Stefan previously held a 17.4 percent stake in BMW and Susanne's was 12.5 percent, meaning the whole Quandt family held 46.6 percent together.

Susanne Klatten is learning what it's like to live a recurring nightmare. Last year, the heiress to BMW's controversial controlling Quandt family fortune was blackmailed by Helg Sgarbi, a conman ...

The family that owns BMW has admitted to using slave labor during World War II. Some 50,000 forced laborers are estimated to have worked in the factories of Guenther Quandt, producing arms for the ...

The Quandt family, largest shareholder in car maker BMW <BMWG.DE>, is not interested in DaimlerChrysler <DAIGn.DE>, a newspaper reported on Tuesday in an article ahead of publication on Wednesday.