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Who earns the most?
Money is known to rule the world, but who has the most in Germany? The business magazine "BILANZ" has now published a list of the super-rich.
The new number one among the richest Germans are the owners of Schaeffler AG : Maria-Elisabeth (73), the widow of company founder Georg Schaeffler and her son Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Schaeffler (49) from Herzogenaurach in Bavaria. Who else deserves much, you can see here:
1. Maria-Elisabeth and Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Schaeffler (Schaeffler, among others), assets: 21.5 billion euros
2. Family Albrecht and Heister (Aldi South), 18 billion euros
3. Family Theo Albrecht junior (Aldi Nord), 16 billion euros
4. Dieter Schwarz (Schwarz group, including Lidl), 15 billion euros
5. Family Reimann (ua Reckitt Benckiser), 14 billion euros
6. Boehringer family (Boehringer Ingelheim), 12 billion euros
6. Baumbach family (Boehringer Ingelheim), 12 billion euros
8th Susanne Klatten (including BMW), 11 billion euros
9th Stefan Quandt (including BMW), 8.2 billion euros
10. Family Würth ("Screw King" Würth), 8.1 billion euros
11. Oetker family (Oetker) 7.6 billion euros
12. Johanna Quandt (BMW), 7.5 billion euros
12. Hasso Plattner (SAP), 7.5 billion euros
14. Aloys Wobben (Enercon), 7.2 billion euros
15. Liebherr family (Liebherr), 6.7 billion euros
16. Dietmar Hopp (SAP), 6.6 billion euros
17. Family Michael Otto (Otto Group), 6.5 billion euros
18. Klaus-Michael Kühne (ua Kühne and Nagel), 6.4 billion euros
19. Braun family (B. Braun), 6.2 billion euros
20. Klaus Tschira (SAP), 6.1 billion euros
Lucky that money is not everything in life and there are things you can not buy!
