Harald Quandt

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Harald Quandt (November 1 1921, Charlottenburg—September 22 1967, 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 1927, but remained on extremely friendly terms. Magda later married Goebbels at a property owned by Günther; Harald remained with his biological father, Günther, who became a prominent business leader in the Third Reich.

He served as an 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) at the beginning of the 1950s, and had five daughters: Katarina Geller (1951), Gabriele Quandt-Langenscheidt (1952), Anette May-Thies (1954), Colleen-Bettina Rosenblat (1962) and Patricia Halterman (1967). He died in 1967 when his personal Beechcraft King Air aircraft crashed in Italy.