collectively the guests of this elegant evening are worth billions of euros this is the face of wealth in Germany mainly male and although we're close to the super-rich here their world remains somehow out of reach Hamburg home to manager magazine's parent company the speaker group hockey any publication keeps closer tabs on Germany's ultra rich every year the magazine's team gathers information on wealthy Germans and using the Forbes model makes a special edition with a list of Germany's 1001 richest people it's painstaking