Heidi Horten

$2.86B

as of 06/12/22

About Heidi Horten

Heidi Horten inherited a fortune from her husband, Helmut Horten, who founded the German department store Horten AG in 1936.

She met the much older Horten in a bar in Austria in 1959, when she was 19.

When he died in 1987, he left Horten a $1 billion fortune that has since grown.

She sits on the board of Helmut Horten Stiftung, a charitable foundation supporting medical research and health care institutions.

Horten is opening her own private museum next to Vienna's Burggarten in 2022, displaying parts of her collection.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Austria

Source of wealth

retail

Birth date

02/13/41

Self-made

inherited

Heidi Horten’s fortune is worth

48K

troy ounces of gold

44K

median U.S. household

29K

median U.S. income

0.057%

U.S. credit card volume

0.011%

GDP of the United States

0.008%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

In 2008 Horten sold a 35.5 carat diamond that was once a Bavarian crown jewel for $24 million.