“Culter night”
Dispute of millions of heritage-Veltins son fails in court
In her will she excluded the son-the millions of the long-standing Veltins brewery boss went alone to his sisters. Rightly so, now a court says.
The youngest brother continues to go away empty-handed in the longitudinal dispute over the millions of the brewery family of Veltin. On Thursday, the Arnsberg district court rejected the 63-year-old Carl Clemens Veltins, 63-year-old against his sisters as unfounded.
The will of his mother, who died in 1994, was effective, said the presiding judge. She also explained that a child disinherited a child. Incidentally, claims for a mandatory share he wanted to assert are time -barred.
Successful Veltins brewery to this day in family-owned
The court put the value in dispute at 30 million euros. The 63-year-old had asked for appropriate participation in the heritage of the mother and long-time company boss in court.
Shortly after his 18th birthday, Carl Clemens Veltins, according to his own representation, had not in writing to the compulsory portion of his inheritance. In court, he intervened that the scope of his signature was not clear to him at the time. After a night of night, his mother surprised him. “I didn’t know anything. I swear,” he said before the district court.
Son in question the mother’s will
Carl Clemens Veltins had also argued that the will in which his mother considered the two sisters, but disinherited the youngest son, was ineffective because she was no longer testable due to illness and change. However, he was unable to provide proof of this, according to the court. So the defendants had brought up that their mother had run the brewery business until shortly before her death.
Defendant were the plaintiff’s sisters, one of them the current brewery owner. Susanne Veltins leads the company together with its nephew Fabian Veltins – it is therefore in the sixth generation of family -owned. On Thursday they stayed away from the negotiation.
Judgment not yet final
In the ranking of the industry magazine “Inside” of the most drunk beer brands in Germany, Veltins is in third place to Krombacher and Bitburger. The turnover of the more than 700 employees brewery in the Hochsauerlandkreis rose by 4.1 percent to 459 million euros.
It is “exclusively a legal dispute that affects members of the family,” said the company on request. There is therefore no economic impact on the brewery business.
The judgment is not yet final. An appeal to the Higher Regional Court is possible.
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Source: Stern
