Christoph Henkel (born 11 February 1958) is a London-based German billionaire businessman. As of September 2021, his net worth is estimated at US$1.7 billion.

Early life

Christoph Henkel was born on 11 February 1958 in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

, West Germany. Henkel's grandfather, Friedrich Karl Henkel, founded

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, commonly known as Henkel, is a German multinational chemical and consumer goods company headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. It is active in both the consumer and industrial sectors. Founded in 1876, the DAX company is organi ...

, a cleaning products company, in 1876. His father,

Konrad Henkel Konrad Henkel (25 October 1915 - 24 April 1999) was a German chemist and industrialist, and long-time head of the Henkel, Henkel Group. Life Konrad Henkel was born in 1915, the grandson of Friedrich Karl Henkel, Fritz Henkel (1848-1930), founde ...

, took over the company and turned it into a global corporation. Christoph Henkel was born in February 1958

Career

Henkel inherited a £1 billion stake in the German chemical company

shortly after his father's death in 1999. He is a co-founder and co-owner of Canyon Equity, headquartered in

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. He is also the owner of Dunton Hot Springs resort in

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, US. He received an honorary doctorate from the

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in 2007. In the ''

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'' ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 5th with an estimated family fortune of £15billion.

Personal life

Henkel resides in London, England. He is married to Katrin Bellinger, an art dealer and collector, specialising in Old Master drawings. They have two sons.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Henkel, Christoph 1958 births Living people Businesspeople from London German billionaires Businesspeople from Düsseldorf Henkel family 20th-century German businesspeople 21st-century German businesspeople