and billionaire Helmut Sohmen is dead. As the "Krone" learned, Sohmen died at the age of 86 in Hong Kong, where the native of Linz lived and rose to become one of the richest Austrians. Sohmen was a central personality of the society in Hong Kong since 1970. He was known as a human friend and cultural sponsor. The billionaire was an important mediator of Austrian-Chinese relations and also on the board of the Austrian-Chin…
The Upper Austrian became almost 86 years old. He made the BW Group one of the largest shipping companies in the world.
Upper Austrian billionaire Helmut Sohmen died in Hong Kong at the age of 85. His assets are estimated at 5.9 billion euros.
Born in 1939, Linzer, billionaire and shipowner Helmut Sohmen died in Hong Kong on October 26. This was confirmed by the shipping company BW-Group on Monday on the company website. Previously, the magazine "trend", the "Oberösterreichische Nachrichten" and orf.at reported about it. The son of sudetenGerman emigrants studied Jus in Vienna and the USA, where he met his wife Anna - the daughter of the great shipown Yue-Kong Pao, one of the richest …
LINZ. From the refugee child from Linz to an entrepreneur with international radiance and one of the richest in the world: Helmut Sohmen's career path went steeply upwards.
The billionaire Helmut Sohmen from Linz passed away in Hong Kong at the age of 86. He had been the head and owner of a shipping company for many years and was one of the 500 richest people in the world. LINZ, HONGKONG. Sohmen had lived as a child of sudetenGerman emigrants in the Franckviertel district of Linz and met his future wife during his studies abroad in Canada: Anna Pui Hing Pao was the daughter of a large Asian shipowner. Sohmen took o…
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