Hartmut Lademacher | |
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Born | July 5, 1948 |
Known for | Founder of LHS Telekommunikation |
Net worth | US $600 million |
Spouse(s) | Gabriele Schneider |
Children | Felix Lademacher Princess Claire of Luxembourg |
Hartmut Lademacher (born 5 July 1948) is a German entrepreneur.
In 1990, Lademacher founded together with Joachim Hertel, Rainer Zimmermann and other IBM executives, the company LHS Specifications GmbH in Dietzenbach. LHS is an acronym for "Lademacher and Hertel Software". In 1997 the company went as the third company ever to the new market. In 2000, the company for 4.7 billion euros of Sema company was acquired. Lademacher was initially non-executive director at Sema, but had to end of November 2000 to resign from that office, when it was revealed that he had sold before the release of quarterly figures Sema shares worth about 100 million DM. In 2004, Lademacher bought back the enterprise for EUR 50 million to sell it in 2006 to Ericsson.
Lademacher became known to a wider audience when its asset management SMM Germany GmbH bought , from the real estate entrepreneur . His fortune is estimated at EUR 600 million.
Lademacher is married to Gabriele Lademacher (née Schneider) and has two children. His daughter Claire Margareta Lademacher is the wife of Prince Félix of Luxembourg, the second son of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg.