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TH E WORLD’ S BILLIONA IR E S

WEALTH TOP SECTORS
GerMany 12% FASHION & RETAIL 32
ORIGIN
17
72%
MANUFACTURING
17
16% HEALTH CARE
GDP: $3.7 TRIL
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PoPulation: 83 MIL INHERITED & GROWING TECHNOLOGY
INHERITED
Billionaires: 123 (+9 VS. 2017) SELF-MADE 10
total net worth: $578.7 BIL (+$110.9 BIL VS. 2017) AUTOMOTIVE
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Beate Heister & sYLT
Karl Albrecht Jr. 
$29.8 BIL #27 suPermarkets
Kiel

Georg Schaeffler 

$25.3 BIL #31 auto Parts
Susanne Klatten 
$25 BIL #32 Bmw,
Pharmaceuticals
Stefan Quandt 
$22 BIL #42 Bmw
bReMen
Dieter Schwarz 
$20.9 BIL #46 retail AuRiCh hAMbuRg
JULIA STOSCHEK
Theo Albrecht Jr. & family 
$20.2 BIL #48 alDi, traDer Joe’s esPelKAMP
Newsmaker: Stoschek has assem-
Klaus-Michael Kuehne  bled a collection of contemporary loWeR sAXonY
$15.3 BIL #91 shiPPinG art that she exhibits in galleries in
Reinhold Wuerth & family  Düsseldorf and Berlin; her collection
$13.6 BIL #105 fasteners has attracted more than 100,000
Heinz Hermann Thiele visitors over the past decade. Her detMold bRunsWiCK
& family  latest exhibition in Berlin features bieleFeld beRlin
$12.9 BIL #113 Brakes work from American artist Arthur stRAelen
Hasso Plattner & family  Jafa that centers on identity and gueteRsloh
$12.7 BIL #116 software race. Her fortune lies in her
Alexander Otto ★ stake in German RhedA-WiedenbRueCK dudeRstAdt
$11.8 BIL #127 real estate car-parts compa- duisbuRg RB Leipzig
ny Brose, founded Dietrich Mateschitz
Udo & Harald Tschira 
$11.7 BIL #130 software by her grandfather MulheiM An deR RuhR leiPZig
Max Brose and now
Michael Otto & family  AllendoRF MARbuRg
$11 BIL #138 retail, real estate run by her father, DresDen
Michael Stoschek. KReFeld Melsungen
Walter P.J. Droege  dusseldoRF
$10.3 BIL #146 consultinG
Dietmar Hopp & family  hAigeR
$10.2 BIL #147 software Cologne Koenigstein
August von Finck  beRgish-glAdbACh gRebenhAin
$9.2 BIL #167 investments bAd hoMbuRg
Andreas von Bechtolsheim
& family  Oliver samwer
$6.8 BIL #242 GooGle MontAbAuR RottendoRF
Newsmaker: it’s
Ludwig Merckle  the comeback of the FRAnKFuRt heRZogenAuRACh
$6.7 BIL #248 Pharmaceuticals dARMstAdt
copycats as oliver neustAdt An deR
Aloys Wobben  and his brothers WAldnAAb
$6.6 BIL #251 winD turBines WeinheiM
marc and alexander RHEINGAU neCKARsulM nuReMbeRg
Erivan Haub & family  return to the wealth st. Wendel
$6.4 BIL #265 retail heidelbeRg
ranks after a two-
Guenther Fielmann & fam  year hiatus, thanks KuenZelsAu
$6.3 BIL #274 oPtometry mostly to a stronger

Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler  euro. shares of rock- WAlldoRF bRuChsAl gAildoRF
$6.3 BIL #274 auto Parts et internet, the investment sChWiebeRdingen

Ralph Dommermuth  firm that oliver runs, are also up Winnenden lAndshut

$5.9 BIL #296 slightly. Best known for creating knockoffs KARlsRuhe
internet service ProviDer of american tech firms, rocket internet has

Wolfgang Marguerre  more than 100 companies in its portfolio, in- stuttgARt
$5.9 BIL #296 cluding online food-ordering firm Delivery ulM eHC ReD BULL MUNCHeN

Dietrich Mateschitz
Pharmaceuticals hero, which went public in June. AugsbuRg
Martin Viessmann & family 
$5.7 BIL #315 AsChAu
heatinG equiPment ohningen PAssAu
lAndsbuRg
Friede Springer  AM leCh MuniCh
$5.6 BIL #321 PuBlishinG RosenheiM
stARnbeRg
Michael Herz & family 
$5.4 BIL #351 coffee tegeRnsee
Wolfgang Herz & family 
$5.4 BIL #351 coffee
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