Sohmen Helmut

$7.18B

as of 10/04/24

About Sohmen Helmut

Helmut Sohmen was chairman of the shipping giant BW Group for 28 years, before he stepped down and handed the reins to son Andreas in 2014.

The Austrian citizen has lived in Hong Kong for decades and is married to Anna Pui Hing Pao, the eldest daughter of the late shipping tycoon Y.K. Pao.

He supports a graduate scholarship program for Chinese lawyers studying at his alma mater, Southern Methodist University in Texas.

His billionaire brother-in-law, Peter Woo, controls Wheelock & Co., a Hong Kong-based real estate firm.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Austria

Source of wealth

Shipping

Residence

Hong Kong

Birth date

12/10/39 (age 84)

Sohmen Helmut’s fortune is worth

120K

troy ounces of gold

110K

median U.S. household

72K

median U.S. income

0.144%

U.S. credit card volume

0.029%

GDP of the United States

0.021%

United States debt

Did you know?

Sohmen was part of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1985 to 1988.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

OSLO | BWE-NO

BW Energy

OSLO | BWLPG-NO

BW LPG Ltd.

OSLO | BWO-NO

BW Offshore

OSLO | CADLR-NO

Cadeler

NYSE | DHT-US

DHT Holdings

OSLO | BWEK-NO

Epic Gas

OSLO | HAFNI-NO

Hafnia Ltd

NYSE | NVGS-US

Navigator Holdings, Ltd. (transoceanic shippings)