Christine Franken & family

$1.96B

$2.2M (0.1%)

as of 04/20/26

About Christine Franken & family

Christine Franken is one of the three daughters of Horst Sartorius, who passed on a 50% stake in biopharmaceutical firm Sartorius AG after his death in 1998.

er great-grandfather Florenz Sartorius founded the firm in 1870 to make analytical balances to measure small mass in laboratories.

Sartorius AG, which went public in 1990, makes pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment.

Today, the company has around 10,600 employees and annual revenue exceeding $2.5 billion.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Germany

Source of wealth

Biopharmaceuticals

Residence

Bovenden, Germany

Birth date

01/01/45 (age 81)

Self-made

inherited