
Özlem Türeci, Uğur Şahin and Hakan Koç were also included in Manager Magazin's 2026 richest people list.
BioNTech founders Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin and Auto1 founder Hakan Koç were included in the 2026 list of Germany's richest people published by Manager Magazin.
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Manager Magazine regularly publishes Germany's richest people, families and companies every year.
Manager Magazin, one of Germany's leading economic magazines, published the list of Germany's 500 richest individuals, families and companies for 2026. Three names of Turkish origin were also included in the list.
Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin, the founders of BioNTech, known worldwide for their development of the coronavirus vaccine, were ranked 71st on the list with their fortune of 3 billion 800 million Euros.
The couple was on the list last year with a fortune of 4 billion Euros. Thus, the wealth of Türeci and Şahin decreased by approximately 200 million Euros in one year.
TÜRECİ AND ŞAHİN WILL ESTABLISH A NEW COMPANY
It was stated that Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin decided to take over BioNTech this year and establish a new company called Arife.
HAKAN KOÇ IS ALSO ON THE LIST
Another name of Turkish origin on the list was Hakan Koç.
Koç, the founder of the Berlin-based second-hand car sales site Auto1, has a fortune of 1.2 billion Euros with his business partner Christian Bertermann. The duo ranked 200th on the list of Germany's richest people.
THE BOEHRINGER FAMILY IS IN FIRST PLACE
The first place in Manager Magazine's 2026 list was taken by the Boehringer family, owner of the Boehringer Ingelheim pharmaceutical company, with a fortune of 66.7 billion Euros.
Lidl owner Dieter Schwarz came in second place with a fortune of 53.7 billion Euros, while the Merck family took the third place with a fortune of 50.7 billion Euros.
In fourth place were BMW shareholders Susanne Klatten and Stefan Quandt, while in fifth place were the Albrecht and Heister families, owners of the Aldi supermarket chain, with a total wealth of 29 billion Euros.
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