Name
Hans Rausing
Primary Residence
Wadhurst, United Kingdom
Citizenship
Sweden
Source Of Wealth
packaging
Net Worth
$12,000,000,000
Forbes Profile
Forbes 2019 Billionaires List Rank:
112
Forbes List Rank One: Title
#112 Billionaires 2019
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Summary
Hans Rausing's father founded packaging giant Tetra Laval in 1944. Hans and his brother Gad inherited the business in 1983, the year their father diedRausing moved to the U.K. in the early 1980s to avoid punitive Swedish taxes. He sold his share in the company to Gad for an estimated $7 billion in 1995.Rausing now resides on a 900-acre estate in the village of Wadhurst where he breeds deer and wild boar. He also has homes in London and Barbados.His Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at the University of London supports research, training, and archiving of disappearing languages.
Did you know?
His daughter-in-law died of a drug overdose in 2012. His drug addict son, Hans-Kristian, who hid the body for eight weeks, has since been to rehab and is remarried.Hans is 6'8" tall, a fluent Russian speaker and collector of vintage cars.
Age
93
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Number of Children
3
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