Bernard Grosse Broermann (20 November 1943 – 25 February 2024) was a German billionaire businessman who was the founder of Asklepios Kliniken, one of Germany's three largest operators of private hospitals.
[1] Bernard Grosse Broermann grew up in Damme and studied medicine and chemistry in Berlin and Münster up to the respective preliminary examinations.
[2] He then switched to studying law and business administration and graduated with both legal state examinations and admission to the bar.
During his studies, he founded the company, "Capital Treuhand", which was responsible for managing SEC-controlled funds.
The award committee is made up of professors from the universities of Giessen and Marburg, supplemented by representatives from the Max Planck Society, the Fraunhofer Society and the Leibniz Association as well as a representative from Asklepios.