Editing Hans Rausing

{{Short description|Swedish industrialist and philanthropist (1926–2019)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name        = Hans Rausing
| image       = Rausing256 148782a.jpg
| alt         = 
| caption     = Hans Rausing with Tetra Brik, 1963
| birth_name  = 
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1926|3|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Gothenburg]], Sweden
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|2019|08|30|1926|03|25|df=y}}
| death_place = London, England
| nationality = Swedish
| other_names = 
| occupation  = Businessman, philanthropist
| known_for   = [[Tetra Pak]]
| education   = 
| alma_mater  = [[Lund University]]
| spouse      = [[Märit Rausing]]
| children    = [[Lisbet Rausing|Lisbet]], [[Sigrid Rausing|Sigrid]], and [[Hans Kristian Rausing]] 
| parents     = [[Ruben Rausing]]
}}

'''Hans Anders Rausing''', [[Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire|KBE]]<ref name=Forbes /> (25 March 1926 – 30 August 2019) was a Swedish industrialist and philanthropist based in the United Kingdom. He made his fortune from his co-inheritance of [[Tetra Pak]], a company founded by his father [[Ruben Rausing]], and the largest [[food packaging]] company in the world.<ref>Yang Ning, [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2011-06/20/content_12732084.htm "Creating a Benchmark for Recycling Rubbish"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622234353/http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2011-06/20/content_12732084.htm |date=22 June 2013 }}, ''China Daily'', 20 June 2011, retrieved 7 November 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.packagingeurope.com/Packaging-Europe-News/44268/Tetra-Pak-launches-nextgeneration-cheese-production-unit.html "Tetra Pak launches next generation cheese production unit"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924063133/http://www.packagingeurope.com/Packaging-Europe-News/44268/Tetra-Pak-launches-nextgeneration-cheese-production-unit.html |date=24 September 2015}}, ''Packaging Europe News'', 11 November 2011, retrieved 11 November 2011.</ref> In the early 1980s Rausing moved to the United Kingdom to avoid Swedish taxes,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/hans-rausing/ |title = Hans Rausing & family|website = [[Forbes]]}}</ref> in 1995 he sold his share of the company to his brother, [[Gad Rausing|Gad]]. In the ''[[Forbes]]'' world fortune ranking, Rausing was placed at number 83 with an estimated fortune of [[United States dollar|US$]]10 billion in 2011.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/hans-rausing-tetra-pak-swedish-packaging-billionaire-dies-at-93-11798084|title=Hans Rausing: Tetra Pak Swedish packaging billionaire dies aged 93|website=Sky News|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830201657/https://news.sky.com/story/hans-rausing-tetra-pak-swedish-packaging-billionaire-dies-at-93-11798084|archive-date=30 August 2019|url-status=live}} Retrieved 30 August 2019</ref> According to ''Forbes'', he was the second richest Swedish billionaire in 2013. By the time of his death in August 2019, ''Forbes'' estimated the net worth of Rausing and his family to be $12 billion.<ref name=Forbes>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/hans-rausing/|title=Hans Rausing & family|website=Forbes|access-date=29 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330091233/https://www.forbes.com/profile/hans-rausing/|archive-date=30 March 2017|url-status=live}} Retrieved 31 August 2019</ref>

==Early life==
Rausing was born in [[Gothenburg]] in 1926, the second son of industrialist [[Ruben Rausing]] and his wife Elisabeth (née Varenius).<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/maxjedeurpalmgren/2019/08/30/swedish-packaging-billionaire-hans-rausing-dies-at-93/|title=Swedish Packaging Billionaire Hans Rausing Dies At 93|first=Max|last=Jedeur-Palmgren|website=Forbes|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830201853/https://www.forbes.com/sites/maxjedeurpalmgren/2019/08/30/swedish-packaging-billionaire-hans-rausing-dies-at-93/|archive-date=30 August 2019|url-status=live}} Retrieved 30 August 2019</ref> Rausing had two brothers, [[Gad Rausing|Gad]] and Sven.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.va.se/nyheter/2019/08/30/sveriges-nast-rikaste-hans-rausing-ar-dod/|title=Sveriges näst rikaste Hans Rausing är död|website=Veckans affärer|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830185605/https://www.va.se/nyheter/2019/08/30/sveriges-nast-rikaste-hans-rausing-ar-dod/|archive-date=30 August 2019|url-status=live}} Retrieved 30 August 2019</ref>

