Overview
- Manager Magazin’s 2026 list, reported by Business Insider, places the Boehringer Ingelheim shareholder family first with an estimated €66.7 billion after courts found the ranking lawful.
- Dieter Schwarz is listed second with €53.7 billion, leaving him about €13 billion behind the newly counted family.
- Manager Magazin builds its rankings from company stakes, real estate, stocks and art and relies on archive research and interviews so valuations for private firms are estimates rather than market prices.
- Boehringer Ingelheim is a family-owned pharma group founded in 1885 that is led by Hubertus von Baumbach as chairman of the shareholders’ committee and Shashank Deshpande as executive chair and reports about 53,000 employees.
- The change highlights how legal rulings and valuation methods can reorder fortunes on public lists and coincides with Manager Magazin reporting a record 257 billionaires among Germany’s 500 richest, which may increase scrutiny on private family wealth and company transparency.