Hope to wonder for missing billionaire

zermatt - Rescue workers in the Swiss Alps have unsuccessfully sought all possible places where CEO Karl-Erivan Haub of the German Tengelmann group could lie. They now hope that the German billionaire will be found by someone by chance. Only when the snow has melted can a targeted search be carried out again, reports the police of the Valais canton.

Rescue services no longer speak of a rescue operation, but of a salvage operation where less risk is taken. His family has also abandoned the hope that Haub is still alive. The top man disappeared last Saturday during a ski tour on the Klein Matterhorn. He did not return to his hotel in Zermatt that afternoon.

Haub has been at the helm at Tengelmann since 2000, owner of, among other things, German hardware stores. He is one of the richest people in Germany.