not want to give up. She lures him into a trap and then threatens to kill them both. Ludwig can be rescued and marries Elisabeth. The couple starts happily into their marriage but Elisabeth gets jealous when it is revealed that Ludwig once had a fling with her best friend Charlie Schneider (Gabriele Metzger) when the two of them were young. Elisabeth fears that Ludwig and Charlie still have too much in common. But she eventually moves past this. As Clarissa von Anstetten (Isa Jank) returns to Düsseldorf, she becomes another threat to Elisabeth's marriage. Clarissa wants to seduce Ludwig to get her company, Ligne Clarisse Lahnstein, back which now is a division of the new-founded Lahnstein Enterprises, the successor of the Lahnstein Holding. It takes Ludwig some time but he eventually sees through Clarissa and apologizes to Elisabeth for thinking she was paranoid where Clarissa is concerned. Ludwig takes a boat trip with his son Hagen and the two go missing. Elisabeth and Hagen's wife Dana Wolf try to hold on to the hope that Hagen and Ludwig could still be alive but Elisabeth eventually makes peace with the sad reality that Ludwig most likely died. After Ludwig is officially declared dead another power struggle within the family occurs. Ansgar and Sebastian fight over the company while Elisabeth again tries to keep the family together. She has a short fling with a young Ben Schöne before starting a dessous line for older women with Charlie. After a year since Ludwig and Hagen went missing, Hagen reappears and has to tell Elisabeth that Ludwig in fact died on a desert island in his arms. Hagen returns with a new will which sees him as the head of the family. Sebastian and Ansgar start scheming against him. Soon Hagen has to leave again for the health of his son Max. The family has to vote for a new head. But the election turns out to be problematic with all three candidates - Sebastian, Ansgar and Rebecca (Jasmin Lord) - have the same number of votes. Hagen wants to end the fight in the family and forges a second will of Ludwig which Hagen writes with his father's blood. Elisabeth becomes the head of the family - and CEO of Lahnstein Enterprises - after Hagen wrote down that he can choose a successor if necessary. All family members are shocked that Elisabeth