Rank #2319
Alexander Knauf
Net worth $1.8B
building materials · Germany
- Born
- May 30, 1974
- Age
- 51
- Source
- building materials
- Residence
- Würzburg
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Alexander Knauf is an heir to one of the world's leading producers of building materials and systems, Knauf Gips KG.
- Based in Iphofen, Germany, the company employs more than 35,000 people around the world and has annual revenue of over $11 billion.
- Its product line includes plasterboards, cement boards and insulating materials. Alexander has served as managing director since 2012.
- Knauf Gips dates to 1932, when brothers and mining engineers Alfons and Karl Knauf obtained rights to gypsum deposits in Schengen, Germany.
- Their original gypsum factory, on the Moselle River in the border region of Luxembourg, Germany and France, is still the company's production nucleus.
- Alexander began his professional career with an apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank before joining Knauf Gips.
- The family's Knauf Museum, on the premises of a historical inn built in 1688 on Iphofen's market square, houses a renowned collection or ancient relief art.