Karin Sartorius-Herbst

$2.25B
as of 10/04/24

About Karin Sartorius-Herbst

Karin Sartorius-Herbst inherited a stake in Sartorius AG, which makes pharmaceutical an laboratory equipment.

Her great-grandfather Florenz Sartorius founded what become Sartorius AG in 1870 to make analytical balances to measure small mass in laboratories.

Her father, Horst Sartorius, died in 1998 and left a 50% stake to his daughters Karin, Christine Franken and Ulrike Baro.

An executor oversees their inheritance until 2028.

Today, the company has more than 15,000 employees and annual revenue exceeding $5 billion. It went public in 1990.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Germany

Source of wealth

Biopharmaceuticals

Residence

Northeim, Germany

Self-made

inherited

Karin Sartorius-Herbst’s fortune is worth

38K

troy ounces of gold

35K

median U.S. household

23K

median U.S. income

0.045%

U.S. credit card volume

0.009%

GDP of the United States

0.007%

United States debt

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Did you know?

She studied economics at the University of Goettingen.

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Financial assets

XETRA | SRT3-DE

Sartorius AG

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