Georg Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza | |
Birth Date: | 1950 3, df=y |
Birth Place: | Lugano, Switzerland |
Death Place: | Zürich, Switzerland |
Partner: | Catharina Eleonore Meran-Brandhofen |
Father: | Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza |
Mother: | Princess Maria Theresa Amalia of Lippe-Weissenfeld |
Family: | Thyssen-Bornemisza |
Georg Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza (19 March 1950 – 30 September 2022) was the chairman of the private venture capital firm TBG AG,[1] which operates as the investment arm of the Thyssen-Bornemisza family.[2]
Georg Heinrich was the eldest son of noted industrialist and art collector Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921–2002) from his first wife, Princess Teresa Amalia Franziska Elisabeth Maria of Lippe-Weissenfeld (1925–2008), second child and the only daughter of Prince Alfred of Lippe-Weissenfeld (1896–1970) and Franziska, Countess of Schönborn-Buchheim (1902–1987).
Under his chairmanship, TBG has undertaken several large acquisitions, including the $900M purchase in 2017 of US-based weather and data analytics company DTN,[3] and the 2018 purchase of European weather firm MeteoGroup for an undisclosed sum.[4] He was among the wealthiest individuals in Switzerland.[5] He had been chairman of the Zürich-based NOMIS Foundation since its founding in 2008.