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Master of a lot of money: Peter Harf heads JAB Holding, which manages the Reimann family's investments
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With an estimated fortune of 32 billion euros, the Reimann family is the richest in Germany according to calculations by manager magazin.
The Reimanns' fortune had melted by three billion euros within a year, the magazine reported on Thursday.
The
Reimanns
hold majority stakes in the fashion and cosmetics group Coty and the coffee producer Jacobs Douwe Egberts.
Coty has been struggling with weak sales and red numbers for several years.
In second place in the ranking of the richest Germans is Lidl founder Dieter
Schwarz
with a fortune of 30 billion euros.
The siblings Susanne
Klatten came
third
and Stefan
Quandt
, who own almost half of BMW shares.
As a result of the Corona crisis, your assets have fallen by 1.5 billion euros to 25 billion euros.
The fortunes mentioned are estimates.
The basis for valuation is research in archives and registers as well as with asset managers, lawyers, bank managers and the wealthy themselves. The share assets were valued at the closing prices on September 15.
A list of the "Welt am Sonntag" published on September 20 came to a different conclusion.
Accordingly, Lidl founder Schwarz is the richest German with an estimated fortune of 41.8 billion euros.
The Reimann family follows in second place with 21.45 billion euros.
According to the paper, this ranking list is also an estimate based on a comparable basis: registers, archive and document collections, asset managers, financial experts, lawyers and representatives of the families examined.
Share capital (as of September 15, 2020), companies (according to sales, profitability, market position), investments, real estate, but also art collections and family foundations were evaluated.
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