Rank #938
Julia Thiele-Schuerhoff & family
Net worth $4.5B
Brakes, investments · Germany
- Born
- Jan 01, 1972
- Age
- 54
- Source
- Brakes, investments
- Residence
- Munich
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Julia Thiele-Schuerhoff inherited a portion of the fortune that her late father, Heinz Hermann Thiele, built up, including a stake in vehicle braking systems maker Knorr-Bremse AG.
- Her father joined Knorr-Bremse's legal department in the late 1960s and took over control in the mid-1980s.
- He withdrew from operational duties in 2007, chaired the supervisory board, was named honorary chairman in 2016, and took the company public in 2018.
- When he died in February 2021, at age 79, Heinz Hermann also owned 50% of railroad equipment maker Vossloh and 12.4% of German airline Lufthansa.
- Julia Thiele-Schuerhoff serves on Knorr-Bremse's supervisory board and runs an affiliated charity organization, Knorr-Bremse Global Care.
- She is cofounder of Knorr-Bremse Global Care, established in 2005 following the devastating tsunami in Southeast Asia.
- Operating worldwide, it supports projects run by partner organizations in education, emergency relief and water, sanitation and hygiene.
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