Götz Werner

Götz Wolfgang Werner (5 February 1944 – 8 February 2022) was a German billionaire businessman and founder of the dm-drogerie markt retail store chain.

In 2013, Manager Magazin estimated his net worth to be around €1.1 billion, making him the 109th-richest German.

From October 2003 till September 2010, he was the head of the Cross-Department Group for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

[5][6] Inspired by Rudolf Steiner's teachings of anthroposophy, Werner was one of the most influential advocates of basic income in Germany (1000 Euros for everyone[7]).

He founded the initiative Unternimm die Zukunft, or Become an entrepreneur of the future.