He inherited his wealth from his father, Curt Engelhorn Sr., who was the chairman of BASF from 1967 to 1995.
Curt Engelhorn is a German businessman with a net worth of $4 billion. He is the great-grandson of Friedrich Engelhorn, the founder of German chemical company BASF, and inherited his wealth from his father, Curt Engelhorn Sr., who was the chairman of BASF from 1967 to 1995.
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💰Curt Engelhorn Net worth: $4 Billion
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Curt made his name as a head of pharmaceutical companies Boehringer Manheim and DePuy. He run both entities for 36 years, and in 1997 he sold them to Roche for $11 billion. Reportedly, Engelhorn made $4.4 billion on the deal. Apart from the pharmaceutical business, Engelhorn is the sponsor of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg, funding it with more than $400,000 per year. He is also supporter of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim. Nowadays, Engelhorn and his wife own a chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland, a ranch on the Costa Brava in Spain, and a villa on the Cote D'Azur in France.