Klaus-Michael Kuehne Net Worth

Klaus-Michael Kuehne is a Swiss-German businessman and philanthropist who joined his grandfather's transportation and logistics company, Kuehne + Nagel KG, in 1958 and eventually became CEO in 1966. He now owns 53% of the publicly traded Kuehne + Nagel International AG, which has 70,000 employees in more than 100 countries. He divides his time between his homes in Switzerland, Spain, and Germany, and is a frequent visitor to his hometown of Hamburg. He has founded the Hamburg School of Logistics, now known as Kuehne Logistics University, and has pledged $54 million to the university over the next 5 years. He also supports the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and Technical University of Berlin. He has also transformed a 600-year-old castle into a hotel and acquired the insolvent InterContinental Hotel in Hamburg. An only child with no children, his charitable foundation the Kuehne-Stiftung will manage his wealth upon his death.
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