The story of Harald Quant [<- Quandt]

[Oswald Spengler]

What did happen to Magda Goebbels surviving son?

And what is his war history?

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[George Harper]

He was an Officer in Fallschirm Pionier Bataillon 1 (of 1FJD) and served in Italy. After the War, he apparantly had trouble dealing with his family history and War service. He lived life in the fast lane and died young. I don't recall if he died in a plane crash or a sports car crash. Perhaps someone else knows the precise details?

Cheers,

George.

[Dieter Zinke]

His name is QUANDT

Using the Google-search you have 13.900 hits !!

D. Zinke

[Max Williams]

Oswald,
Welcome to the forum.
Being new to the forum you may not have noticed the search button at the top of the page. This is an excellent facility which should answer your question as Quandt has been dicussed previously.
Max.

[Oswald Spengler]

Thanks George, Dieter and Max..

Sorry - it was a amateur-question.. thanks for the guidance.. After just joing this magneficent forum i was eager to communicate..

By the way, quite a dramatic postwar story:

"Harald Quandt was a keen pilot and survived an accident at Zurich International Airport. He also was a sailor, played the drums and the accordion and built a large model railway with an area of 80 square metres in his house.

Quandt married Inge Bandekow (1928-1978) and with whom he had five daughters: Katarina Geller (1951), Gabriele Quandt-Langenscheidt (1952), Anette May-Thies (1954), Patricia Halterman (1957), Colleen-Bettina Rosenblat (1962).

Colleen is a jewelery designer who converted to Judaism at the end of the 1980s, while Gabriele, who is married to the publisher Florian Langenscheidt, held a 2004 photo exhibition raising more than 1000 Euros for the Children for a Better World charity.[1]

Harald died in 1967 when his personal Beechcraft King Air aircraft crashed in Italy.

Inge re-married after his death, but was shot by her new husband on December 24, 1978 in a murder-suicide".

From the wikipedia-article...

[Andreas1984]

I have further information:

- Harald Quandt was injured by a shot into his lungs during the fights around Monte Cassino; there he became POW and was arrested in a POW-camp in North Africa, where he was supplied by German doctors
- when his mother and his stepfather died Harald was in Benghasi (Lybien)
- in prision Harald became the information of the suicide of his family (mother, stepfahther and his brothers/sisters).

Best regards

Andreas

Source: Rüdiger Jungbluth: Die Quandts - ihr leiser Aufstieg zur mächtigsten Wirtschaftsdynastie Deutschlands

[genstab]

I seem to remember reading something about Herr Quandt being a high official in Daimler Benz after the war. Anybody know if this is true?

Best regards,
Genstab

[Andreas1984]

@ genstab:

Right. Harald Quandt and his brother Herbert Quandt inherited shares of Daimler-Benz from their dead father Guenther Quandt. But I don't know how much it was.
Kindest regards

Andreas