Reinhold Wuerth’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Reinhold Wuerth is a German businessman and art collector who has a net worth of $11.4 billion as of April 2019. In 1949, when he was 14, he entered his father’s wholesale screw business as the company’s second employee and first apprentice. At the age of 19, he took over the business and honed a competitive advantage by delivering goods directly to customers on construction sites and in mechanical shops. It was his way of developing it into Adolf Wuerth Group, a company that specializes on the manufacturing of fasteners but it also has interests in a solar energy firm and bank. Today, Wuerth Group has sales of over $14 billion as it supplies assembly and fastening materials for the automotive, construction and engineering trades.
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