Three adopted children of pharmaceutical businessman Erwin Müller demand their obligatory share of the inheritance and are therefore suing the 91-year-old man and his wife Anita. According to the regional court, this is a contract in which the three adult adoptees renounced their obligatory part. The hearing is scheduled for Monday (2:00 p.m.).

Inheritance dispute: adoptees sue pharmaceutical businessman Erwin Müller and his wife

“We attack the contract of renunciation of the obligatory part because we consider it immoral and lacking in form,” explained Maximilian Ott, lawyer for the adoptees. The three adults declined to comment on the case. Lawyer Anton Steiner represents the Müller couple in the case. When asked, he explained that ongoing proceedings were generally not discussed.

According to the company, trained hairdresser Erwin Müller set up his first salon in 1953 in his parents' apartment in Unterfahlheim, Bavaria, which he later moved to Neu-Ulm. In 1966 he came up with the idea of ​​also offering cosmetics and drugstore items in the salon. In 1969, Müller supposedly brought the idea of ​​pharmacies with everyday items and self-service department stores after a tour of Canada and the United States.

In 1973 he finally opened his first pharmacy in Ulm. Today, the pharmacy chain says it has around 35,000 employees and more than 900 branches in Europe.