These are the richest German founders

Manager Magazin selected the richest Germans - and the list also included some tech founders. We present the five who have hoarded the most wealth.

In the past, it was often entrepreneurial families or old clans that appeared in the business magazine's rankings. Today, some founders are also included. We have compiled the top 5 for you.

1st place: Martin Klenk, Bastian Nominacher, Alexander Rinke (Celonis)

The Manager Magazine estimates the trio's assets at 5.5 billion euros. Their start-up Celonis was valued at 13 billion euros a few months ago. The fortune is therefore the result of the founders' company shares. Celonis has been offering B2B process optimization software since 2011, for example to detect errors in supply chains at an early stage.

2nd place: Tobias Lütke (Shopify)

The founder of Shopify, Tobias Lütke, is listed in Manager Magazin with 2.6 billion euros. He founded the start-up with a modular solution for online retailers in 2006 and still holds shares worth billions today. Shopify is worth almost 40 billion euros on the stock exchange. Lütke founded the company in Canada, not Germany, as the Koblenz native emigrated to the North American country 20 years ago.

3rd place: Julian Teickee and Dario Fazlic (Wefox)

Together, Julian Teicke and Dario Fazlic have assets of around 600 million euros. They founded the digital insurance start-up Wefox in 2014, which is now valued at 4.5 billion euros. The third founder and CFO Fabian Wesemann is not listed in the ranking.

4th place: Hakan Koc and Christian Bertermann (Auto1)

Auto1 founders Hakan Koc and Christian Bertermann are also valued at around 600 million euros. They floated their used car portal, founded in 2012, on the stock market just last year. Since then, it has lost a lot of value and is now worth one and a half billion euros. Bertermann is now the sole CEO. Koc left the company at the beginning of 2022.

5th place: Jochen Engert, Daniel Krauss and André Schwämmlein (Flix)

Jochen Engert, Daniel Krauss and André Schwämmlein have assets of around 500 million euros. The three founded Flix eleven years ago and have been trying to secure a monopoly position on the Europe-wide long-distance coach market ever since. They have also entered into competition with Deutsche Bahn in rail transport with the Flixtrain service. The company is now valued at 2.7 billion euros. Investors have so far invested more than one billion.