Christian Baha

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Christian Baha (2008)

Christian Josef Baha (born October 30, 1968 in Vienna ) is an Austrian entrepreneur. He is the sole owner of the investment company Superfund , which he founded together with Christian Halper .

Career

Christian Baha grew up in a simple family. His mother died of leukemia when he was thirteen years old.

His first professional activity is contradicting evidence: According to one source, he worked as a police officer for ten years, according to another source, after training as a police officer, he was a member of the Vienna Security Guard for only three years . At the same time, he completed his evening school leaving examination and then began studying business administration at the University of Vienna without a regular degree.

During this time Christian Baha worked closely with Christian Halper.

Career

In the early 1990s he met the electrical engineer Christian Halper, who had developed software to read out teletext stock market data and process it on the computer ( TeleChart , later TeleTrader ).

From 1995 Christian Baha and Christian Halper built up the “Quadriga” investment group, which has been operating worldwide under the name Superfund since 2003. The headquarters are on Marc-Aurel-Strasse in Vienna . With the start of Quadriga Beteiligungs- und Vermögens-AG , the first managed futures fund for private investors was launched in Austria. In 1999 Baha took over TeleTrader, which was founded by Josef Holzer in 1991, and geared it towards the archiving and visualization of real-time products. TeleTrader, for its part, was listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange in 2001 .

The general economic recession forced the Superfund company to restructure in 2009, mainly through office closures and layoffs of employees. In 2010 the breakeven point was reached again. In autumn 2010 Baha took over all Superfund shares from his business partner Halper, who however remained on board as a consultant and investor.

In 2009, on Baha's initiative, the Supergood organic restaurant was opened in Berlin, which was also to be established in Austria in 2012.

Sponsorship

Superfund sponsored the athletes Sybille Bammer , Mirna Jukić and Bode Miller .

In addition, from 2002/03 to 2006/07 the soccer team FC Superfund Pasching and from July 2008 to the end of the 2010/11 season the soccer team Kapfenberger Sportvereinigung Superfund received financial support.

As a sponsor , Christian Baha also provided financial means for the conversion of Arnold Schwarzenegger's birthplace in Thal, built in the style of Biedermeier, into the Schwarzenegger Museum , which was inaugurated with a soft opening on July 30, 2011 after a delay of several years .

Private wealth

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Stephanie Graf and Christian Baha (2009)

In spring 2007 Christian Baha bought Sonnenberg Castle in Thurgau and the associated farm with around 150 hectares of arable land, grassland, forest and wineries. He also owns organic farms in the south of France and New Zealand .

Private life

Christian Baha has had a relationship with the former Austrian athlete Stephanie Graf (* 1973) since 2009 . He and Graf have a daughter (* 2010) and a son (* 2003) from a previous relationship.

Baha is friends with director Oliver Stone and was given the opportunity to star in two Hollywood films. In Wall Street: Money Doesn't Sleep , he played a hedge fund boss and in Transformers 3 a wicked wizard. In 2012 he also worked in Kevin Carraway's 7 Below - House of Dark Souls as Dr. Lipski and in the thriller Savages , another production by Oliver Stone, as DEA agent . He has also worked as a television and film producer for years, including at the Women's World Awards 2006 and 2009, the Save the World Awards 2009 and Eugenio Mira's 2013 mystery thriller Grand Piano - Symphony of Fear .

Baha lives in Monaco and has other residences in New York City , Los Angeles and Costa Rica .

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Christian Baha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Conny Bischofberger & Alexander Strecha: Baha: "The financial meltdown is coming": In an interview with Conny Bischofberger and Alexander Strecha, the Superfund founder talks about Schwarzenegger, the euro crisis and gold bars. ( Memento from June 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Sebastian Fischer: Former Chancellor celebrates hedge funds. Schröder with the locusts. In: Der Spiegel from March 9, 2006
  3. ↑ Seeds: Christian Baha in an interview with Seeds ( memento from September 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), April 30, 2016
  4. ↑ a b Stefan Jany: I no longer trust some of the big banks in Switzerland. In: Wiener Zeitung July 15, 2009
  5. ↑ Anne Vorbringer: Persian star chef creates organic burgers for Berlin. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 20, 2009, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Cultural sponsorship and the financial crisis: priorities are being re-set. In: Vorarlberg Online October 22, 2008
  7. ↑ Kapfenberg becomes "KSV Superfund": Newcomers get new main sponsor on July 10, 2008
  8. ↑ Fortunately, only one sponsor is missing in: Kleine Zeitung from April 17, 2011
  9. ↑ These are the men behind the Arnie Museum ( memento from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in: Kleine Zeitung from August 25, 2009
  10. ^ Schwarzenegger: Museum opening for the birthday in: Die Presse from July 29, 2011
  11. ↑ Barbara Hettich: From policeman to castle owner. ( Memento from March 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Thurgauer Zeitung May 5, 2009
  12. ↑ Steffi Graf and her millionaire . oe24.at.
  13. ↑ Steffi Graf is freshly in love . ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) kleinezeitung.at.
  14. ↑ The second child for the "Countess" . ( Memento from September 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Kleine Zeitung , March 23, 2010.
  15. ↑ http://www.ftd.de/unternehmen/finanzdienstleister/:christian-baha-vom-polizisten-in-wien-zum-millionaer-in-monaco/1090650099613.html ( Memento from April 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ^ Susanne Lintl: Christian Baha in Wall Street 2 ( Memento from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Kurier (daily newspaper)
personal data
SURNAME Baha, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baha, Christian Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna