Tengelmann heirs: How the Haub family fights over their huge ranch in Wyoming

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Quarrel in paradise

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A family row rages

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Photo: Sherman Thomas

It is a beautiful piece of earth: In Pinedale in the US state of Wyoming, one of the richest German families has created a retreat.

A 2500 hectare area with lakes, mountains and bison breeding, in the midst of a breathtaking landscape - the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains rise majestically on the horizon.

From the 1980s, Tengelmann Patriarch

hectares and hectares here, not far from the famous Yellowstone National Park, in order to create a refuge for his wife

(86) and their three sons.

Each of the children has their own property there, the parents lived in the manor house.

The head of the clan passed his life here on March 6, 2018, and he was also buried here.

In the meantime, however, paradise has become a battle zone.

The patriarch's heirs are deeply divided.

And at the ranch it becomes clear how far the injuries in the family now extend and with which methods specially engaged PR strategists and lawyers struggle for the sovereignty of interpretation in public.

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