2023-06-23 11:01:06
The richest Swiss: Gianluigi Aponte. He and his sister are each worth around $31.2 billion.
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher’s fortune is estimated at 6.7 billion. She has been a national councilor for the SVP since 2015.
Dona Bertarelli was the fastest woman to circumnavigate the world. Her net worth is around $5 billion. Here she is in 2011.
Has an estimated fortune of 4.1 billion dollars: Peter Spuhler.
The richest Swiss
The richest Swiss: Gianluigi Aponte. He and his sister are each worth around $31.2 billion.
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher’s fortune is estimated at 6.7 billion. She has been a national councilor for the SVP since 2015.
Dona Bertarelli was the fastest woman to circumnavigate the world. Her net worth is around $5 billion. Here she is in 2011.
Has an estimated fortune of 4.1 billion dollars: Peter Spuhler.
In order to make it onto the “Forbes” list of the richest Swiss people, it pays to inherit. This shows the current list of the business magazine.
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Who are the richest people in Switzerland? The Forbes magazine has published a list of 16 names. Gianluigi Aponte and Rafaela Aponte-Diamant are said to be the richest by far. Their assets are estimated at around $31.2 billion each. And, as always, at the forefront when it comes to a lot of money: the members of the Blocher family.
Who are the richest in Switzerland? The Forbes magazine has published an up-to-date list of 16 names.
Markus Blocher
Assets: around $3.4 billion
Markus Blocher started his career at EMS-Chemie. He sold the shares he inherited from his father, the SVP politician Christoph Blocher. Blocher took over Dottikon, the spin-off from EMS-Chemie.
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus (and family)
Assets: around $3.5 billion
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus is the chair and majority owner of soft commodities giant Louis-Dreyfus. In 2009, her husband Robert Louis-Dreyfus died of leukemia. He left her 69.7 percent of the 167-year-old company. In 2016, she sold the majority to the football club Olympique Marseille.
Peter Spuhler
Assets: around $4.1 billion
Peter Spuhler made a fortune by buying up wagon manufacturers in Eastern Europe. He is CEO ad interim and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Stadler Rail. In 2019 he took Stadler Rail public.
Rudolph Mag
Assets: around $4.9 billion
Rudolf Maag began his career at Sandoz AG. Later worked for the dental giant Straumann. There he bought up the medical equipment division in 1990. In 1999 he merged Stratec with the medical device manufacturer Synthes. He later sold 15% of it to Johnson & Johnson.
Thomas Straumann
Assets: around $5 billion
Thomas Straumann owns 17 percent of the world’s largest manufacturer of dental implants (Straumann Holding). He also founded Medartis in 1997. He is still Vice President of this company today.
Martin Haefner
Assets: around $5 billion
Martin Haefner made his fortune from a previous stake in IT management software maker CA Technologies. In 2018 the company was acquired by Broadcom. In 2012, he inherited his father’s shares in CA Technologies (who, by the way, died at the age of 101, becoming the world’s oldest billionaire). In addition, Martin Haefner inherited shares from the car dealer AMAG.
Dona Bertarelli
Assets: around $5 billion
In 2013, Dona Bertarelli’s family sold the biotech company Serono for more than $13 billion. Together with her brother, she chairs the Bertarelli Foundation. This campaigns for the protection of the seas. She is also the woman who sailed the fastest around the world.
Hansjörg Wyss
Assets: around $5.1 billion
Hansjörg Wyss founded the medical device manufacturer Synths – and sold the company to Johnson & Johnson in 2012 for a mere $20.2 billion. He also owns shares in public biotech companies Novo Cure and Molecular Partners. Hansjörg Wyss also has a foundation that has total assets of more than two billion dollars.
Michael Pieper
Assets: around $5.4 billion
Thanks to his Artemis Group, Michael Pieper is on the “Forbes” list. It in turn controls Frank Group. This manufactures kitchen sinks and other industrial kitchen appliances. Piper is CEO and sole proprietor of the group, which was founded in Rorschach in 1911.
Thomas Schmidheiny
Assets: around $5.7 billion
Thomas Shmidheiny made his fortune thanks to the cement and building materials giant Lafarge Holcim – the company was born in 2014 from a vision. Thomas Shmidheiny’s great-uncle founded the company in 1912. In 1984 the inheritance of Thomas’ father Max was divided. Thomas Schmidheiny inherited the cement and concrete supplier Holcim, his brother Stephan got the concrete supplier Eternit.
Rachel Blocher
Assets: around $6.6 billion
Rahel Blocher is not actively involved in the business of EMS-Chemie. She runs her father’s investment firm Robinvest. She is also on the board of the Swiss Music Island Rheinau Foundation.
Magdalena Martullo Blocher
Assets: around $6.7 billion
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher also owes her fortune to EMS-Chemie, the Swiss polymer and chemical giant. In 2004 she took over the management of the company when her father moved to the Federal Council. He sold his shares to his four children. Previously, Magdalena Martullo-Blocher held management positions at Johnson & Johnson and Rivella. She has been a national councilor for the SVP since 2015.
Guillaume Pousaz
Assets: around $7.2 billion
In 2012, Guillaume Pousaz founded checkout.com. In 2022, his company was valued at $40 billion. That number was then reduced to 11 billion. checkout.com wants to fix problems with online payment processing.
Ivan Glasenberg
Assets: around 9 billion dollars
Ivan Glasenberg owns the largest stake in Glencore. Until 2021 he was CEO of the largest commodity trader in the world.
Ernesto Bertarelli
Assets: around $9.4 billion
Billions through heirs: Ernesto Bertarelli inherited the biotech giant Serono (maker of the multiple sclerosis drug Rebif). In 1998 he got the inheritance and finally sold it in 2007.
Gianluigi Aponte and Rafaela Aponte-Diamant
Assets: around $31.2 billion each
By far, Gianluigi Aponte and Rafaela Aponte-Diamant are the richest people on the Forbes list. They each own 50 percent of MSC – the largest shipping company in the world.
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