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Dieter Schwarz
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Dieter Schwarz

German entrepreneur and owner of the Schwarz-Gruppe. He is the chairman and CEO of the supermarket chain Lidl and the hypermarket chain Kaufland. In 2013, he was estimated be worth €19.6 billion, and ranked the 24th richest person in the world.

Schwarz gGmbH donated almost 70 million euros from 2008 to 2010 to charitable causes, including a science center and a university campus in Heilbronn, a city in southwest Germany where he became an honorary citizen in 2007, and where he lives with his wife, Franziska.