German billionaire declared dead after Swiss Alps disappearance
The view from the Trockener Steg gondola station, where the last mobile phone signal of Karl-Erivan Haub was detected Keystone/dominic Steinmann
A German court on Friday officially declared billionaire Karl-Erivan Haub dead, more than three years after the head of retail group Tengelmann went missing in the Swiss Alps.
This content was published on May 14, 2021 - 15:49
May 14, 2021 - 15:49
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Haub, who was 58, was training for a ski mountaineering race when he vanished on the Matterhorn, the iconic mountain on Switzerland’s southern border with Italy.
He was last seen on the morning of April 7, 2018, as he headed up a mountain lift with skis and a daypack. The billionaire was reported missing to police the following morning after he failed to show up at his hotel in Zermatt.