2024-02-15 04:00:43
With this decision he seeks to “return his money to society” and get out of this “dynastic ghetto of the rich.”
Name Marlene Engelhorn went around the world in recent days after it became known that he is looking for share your fortune in Austria.
As it has been known, the Austrian heiress is descendant of Friedrich Engelhornfounder of the German chemical and pharmaceutical company BASF, and when his grandmother died, he inherited her fortune.
“I have inherited a fortune and with it a power, without ever having done anything to deserve it. And the state doesn’t even want me to pay the inheritance tax,” said the 31-year-old Austrian woman.
For this reason, he decided that from his money, he will take 25 million euros (almost 25 billion pesos), which corresponds to 90% of his fortune, and he will choose 50 Austrians to decide how to redistribute it. To do this, he sent ten thousand letters to different citizens at random.
The idea is that they propose ideas “beneficial to society as a whole” through several work sessions between March and June, with all expenses paid in the city of Salzburg.
Marlene Engelhorn’s purpose is “return your money to society” and also denounce how governments have failed in their attempts to curb inequality.
“I went from the category of the richest 1% of society to the least rich 99%. Some would see it as a setback, but I see it as progress in democratic society.. “I am leaving this dynastic ghetto of the rich,” he said, ensuring that he did not regret his decision.