After all, Red Bull boss ends up in 51st place this year Dietrich Mateschitz with assets of $27.4 billion (currently €25.1 billion). This makes him by far the richest Austrian. However, his exorbitant fortune is only a good tenth of that of the richest person in the world according to the Forbes list, Tesla owner Elon Musk with 219 billion dollars.
A total of 2,578 dollar billionaires are listed. Austrians find ten on the list. Accordingly, the second richest Austrian is a construction entrepreneur George Stump ranked 288th with $7.9 billion – in 2018 he was 822nd on the list. “Austrian developer and investor Georg Stumpf founded the Stumpf Group in 1994 with a $35,000 loan from his father,” writes Forbes.
This is followed by the third richest Austrian René Benko. The real estate investor has an estimated net worth of $5.4 billion and ranks 490th worldwide. A year ago it was ranked 496th, but in 2020 and 2019 it was still around 361st and 365th respectively. That was it with the top 500 for Austrians.
World ranking 552 is followed by Novomatic founders and owners John Graf with 5 billion dollars. Its previous high was 181st place in 2019. A few hundred billionaires behind it comes Reeder Helmut Sohmen with 3.9 billion dollars (774th place).
The department store heiress’ $3 billion Heidi Horten On the other hand, they are not even enough for the world’s top 1,000. She ranks 1,012. But that’s enough for the operation of a huge luxury yacht called Carinthia VII – and it’s the 45th longest in the world. Ex aequo in rank 1,012 is the investor Michael Tojner (Varta, Montana Tech Components).
With 1.9 billion dollars L’occitane boss is found Reinold Geiger 1,579 worldwide, according to Forbes (see: https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/). Andritz co-owner Wolfgang Leitner is still among the 1,645 richest people on earth with 1.8 billion dollars. Again ex aequo in place number 2,324 Ulrich Mommert and family (ZKW) as well as KTM owners Stephen Pierer – the net worth of each is $1.2 billion.
Bill Gates in fourth place
Pierer was already in the top 2,000 in 2018, but this year he climbed up a bit compared to the previous year. Mateschitz was already 37th in 2018, but 51st place has been a high again since 2019, because he recently occupied places between 53 and 57.
The second richest person in the world is Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with $171 billion. The richest European, Bernard Aurnault and his family (LVHM), came in third with 158 billion. Fourth is the once richest man on earth, Microsoft founder Bill Gates with 129 billion dollars.
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