Rainer Schmidt-Ruthenbeck
{{Short description|German billionaire businessman}}
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Rainer Schmidt-Ruthenbeck (also spelled Reiner, born 1941) is a German billionaire businessman and, together with his brother Michael, owner of 16% of the retail group Metro AG.
Biography
He is the son of Wilhelm Schmidt-Ruthenbeck and Vera Ruthenbeck. His brother is Michael Schmidt-Ruthenbeck and his sister is Viola Schmidt-Ruthenbeck.
In the 1990s his family founded the Stiftung Mercator,{{cite news |title=GUIDING VISION |url=https://www.stiftung-mercator.de/en/who-we-are/guiding-vision/ |access-date=8 April 2023 |publisher=Stiftung Mercator}} the Mercator Schweiz and the Karl Schmidt Family Foundation.{{cite news |title=Michael & Reiner Schmidt-Ruthenbeck |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/michael-reiner-schmidt-ruthenbeck/?sh=2ad1fcf14038 |access-date=8 April 2023 |publisher=Forbes Media LLC}}
On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he and his brother were ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/michael-reiner-schmidt-ruthenbeck/?list=billionaires |title=The World's Billionaires (2016 ranking): #722 Michael & Reiner Schmidt-Ruthenbeck |date=1 March 2016 |work=Forbes |accessdate=2 January 2017}}
He lives in Duisburg, Germany.
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Category:Businesspeople from North Rhine-Westphalia
Category:German businesspeople in retailing
Category:20th-century German businesspeople