Rank #2032
Bernhard Braun-Luedicke
Net worth $2.1B
Medical technology · Germany
- Born
- Jan 01, 1977
- Age
- 49
- Source
- Medical technology
- Residence
- Melsungen
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Bernhard Braun-Luedicke owns 12% of the medical device company B. Braun Melsungen, which began in 1839 as a small pharmacy that sold herbal remedies.
- His mother's cousin Ludwig Georg Braun took the reins in 1977, when the company had just $24 million in annual sales (now around $8 billion).
- Today, with more than 64,000 employees globally, B. Braun manufactures products ranging from infusion and injection solutions to surgical instruments.
- Bernhard is a sixth-generation family member and his mother, Barbara, is a member of the company's supervisory board.
- B. Braun has been operating in Africa for more than 60 years, and now has subsidiaries in Zambia, Algeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya.