Hartmut Lademacher


Hartmut Lademacher is a German entrepreneur.

Biography

In 1990, Lademacher founded together with Joachim Hertel, Rainer Zimmermann and other IBM executives, the company LHS Specifications GmbH in Dietzenbach. LHS is an acronym for "Lademacher and Hertel Software". In 1997 the company went as the third company ever to the new market. In 2000, the company was sold for 4.7 billion euros to Sema. Lademacher was initially non-executive director at Sema but had to end of November 2000 to resign from that office, when it was revealed that before the release of quarterly figures he had sold Sema shares worth about 100 million DM. In 2004, Lademacher bought back LHS for apparently EUR 50 million to sell it in 2006 to Ericsson.
Lademacher became known to a wider audience when its asset management SMM Germany GmbH bought :de:Villa Andreae|Villa Andreae from the real estate entrepreneur :de:Jürgen Schneider |Jürgen Schneider. His fortune is estimated at EUR 600 million.

Marriage and family

Lademacher is married to Gabriele Lademacher and has two children. His daughter Claire Margareta Lademacher is the wife of Prince Félix of Luxembourg, the second son of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg.