ABSTRACT
Hamburg, December 4, 2008, 9:45 p.m.: The audience in the theatre was going wild. There was whistling and jeering. Some heckled raucously. At the end, waves of rousing applause thundered through the theatre, as though at a sporting event. On stage stood a chorus of twenty-four poor or unemployed individuals in dripping wet raincoats, who, during the final scene, had loudly proclaimed the names, office addresses, and estimated fortunes of the Hanseatic city's twenty-eight richest citizens:
Number 31 on Manager Magazin's 2008 rich list: Klaus Michael Kühne, Kühne und Nagel Logistics. 29, Ferdinand St., 20095 Hamburg. Net Worth 4.1 billion euros. Number 24 on Manager Magazin's 2008 rich list: under the threat of a temporary injunction issued on October 24, 2008, this name cannot be read out. Net Worth 4.5 billion euros. Number 5 on Manager Magazin's 2008 rich list: under the threat of a temporary injunction issued on October 24, 2008, this name cannot be read out. Net Worth 8.1 billion euros. 1
