Lars Windhorst net worth

Short introduction

Lars Windhorst is a businessman from Germany and one of the founders of the Sapinda group. In 2015 the net worth is estimated at £ 320 million. He founded his first teenage company and submitted bankruptcy in 2003 as a result of dot-com bubbles. The following year, Windhorst founded Sapinda Group. After restructuring, Sapinda Holding BV, founded in 2009, was a parent company from the group. Windhorst is the non-executive chairman.

In December 2007, shortly after Christmas, Windhorst was seriously injured in a plane crash in Kazakhstan. One of the pilots died when the Bombardier Challenger 604 crashed into the wall, out of the runway in Almaty and exploded.

Early life

At the age of 14, Windhorst, the son of a local stationery trader, changed the family garage in his hometown Rahden into an emergency computer lab. He mobilized his classmates to help him build a PC which he then sold at his father’s shop while looking for suppliers of individual components in China.

He founded his first company at school in 1993. Since he was underage, his parents helped him manage his operation by signing the contract in his name and driving him to work. Windhorst is known as one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in Germany. As a magic child, he and Bill Gates were invited to travel to Asia with a former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as part of the official government delegation. On this trip, Windhorst made international business contact.

Career highlights

Lars Windhorst founded the Antarheon Agri along with Carl Heinrich Bruhn to allow Sapinda to hold BV to be involved in the African agricultural sector, according to German news magazine Der Spiegel. Windhorst said in an interview that Sapinda’s business arranged an investment of around EUR 3.5 billion between 2009 and 2012, including loans for companies such as air Berlin and Infineon. Mitra Sapinda includes Roland Berger, a management consultant whose advisory council is led by Hubertus Von Grünberg, who is also the head of the Swiss Group ABB Ltd.

Windhorst filed bankruptcy in the summer of 2007. According to an article in the German news magazine focus on 3 September 2007, a lawsuit filed by General Creditor Ulrich Marseille was rejected by a federal court in August. Which means that the windhorst debt has been paid.

In 2009, the Public Prosecutor Berlin charged Windhorst with fraud, violations of trust, embezzlement and some bankruptcy crimes. Windhorst’s confidence violations including the EUR 800,000 transfer to one of the alternative accounts. The prosecutor agreed to cancel the accusation of fraud if he fined € 1 million, replaced the alleged victims, and acknowledged the affair after the completion of the appeal. In the trial which began on December 18, 2009, the trial was stopped and the amount paid.