==Career==
Rausing studied Economics, Statistics and Russian at [[Lund University]], graduating in 1948.<ref>Leander, Lars, ''Tetra Pak. A Vision Becomes Reality. A company history with a difference'', Lund: Tetra Pak International, 1996 ({{ISBN|91-630-4789-6}}), p. 33.</ref> In 1954, Rausing was appointed managing director of Tetra Pak and his brother Gad deputy managing director.<ref name=Leander29>Leander (1996), p. 29.</ref> Rausing became chairman in 1985.<ref name=Leander29 /> He left the company in 1993, and sold his 50% share of the company to Gad in 1995.<ref name=Ingram>Frederick C. Ingram, [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2845700098.html "Tetra Pak International SA"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820172129/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2845700098.html |date=20 August 2016}}, ''International Directory of Company Histories'', 2003. Encyclopedia.com, retrieved 22 July 2016.</ref>

Tetra Pak's success in the 1970s and 1980s has been credited to the leadership of Hans and Gad Rausing, who turned the six-person family business into a multinational company.<ref name=Ingram /> Over the course of his career, Rausing became a specialist in Russian affairs and made many investments in Russia and Ukraine.<ref name="auto1"/> He was responsible for Tetra Pak's Russian market, and negotiated the first Tetra Pak machine export to the Soviet Union in 1959, eventually making Tetra Pak the largest foreign employer in Russia.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4779/is_12/ai_n28975205/pg_3/?tag=content;col1 Hans Rausing] European Business Forum, retrieved 4 November 2011.</ref>

==Patronage==
Hans Rausing and his wife Märit donated large sums to charities and research in the UK and Sweden, among others to large medical research projects at [[Karolinska Institutet]] and [[Lund University]].<ref>[http://www.friendsofki.com/node/66 Hans and Märit Rausing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331150821/http://www.friendsofki.com/node/66 |date=31 March 2012 }}, Karolinska Institutet, retrieved 4 November 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www3.lu.se/info/pm/2001/281_pressm.html Hans Rausing Medicine Hedersdoktor] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331150821/http://www3.lu.se/info/pm/2001/281_pressm.html |date=31 March 2012}}, Lund University, retrieved 4 November 2011.</ref> Through the Märit and Hans Rausing Fund, they supported local community projects in their home county of [[Sussex]].<ref>[http://www.sussexgiving.org.uk/how-to-give/donorview.php?id=4 Professor and Mrs Hans Rausing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406203015/http://www.sussexgiving.org.uk/how-to-give/donorview.php?id=4 |date=6 April 2012 }}, Sussex Community Foundation, retrieved 4 November 2011.</ref>

Through her fund [[Arcadia Fund|Arcadia]], Rausing's daughter [[Lisbet Rausing|Lisbet]] is financing the [[Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project]] at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS) at the [[University of London]], the Hans Rausing Scholarship in the History of Science at [[King's College London]], and the Hans Rausing Chair in the History of Science at [[Uppsala University]], which is also hosting an annual Hans Rausing Lecture in the History of Science.<ref>[http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/ The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023093808/http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/ |date=23 October 2011 }}, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, retrieved 7 November 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/historyofscience/graduateprogramme/doctoralprogramme/doctoralfunding/hansrausingscholarships The Hans Rausing Scholarship in History of Science] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217140049/http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/historyofscience/graduateprogramme/doctoralprogramme/doctoralfunding/hansrausingscholarships |date=17 December 2014 }}, Imperial College, retrieved 7 November 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.idehist.uu.se/vethist/index.php/rausinglectures/ The Hans Rausing Lectures] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403062821/http://www.idehist.uu.se/vethist/index.php/rausinglectures/ |date=3 April 2012 }}, Uppsala University, retrieved 7 November 2011.</ref> The [[University of Cambridge]] Department of History and Philosophy of Science hosts an Annual Hans Rausing Lecture.<ref>[http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news/rausing.html Annual Hans Rausing Lecture] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529043323/http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news/rausing.html |date=29 May 2015}}, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.</ref>

