In April 2018, billionaire Karl-Erivan Haub disappears without a trace on a ski tour in the Alps. The Cologne District Court has declared him dead. The decision could become final this week.
An important deadline has expired in the proceedings for the declaration of death of the head of the Tengelmann trading group, Karl-Erivan Haub, who was missing on a ski tour in the Swiss Alps.
If no complaint is received against the decision of the Cologne District Court by midnight on Tuesday (June 22nd), the billionaire will be legally declared dead.
Karl-Ervian Haub, one of the richest Germans, set out on a ski tour in Zermatt alone on April 7, 2018 and never returned. The family assumes that the then 58-year-old had a fatal accident on the Klein Matterhorn. In October last year, the family filed an application to declare Karl-Erivan Haub dead.
The Cologne district court had declared Haub dead in May. In the past few months there had been media reports about doubts about the death of the experienced skier. The court does not consider it provable. Such assumptions were based “on possibilities, assumptions and non-verifiable documents,” the court found. They are not sufficient to “remove the serious doubts about the continued existence of the missing person”.
A complaint against this decision is possible. According to the court, however, it can only appeal if someone has a legal interest in revoking the declaration of death or in correcting the time of death.
After Karl-Erivan Haub’s disappearance, his younger brother Christian took over the sole management of the Tengelmann Group. But since then a family dispute has simmered over the redistribution of power in the multi-billion dollar retail group, which includes the textile discounter Kik and the hardware store chain Obi.
So far, the family company has belonged to a good third each to Karl-Erivan Haub and the current boss Christian Haub. The third brother Georg Haub owns the remaining shares. The application for a declaration of death was initially sharply criticized by the wife of the missing person, Katrin Haub. In early 2021, she surprisingly changed her mind and joined the application along with her children. In April, the heirs of Karl-Erivan Haub finally agreed to sell their shares in Tengelmann Warenhandels-KG to Christian Haub, as the lawyers on both sides had announced.
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