Dietmar Hopp
Dietmar Hopp (born April 26, 1940, Heidelberg, Germany), aged 86, is a German businessman.
Dietmar Hopp’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Dietmar
Dietmar Hopp’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
What Dietmar’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on R (9).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Dietmar’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Dietmar apart
The Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg came in 1999, when Dietmar Hopp was 59.
The schooling ran through TH Karlsruhe.
Giorgio Moroder shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- TH Karlsruhe
- Awards
- Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (1999), Deutscher Stifterpreis (2014) and Global Economy Prize (2008)
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 19
What the chart says
Dietmar, according to the stars
Core essence
Dietmar is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Dietmar is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Dietmar wants to be loved
Dietmar wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Dietmar like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Dietmar creates
How Dietmar makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Dietmar creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Dietmar is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Dietmar is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Dietmar scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Dietmar's birth date. Working below.
Where Dietmar sits
Six lines
Dietmar’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Dietmar Hopp
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Heidelberg on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Heidelberg that night
Computed for 49.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Heidelberg was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 81.2° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
Heidelberg sits at 49.4°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −40.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Heidelberg on any night.
The Moon, 75% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 4° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Heidelberg, Germany
- Lives in
- Walldorf
Wikidata records Walldorf as Dietmar Hopp's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Dietmar Hopp: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Dietmar's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · A bowl chart · No Water planets
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Dietmar Hopp at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Dietmar Hopp's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 26, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Dietmar Hopp was born on April 26, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Dietmar Hopp's birth date, April 26, 1940, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Dietmar’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dietmar Hopp's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Water.
- Dietmar Hopp combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Dietmar’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionSaturn1.0° to 1.8° orb
Dietmar’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareNeptune1.3° to 2.2° orb
Dietmar’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb
Dietmar’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileMars3.3° to 4.1° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.7° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.9° to 5.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.2° to 5.4° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Dietmar’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 15°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 6°40′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 7°54′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 17°44′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 24°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Sun 0.7°
- Hygiea square Mars 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.8°
- Eros trine Sun 1.9°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.1°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.6°
Dietmar’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Dietmar’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 2.2°
Born the same day as Dietmar
Giorgio Moroder was born on April 26, 1940 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Heidelberg, at 49.4°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Dietmar
Born in Germany
- Elke SommerGerman actress (born 1940)
- Harald zur HausenGerman virologist and professor emeritus
- Theodor W. HänschGerman physicist and nobel laureate (born 1941)
- Arno Allan PenziasGerman-born American physicist
- Winrich KolbeAmerican film director
- Gerhard ErtlGerman physicist
More charts like Dietmar’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Edward B. LewisAmerican biologist
- H. Robert HorvitzAmerican biologist
- Jeffrey C. HallAmerican geneticist and chronobiologist
Born in Dragon years
- Oleg BoykoRussian businessman
- Anatoly SkurovMining engineer, scientist,design engineer and entrepreneur
- Radik ShaimievRussian entrepreneur
Also born on April 26
- Melania Trump1970
- Arno Allan Penzias1933
- Channing Tatum1980
- Tom Welling1977
- Jordana Brewster1980
- Kevin James1965
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Dan SimmonsAmerican novelist
- Geoffrey A. LandisAmerican aerospace engineer and science fiction author
- Frank HerbertAmerican writer
Other Taurus Dragon charts
- Beth HenleyAmerican writer and actor b. 1952
- Milton BabbittAmerican composer
- Anne O'Hare McCormickAmerican journalist
- Tom ReissAmerican author, historian, and journalist (b. 1964)
Other Steadfast Scholars
- Ian ZieringAmerican actor (born 1964)
- Iker CasillasSpanish association football player
- Frankie DettoriItalian jockey (1970-)
- Amit ElorAmerican freestyle wrestler
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Viktor HovlandNorwegian golfer
- Liam LawsonNew Zealand motor racing driver
- Joseph ZadaAustralian actor
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Dietmar’s cards
Computed from April 26, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dietmar’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q62543 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dietmar Hopp.
Quick answers about Dietmar Hopp’s chart
- How old is Dietmar Hopp?
- Dietmar Hopp is 86 years old, born April 26, 1940 in Heidelberg, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Dietmar Hopp?
- Dietmar Hopp is a Taurus: born April 26, 1940, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Dietmar Hopp's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 26, 1940 birth.
- What is Dietmar Hopp's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Dietmar Hopp's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Dietmar Hopp's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dietmar Hopp's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
