Overview

• Werth’s management confirmed Urban’s unexpected death on Monday at age 80.
• Reports say he collapsed at the couple’s home in Rheinberg from cardiac arrest and could not be revived.
• Werth had just returned from a riding-sport event in Shanghai that she attended with Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff.
• The couple met in 2001 and have a son, Frederick, who was born in 2009.
• Urban’s career included senior roles at Kaufhof and Metro, culminating in his tenure as Karstadt CEO from 2000 to 2004.