39. Harald Quandt Died a Billionaire
Harald Quandt was Magda Goebbels’ son from an earlier marriage to an industrialist before she met and married Joseph Goebbels. After the war, Harald went to work for his biological father’s business – a holding group of over 200 companies, including a 30% stake in BMW, and a 10% share of Daimler Benz. When his father died in 1954, Harald’s inheritance made him one of West Germany’s richest men. He proved himself a shrewd businessman, and when he died in a plane crash in 1967, he left his offspring a fortune of about 1.5 billion Deutsche Mark. Today, his descendants are worth an estimated U$6 billion.