Klaus Kira net worth
Klaus Tschira Net Worth: Klaus Tschira is a German entrepreneur with a net worth of $7.5 billion. Born in Freiburg, Germany in 1940, Klaus Tschira made his fortune mainly through his stake in software giant SAP AG. After a diploma in physics at IBM, he became one of the co-founders of the German software company SAP in Mannheim, Germany in 1972 with four former university colleagues (Hans-Werner Hector, Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner and Claus Wellenreuther) .
Over the years, SAP has grown into one of the largest software companies in the world, with 2011 revenue of $18.5 billion. However, Tschira quit the company in 1998 and left its supervisory board in 2007 to focus more on philanthropy. In fact, the Klaus Tschira Foundation (KTF), a non-profit organization founded in 1995, is now a charitable limited liability company. Statistics show that KTF is one of the largest charitable organizations in Germany today, with assets of $2.7 billion. In 2010, it reportedly spent $37 million on scientific research and cultural programs, such as the Young Software Award, which honors students who use software to solve math or science problems. In 2008, Klaus founded another organization of the same type with his wife, Gerda Tschira, called the Gerda and Klaus Tschira Foundation. In addition, he is an avid astronomer in his spare time and has an asteroid named after him between Mars and Jupiter.
