1. Hans Rausing made his fortune from his co-inheritance of Tetra Pak, a company founded by his father Ruben Rausing, and the largest food packaging company in the world.
11 Facts About Hans Rausing
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Hans Rausing was born in Gothenburg in 1926, the second son of industrialist Ruben Hans Rausing and his wife Elisabeth.
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Hans Rausing studied Economics, Statistics and Russian at Lund University, graduating in 1948.
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In 1954, Hans Rausing was appointed managing director of Tetra Pak and his brother Gad deputy managing director.
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Hans Rausing was responsible for Tetra Pak's Russian market, and negotiated the first Tetra Pak machine export to the Soviet Union in 1959, eventually making Tetra Pak the largest foreign employer in Russia.
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Hans Rausing was a visiting professor at Malardalens Hogskola, Sweden, and honorary professor at the University of Dubna, Russia.
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Hans Rausing was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2006.
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Hans Rausing was an honorary fellow of the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, and in 2011 was made an honorary freeman and liveryman at the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London.
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An article in the Guardian described how Hans Rausing had taken advantage of the UK's "remittance basis" of taxation to reduce his UK tax exposure while UK resident.
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Hans Rausing was a resident of the UK from 1982 until his death.
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Hans Rausing lived at The New House, Wadhurst Park, East Sussex, until his death on 30 August 2019.