Dietmar Hopp & family

$6.38B

$22.5M (-0.4%)

as of 03/13/26

About Dietmar Hopp & family

Dietmar Hopp left IBM with four colleagues in 1972 to launch German enterprise software company SAP (Systems, Applications, Products).

He served as co-CEO from 1988, the year SAP went public, to 1998 and then as chairman of the supervisory board until 2003.

In 1996, he transferred most of his SAP shares to a charitable foundation.

That entity, Dietmar Hopp Stiftung, supports sports, medicine, education and social programs, and has distributed around $1 billion since its start.

Hopp and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are investors in CureVac, a German developer of vaccines for a range of diseases including Covid-19.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Germany

Source of wealth

Software

Residence

Walldorf, Germany

Marital status

Married

Birth date

04/26/40 (age 85)

Number of children

Education

Master of Science, University of Karlsruhe

Self-made

self-made