Lillian von Kauffmann

Lillian von Kauffmann (; 19202016) was a successful Danish businesswoman and property owner. She became outstandingly rich thanks to the shares in De Danske Cichoriefabriker she inherited from her father and her acquisition of the companies her sister had managed until her early death. Married three times, her third husband Ernst von Kauffmann supported her business interests until his death in 1974. She is remembered for her sometime ownership of the Basnæs Estate and of Copenhagen's Palace Hotel. Von Kauffmann later bought luxury hotels in Vevey, Switzerland, where she died in the Hotel des Trois Couronnes in December 2016.

Biography Born in Nice, France, on 18 December 1920, Elly Lillian Carl Salomonsen was the daughter of the businessman Carl Harry Otto Salomonsen (1876–1942) and his wife Paula Frederikke née Weimann. She married three times, first in December 1942 with the stockbroker Helge Bendix until 1948 when the marriage was dissolved, second in June 1948 with the engineer and business executive Sigurd Gjerdsøe who died in a traffic accident in 1949, and third in July 1950 with the bank director Ernst von Kauffmann (1887–1974).