Hans-Georg Karg

His father Georg Karg (1888-1972) was a buyer at Hermann Tietz Warenhäuser. In 1933, he joined the management of the department store group. The Tietz family, which was Jewish, was forced to sell their shares as part of the Aryanization process imposed by the Nazis. Georg Karg acquired the Hertie company from Dresdner Bank by 1942.

Hans-Georg Karg was born into a well-off middle-class family in Berlin-Charlottenburg. After finishing school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Paul Reetz textile company in Liegnitz, Lower Silesia, from 1938 to 1941. He spent the years 1943 and 1944 and the end of the war as a soldier in Italy.

From then on, Hans-Georg lived in seclusion with his wife in Bad Homburg, but mainly at Gut Sossau near Grabenstätt in Chiemgau. There he pursued his passion as a farmer. He also amassed an important collection of Max Liebermann's works. From 1989, Mr. and Mrs. Karg dedicated themselves to establishing the charitable Karg Foundation for the gifted, to which Hans-Georg Karg bequeathed his entire private fortune upon his death. In 2003, the businessman and benefactor Hans-Georg Karg died, marked by many years of serious illness. Adelheid Karg died in 2004.