Dirk Rossmann & family
$5.7B
Born
Sep 07, 1946
Age
79
Source of Wealth
Drugstores
Residence
Lower-Saxony,
Citizenship
Germany
Marital Status
Married
Children
2
Education
- The eponymous company Dirk Rossmann founded at age 25 is now Germany's second-largest drugstore chain, with annual revenues of around $13 billion.
- In 1972, he opened Germany's first self-service drugstore in Hannover just as price deregulation of pharmacy products was beginning.
- Rossmann has made numerous private equity investments and owns a stake in the German Bundesliga soccer club Hannover 96.
- He is a bestselling author. He published an autobiography in 2018, a novel, The Ninth Arm of the Octopus, in 2020, and its sequel, The Wrath of the Octopus, in 2021.
- His German Foundation for World Population focuses on sex education and family planning, primarily in East Africa.
- In September 2021, Dirk Rossmann handed over operational duties of the group to his younger son, Raoul. His older son, Daniel, also has a managerial role in the grou
- A proponent of sustainability, Rossmann in 2020 send the book We are the Weather to all members of the Bundestag and the boards of all Dax and M-Dax companies.
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