Reinhold Wuerth & family
$30.05B
as of 08/10/26
About Reinhold Wuerth & family
Reinhold Wuerth is honorary chairman of the supervisory board of the Wuerth Group, a German hardware manufacturer founded by his father.
Wuerth joined the family's wholesale screw business in 1949, at age 14, as the company's second employee and first apprentice.
Today, with annual sales of over $23 billion, the Wuerth Group has more than 400 companies and 86,000 employees around the world.
Wuerth retired in 1994; his nephew Sebastian Wuerth now serves as chairman of the advisory board of Wuerth Group.
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GermanySource of wealth
FastenersResidence
KuenzelsauMarital status
MarriedBirth date
04/20/35 (age 91)Number of children
3Self-made
self-madeReinhold Wuerth & family’s fortune is worth
501K
troy ounces of gold
462K
median U.S. household
300K
median U.S. income
0.601%
U.S. credit card volume
0.12%
GDP of the United States
0.088%
United States debt
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Did you know?
Wuerth's vast art collection, consisting of more than 20,000 pieces, began with an Emil Nolde watercolor painting acquired in 1972.
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