==Honours and UK tax status==
Hans Rausing received an honorary doctorate from Lund University.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49530444|title=Tetra Pak billionaire Hans Rausing dies at 93|date=30 August 2019|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830232257/https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49530444|archive-date=30 August 2019|url-status=live|work=BBC News}} Retrieved 30 August 2019</ref> He was a visiting professor at [[Mälardalens Högskola]], Sweden, and honorary professor at the [[University of Dubna]], Russia.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4779/is_12/ai_n28975205/pg_3/?tag=content;col1 Hans Rausing] European Business Forum, retrieved 4 November 2011</ref> He was made an honorary Knight Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (KBE) in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2009-2154/DEP2009-2154.doc|title=Honorary Knighthoods Awarded 1997–2006|access-date=1 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140422054211/http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2009-2154/DEP2009-2154.doc|archive-date=22 April 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> He was an honorary fellow of the [[Isaac Newton Institute]], Cambridge, and in 2011 was made an honorary freeman and liveryman at the [[Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers]], London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newton.ac.uk/about/fellowships/honorary|title=Honorary Fellowship of the Isaac Newton Institute &#124; Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences|website=www.newton.ac.uk|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830185726/https://www.newton.ac.uk/about/fellowships/honorary|archive-date=30 August 2019|url-status=live}} Retrieved 30 August 2019</ref>
An article in the Guardian described how Hans Rausing had taken advantage of the UK's "remittance basis" of taxation to reduce his UK tax exposure while UK resident.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/apr/11/politics.economy] The Guardian,  11 Apr 2002, How the richest man in Britain avoids tax</ref> In 2002, for example, he earned income of around £225M but, according to the report, he incurred UK income tax on only £1M of it, because most of it arose outside the UK and therefore, because he did not "remit" it to the UK, the remittance basis meant he did not incur UK tax on it.

==Personal life==
Hans Rausing and his wife [[Märit Rausing]] had two daughters, [[Lisbet Rausing|Lisbet]] and [[Sigrid Rausing|Sigrid]], and one son, [[Hans Kristian Rausing]].<ref name="auto"/>

From 2001 to 2012, Rausing and his family donated £886,000 to the UK's [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Manning |first1=Sanchez |title=A quarter of the UK's richest people give money to the Conservative Party |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/a-quarter-of-the-uks-richest-people-give-money-to-the-conservative-party-7848933.html |access-date=30 August 2019 |work=The Independent |date=14 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830213837/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/a-quarter-of-the-uks-richest-people-give-money-to-the-conservative-party-7848933.html |archive-date=30 August 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Rausing was a resident of the UK from 1982 until his death.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/rausing-family-values-the-dark-side-of-a-dynasty-808150.html "Rausing family values: the dark side of a dynasty"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331230816/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/rausing-family-values-the-dark-side-of-a-dynasty-808150.html |date=31 March 2017 }}, ''The Independent'', 11 April 2008, retrieved 10 November 2011.</ref> He lived at [[New House, Wadhurst Park|The New House]], [[Wadhurst Park]], [[East Sussex]], until his death on 30 August 2019.<ref>Nick Davies, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/apr/11/nickdavies3 "Playing the System"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927181212/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/apr/11/nickdavies3 |date=27 September 2016 }}, ''The Guardian'', 11 April 2002, retrieved 10 November 2011.</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/hans-rausing-avliden|title=Hans Rausing avliden|newspaper=SVT Nyheter|date=30 August 2019|via=www.svt.se|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830170329/https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/hans-rausing-avliden|archive-date=30 August 2019|url-status=live|last1=Hansson|first1=Anton}}</ref><ref name="auto2"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/ Arcadia Fund]
*[https://archive.today/20121224080547/http://www.sussexgiving.org.uk/how-to-give/donorview.php?id=4&PHPSESSID=730080f494ab23392c52bf772b2a454d Sussex Community Foundation]

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