HARALD QUANDT

'Harald Quandt' (November 1 1921, Charlottenburg—September 221967, Cuneo, Italy), the child of Magda Goebbels and entrepreneur Günther Quandt, was the stepson of Joseph Goebbels.
Quandt was the result of a marriage between Günther Quandt and the then Magda Behrend Rietschel in 1921. The couple divorced in 1929, but remained on extremely friendly terms. Magda later married Goebbels at a property owned by Günther. After his mother's re-marriage, Harald remained with his biological father, Günther, who became a prominent business leader in the Third Reich, until 1934. Nevertheless he paid regular visits to his mother, stepfather and little siblings during this time. After 1934, he returned to his mother and lived with the Goebbels family until passing his school leaving examination in 1940. Residing with his adopted family, he raised several eyebrows by supporting the sloganeering of the Indian politician Bose. For this reason he was sent away to the front in Italy.
He served as a Lieutenant in the Luftwaffe during World War II, being injured and later captured by Allied troops in Italy in 1944. In 1954 he and his half-brother Herbert Quandt inherited their father's company Quandt Holdings and Harald became one of the wealthiest men in West Germany.
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), who was the daughter of the company's lawyer and worked as a secretary with his father, at the beginning of the 1950s. In the following 17 years, the couple had five daughters: Katarina Geller (1951), Gabriele Quandt-Langenscheidt (1952), Anette May-Thies (1954), Colleen-Bettina Rosenblat (1962) and Patricia Halterman (1967-2005). He died in 1967 when his personal aircraft crashed in Italy.

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★ Goebbels children

★ Herbert Quandt

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Jungbluth von Rüdiger, ''Die Quandts'', 2002 (ISBN 3-404-61550-6)