Isolde Liebherr

Born in Memmingen,^[3] Isolde Liebherr grew up in the Upper Swabian village of Kirchdorf and Biberach as the fourth of five children of company founder Hans Liebherr. After graduating high school, she completed a degree in economics and achieved the academic degree Diplom-Kauffrau.

She is the mother of three daughters and lives in Bulle, Switzerland.^[4]

After earning her management degree in 1976, she joined her father's company.^[5] In the mid-seventies, she took over the services division within the Liebherr Group and was responsible for the hotels and other properties of the company. These include the Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol in Telfs, the Löwen-Hotel Schruns and the hotel The Dunloe in Killarney. In her birthplace Memmingen, the Liebherr Group runs the Hotel Falken.^[6] The Bilderberg Conference was held in Telfer Interalpen Hotel in 1988 and 2015.^[7]

After the death of her father in 1993 and the renunciation of her brothers Hans, Hubert and Markus, she took over the corporation in the legal form of a stock company, together with Willi Liebherr.^[8] The only shareholders are family members of the Liebherr family.^[9][10][11] Isolde Liebherr was vice president of the administrative board of Liebherr-International AG^[12] until 2023, when Stéfanie Wohlfahrt became the new vice president.^[13] Isolde Liebherr remained a member of the administrative board.^[14][2]

• Ambassador of the Peace Bell of the Alpine Area, 2001^[15]
• Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Ireland at Cork, 2012^[16]
• Honorary citizenship of Kirchdorf, 2022^[17]

On the 2018 Forbes list, Isolde and Willi Liebherr ranked 222nd, with approximately US$7.1 billion.^[18] The Liebherr family's assets were estimated at 9.3 billion in 2023 by Bilanz, placing them 19th on a list of the 300 richest people in Switzerland.^[2]