22 Facts About Lars Windhorst

Lars Windhorst was born on November 22,1976 and is a German entrepreneur and co-founder of Sapinda Group.

Lars Windhorst is best known for being the owner of fashion company La Perla.

Lars Windhorst notably founded businesses in his teens, filing for bankruptcy in 2003 as a result of the Dot-com bubble.

In December 2007, shortly after Christmas, Windhorst was severely injured during a plane crash in Kazakhstan.

Lars Windhorst mobilised his classmates to help him build PCs, which he later sold in his father's shop, while seeking suppliers of individual components in China.

Lars Windhorst was helped in administering its operations by his parents, given he was underage, such as by signing contracts on his behalf and driving him to work.

Lars Windhorst became well known as one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in Germany.

In October 1993, Lars Windhorst founded his first company, Lars Windhorst Electronics GmbH, alongside Chinese businessman Ming Rong Zhang.

In 1995, Lars Windhorst moved to Hong Kong and founded Lars Windhorst Asia Pacific Holding Limited, a holding company for the business operations of the group in Asia.

Until 1996, the Lars Windhorst Group expanded its business as a trading and investment firm in the electronics, industry, trade, real estate and finance sectors.

Lars Windhorst had offices and branches in Europe and Asia, including mainland China and Vietnam.

In 2000, Lars Windhorst founded Lars Windhorst New Technologies AG with a focus on investments in the internet and new technologies sectors.

In 2004, Lars Windhorst became co-founder of the Sapinda investment group, which coordinates financing with its affiliate, Anoa Capital, to provide funding to public, private and start-up companies.

Together with Carl Heinrich Bruhn, Lars Windhorst set up Amatheon Agri to give Sapinda Holding BV exposure to the African agricultural sector, according to German news magazine Der Spiegel.

Lars Windhorst filed for personal bankruptcy in the summer of 2007.

In 2010, Lars Windhorst faced a civil suit by Alki Partners, an American hedge fund, which filed papers in a Manhattan court alleging that he and others took part in a "fraudulent scheme" to "manipulate" the share price of Remote DX, a US company.

Lars Windhorst is a founding patron of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery and member of the Council of Trustees of the Serpentine Gallery in London.

Lars Windhorst purchased part of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude collection, including documents and objects involved in the 1995 Reichstag "wrapping".

In November 2015, Norbert Lammert, President of the Bundestag, and the artist Christo opened an exhibition displaying 400 original drawings and sketches of the wrapping after Lars Windhorst donated the works to the Bundestag until 2035.

From 2002 to 2012, Lars Windhorst served as board of trustees of the Mentor Foundation, and collaborates with the Ein Herz fur Kinder foundation.

In June 2019, Lars Windhorst bought stakes of Bundesliga side Hertha BSC.

In September 2022 the Financial Times revealed that Lars Windhorst had commissioned Israeli private intelligence company Shibumi Strategy to orchestrate a campaign against Hertha's then-president Werner Gegenbauer.