Dirk Rossmann & family
$4.51B
$76M (1.7%)
as of 04/23/25
About Dirk Rossmann & family
The eponymous company Dirk Rossmann founded at age 25 is now Germany's second-largest drugstore chain, with annual revenues of around $13 billion.
In 1972, he opened Germany's first self-service drugstore in Hannover just as price deregulation of pharmacy products was beginning.
Rossmann has made numerous private equity investments and owns a stake in the German Bundesliga soccer club Hannover 96.
He is a bestselling author. He published an autobiography in 2018, a novel, The Ninth Arm of the Octopus, in 2020, and its sequel, The Wrath of the Octopus, in 2021.
His German Foundation for World Population focuses on sex education and family planning, primarily in East Africa.
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GermanySource of wealth
DrugstoresResidence
Lower-Saxony, GermanyMarital status
MarriedBirth date
09/07/46 (age 78)Number of children
2Self-made
self-madeDirk Rossmann & family’s fortune is worth
75K
troy ounces of gold
69K
median U.S. household
45K
median U.S. income
0.09%
U.S. credit card volume
0.018%
GDP of the United States
0.013%
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A proponent of sustainability, Rossmann in 2020 send the book We are the Weather to all members of the Bundestag and the boards of all Dax and M-Dax companies.
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