Nadia Thiele & family
Investments · Munich
Net worth
$10.0B
Today
+$99M+1.01%Past month
−$108M−1.08%As of Nov 11, 2026, 1:50 PM EST
Nadia Thiele inherited her fortune from her late husband, billionaire industrialist Heinz Hermann Thiele, who died in February 2021 at age 79. The biggest piece of her fortune is a stake in brake-system firm Knorr-Bremse AG; her late husband took control of the company in the mid 1980s. Heinz Hermann was named honorary chairman of Knorr-Bremse AG in 2016 and took the company public in 2018. Alongside her step-daughter Julia Thiele-Schuerhoff, Nadia Thiele is a member of Knorr-Bremse Global Care's Executive Board, the company's affiliated charity organization. When he died, Heinz Hermann also owned 50% of railroad equipment maker Vossloh and 12.4% of German airline Lufthansa.
Net worth over time
Principal holdings
4 positions| Company | Industry | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
Knorr-Bremse XETRA: KBX-DE | Finance & Investments | 72.3% | $7.2B |
Private and other holdings | Finance & Investments | 20.6% | $2.1B |
Vossloh AG XETRA: VOS-DE | Finance & Investments | 4.6% | $457M |
Deutsche Lufthansa XETRA: LHA-DE | Finance & Investments | 2.5% | $247M |