Susanne Klatten is the richest woman in Germany, with an estimated net worth of over $26 billion as of 2024-2025. As a major shareholder in BMW and the owner of the pharmaceutical company Altana, she is one of the wealthiest people in Germany, often ranking alongside her brother Stefan Quandt in wealth.
On her father's death she inherited his 50.1% stake in pharmaceutical and chemicals manufacturer Altana. She sits on Altana's supervisory board and helped transform it into a world-class corporation in the German DAX list of 30 top companies.
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers. Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (French: [fʁɑ̃swaz bɛtɑ̃kuʁ mɛjɛʁs]; born 10 July 1953) is a French entrepreneur, philanthropist, writer, billionaire heiress. She is the only child of Liliane Bettencourt and the granddaughter of Eugène Schueller, founder of L'Oréal.
Susanne Klatten owns about 19% of automaker BMW; her brother, Stefan Quandt, owns nearly 24%. Their late mother, Johanna, was the third wife of legendary industrialist Herbert Quandt, who guided BMW to preeminence in the luxury market.
As of December 2025, six music artists have reached the billionaire status on Forbes reports: Jay-Z leading the list with $2.5 billion, Taylor Swift—the richest female musician—and then Rihanna, the first female artist to become a billionaire.
According to GDP per capita, Wolfsburg tops the list of Germany's richest cities, followed by Ingolstadt and Erlangen. See the full ranking of the 10 wealthiest cities. https://www.worldatlas.com/gdp/the-10-richest -cities-in-germany.
No single group holds exactly 90% of the world's wealth, but extreme concentration exists, with the top 10% of the world's population owning the vast majority, around 75-85% of global wealth, leaving the bottom 90% with a small fraction, while the richest 1% owns a huge chunk of that, sometimes as much as the bottom 90% or more combined, according to reports from the World Inequality Database and Oxfam.
