- Madeleine Schickedanz
Madeleine Schickedanz (born
20 October 1943 inNuremberg ) is a German entrepeneur. She is the daughter of Gustav and Grete Schickedanz, the founders of catalog retailer Quelle Versand, which merged withKarstadt to form one ofEurope 's largest companies.Fact|date=August 2008Life
Madeleine Schickedanz holds a degree as a business economist and is married to her third husband Leo Herl. The pair lives secludedly in either
Fürth orSt. Moritz as they wish. Schickedanz has four children, two each from her former marriages to Hans-Georg Mangold and Wolfgang Bühler, both of them who were Quelle managers.After her daughter Caroline successfully overcame
leucemia in1990 , Schickedanz founded the "Madeleine Schickedanz KinderKrebs-Stiftung", a charity that supports children who suffer fromcancer .She is the 13th richest woman in the world, and the 142nd richest person in the world. [cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07billionaires_Madeleine-Schickedanz_YCB9.html|title=The World's Billionaires, #142 Madeleine Schickedanz|publisher=Forbes.com|date=3 August 2007|accessdate=3 August|accessyear=2008] She is part of the
Schickedanz family , one of the richest in the world.References
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*deExternal links
* [http://www.kinderkrebsstiftung-schickedanz.de Homepage of "Madeleine Schickedanz KinderKrebs-Stiftung"]
* [http://www.handelsblatt.com/News/printpage.aspx?_p=200811&_t=ftprint&_b=1074500 "Madeleine Schickedanz: Hinten in der Villa"] ,Handelsblatt , 8 Mai 2006
* [http://www.manager-magazin.de/koepfe/unternehmerarchiv/0,2828,druck-287926,00.html „Madeleine Schickedanz: Die Versandhaus-Diva“] , manager magazin, 27 February 2004
* [http://www.cicero.de/97.php?ress_id=6&item=924 "Die Weihnachtsfrau"] , Cicero, December 2005
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