I immediately recognized the Goebbels family, appropriately placed here, but had to ask who the uniformed man is.
The man standing in uniform behind them is Harald Quandt, Magda's son from her first marriage to industrialist Gnther Quandt. Harald was Joseph Goebbels' stepson and served as a Luftwaffe officer during World War II.
Harald Quandt, Magda's son from her first marriage, was not in Berlin at the time. He was serving as a Luftwaffe officer and was captured by Allied forces in Italy. He survived the war and later became a prominent industrialist, inheriting part of the Quandt family's vast holdings including stakes in companies like BMW.
Yes after WWII, Harald Quandt became one of the two heirs who rebuilt and expanded the Quandt industrial empire, which today is most famous for its controlling stake in BMW.
After their father Gnther Quandt died in 1954, Harald and his halfbrother Herbert Quandt jointly inherited a sprawling industrial portfolio. This included:
Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA, later VARTA (batteries)
IWKA (machinery)
Dynamit Nobel (chemicals and explosives)
Other metal, manufacturing, and industrial suppliers
Herbert focused more heavily on BMW, while Harald managed other industrial holdings but both benefited from the empire's growth. Quandt family still controls ~46%
Harald died in 1967 in a plane crash in Italy.
He left behind five daughters, who inherited his industrial stakes today worth billions.
