The guesswork about Tengelmann boss Karl-Erivan Haub, who disappeared in 2018, continues. The Cologne public prosecutor’s office is currently examining whether they will apply to the Cologne district court to have the declaration of death for Karl-Erivan Haub annulled because new alleged evidence has emerged that could suggest that the billionaire is still alive. This is what the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung writes, citing senior public prosecutor Ulrich Bremer.
However, it was not announced exactly what the evidence was, only that a journalist had submitted documents. Other media such as RTL and Stern had previously reopened the case. This evidence could include, for example, photos taken by a surveillance camera in Moscow in 2021 that “highly likely” show Karl-Erivan Haub.
Karl-Erivan Haub, one of the richest Germans, had not returned from a ski tour in Zermatt, Switzerland, in April 2018 and had been missing for three years. In 2021 he was declared dead by the district court of Cologne at the request of his family. Since Karl-Erivan Haub’s disappearance, his brother Christian Haub has been running the family business, which, in addition to Tengelmann, also owns the textile discounter Kik and the DIY chain Obi.
So far, the family company has belonged to Karl-Erivan Haub and the current boss Christian Haub. The third brother Georg Haub owned the remaining shares. After a long-simmering family dispute, Karl-Erivan Haub’s heirs agreed in April 2021 to sell their shares in Tengelmann Warenhandels-KG to Christian Haub.