Ms. Quandt was the third wife of Herbert Quandt, a German businessman whose financial backing allowed BMW to resist a takeover bid in 1959 from Daimler, helping to set the stage for BMW to become one of the world's best-known car brands and a symbol …
The mysterious and elusive Quandt family is in hot water again, nearly two years after its Nazi connections during World War II were exposed. The German family's patriarch, Herbert Quandt, nearly single-handedly saved BMW from being bought out by …