Hospital billionaire Bernard Große Broermann is dead. He was one of the hundred richest Germans.
His group of companies will remain family-owned. According to the company, Asklepios now looks after more than 3.5 million patients per year with around 68,000 employees in around 170 medical facilities. In the list of the richest Germans, manager magazin recently ranked BroermanN in 78th place with assets of around three billion euros. The acquisition of the then state hospital operation in Hamburg in 2005 was of crucial importance for the development of the group.