Bernhard Braun-Luedicke
Melsungen, Germany
Germany
medical technology
$1,200,000,000
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#1717 Billionaires 2019
Bernhard Braun-Luedicke owns 12% of the medical device company B. Braun Melsungen, which began in 1839 as a small pharmacy that sold herbal remedies.His mother's cousin Ludwig Georg Braun took the reins in 1977, when the company had just $24 million in annual sales (now around $8 billion).Today, with 60,000 employees globally, B. Braun manufactures products ranging from infusion and injection solutions to surgical instruments.
Bernhard is a sixth-generation family member, and his mother Barbara is a member of the company's supervisory board. B. Braun has been operating in Africa for more than 60 years, and now has subsidiaries in Zambia, Algeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya.
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