Susanne Hanna Ursula Klatten | johanna Quandt

Net worth: $27.2 billion

German businesswoman Susanne Hanna Ursula Klatten, who has a net worth of $27.2 billion, is the daughter of Johanna Quandt, the third wife of legendary industrialist Herbert Quandt. Herbert helped Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) in becoming one of the world’s largest manufacturers of luxury vehicles. Klatten owns 19.2 percent of BMW and is known as the wealthiest woman in Germany and one of the richest people globally. Her brother, Stefan Quandt, owns 23.7 percent. Apart from the BMW, the Quandt family also has different family office investment vehicles, the HQ Trust.

Klatten married Jan Klatten in 1990. She’s currently residing in Munich with her husband and children. Klatten, an economist with an M.B.A., helped transform her grandfather’s Altana AG into a world-class pharmaceutical/specialty chemical corporation. She is also the deputy chairman and sole owner of Altana, which pulls in more than $2.5 billion in annual sales. Klatten is investing through the SKion GmbH, a company that invests in companies with revenues between €0.3-2.5 billion, mainly in services, renewables, industry, MedTech, optics, and diagnostics companies.