Heidi Horten

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Heidi Goëss-Horten , née Jelinek, widowed Horten, divorced Charmat (born February 13, 1941 in Vienna ) is an Austrian “department store heir ”, billionaire , patron and art collector .

Life

Origin and private life

Heidi Jelinek, daughter of a Viennese engraver , at that time a secretary by profession, met in 1959 (according to other sources 1960 or 1964) in a bar in Velden am Wörther See the German entrepreneur and "department store king" Helmut Horten (1909 –1987), whose wealth at that time as the “Reichsverteiler for textiles” found its foundation in 1936 in the “ Aryanization ” of the Alsberg brothers' department store . The two married in 1966. Horten gave his bride the Blue Wittelsbacher , a 35- carat diamond from Bavaria's crown jewel treasure. When her husband died in November 1987, Heidi Horten inherited the entire fortune at the time, valued at around 1 billion US dollars, from the department store group, which was sold while Helmut Horten was still alive.

In 1994 the widowed Horten married the French flower wholesaler Jean-Marc Charmat in the millionaires club Lyford Cay in the Bahamas and took his name on. Addressed as hoarding , she reacted “downright allergic” during this time. Anyone who called her that instead of Charmat ran the risk of being prosecuted by her lawyer. The marriage broke up and was divorced again in 1998. Heidi Charmat took on the name Horten again and was able to increase her fortune with the divorce. She then had a liaison with a British ex-banker who had become wealthy as a financial advisor to media tycoon Robert Maxwell .

At the end of June 2015 she married Karl “Kari” Anton Goëss , whom she had known for 20 years , in her third marriage .

Goëss-Horten, who avoids the media public and rarely gives interviews, lives in her castle villa on Carinthia's Wörthersee . She has other residences in Vienna and the Bahamas. Its neighbors on Lake Wörthersee include the Flicks, Porsches and Piëchs.

Social Commitment

Horten has been Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Helmut Horten Foundation since 1971 , which promotes the health system with donations to medical research institutions. She is a passionate ice hockey fan and has been a patron and, since 2010, honorary president of the Klagenfurt ice hockey club EC KAC .

capital

In 2008, Heidi Horten sold the Blue Wittelsbacher, which was given to her for the wedding of Helmut Horten (see above), for 23.4 million US dollars through Christie's . In 2011, she was ranked 358th on Forbes' list with an estimated net worth of $ 3.2 billion . On the list of the richest Austrians , she took fourth place; in 2014 she was eighth in the trend magazine's ranking with 3.38 billion euros . In 2015, Forbes valued her fortune at $ 2.7 billion (690th place on Forbes list). In March 2017, Forbes valued her at 2.8 billion dollars (more than 3 billion at the beginning of 2018) and ranked 717 on the Forbes list, in Austria at number 3, currently (February 2018) as the richest Austrian.

Art collection

With the advice of her friend and artistic confidante Agnes Husslein , former head of Sotheby’s in Austria, Heidi Horten, after the death of her husband Helmut Horten in 1987, expanded the art collection that had been started during his lifetime from the inherited and increased fortune over the following decades. This resulted in "one of the most impressive European private collections", consisting of works from around 100 years of art history.

The private collection brought together by Goëss-Horten includes works from the fin de siècle such as Gustav Klimt's Church in Unterach and Egon Schiele's Rote Wally , French impressionists such as Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir as well as pictures of the "superstars" of German Expressionism and from the classics of modernism to contemporary art .

At an auction in London in 1996, the art collector Horten, then Charmat, managed to acquire around 30 paintings in one go, completely anonymously. Among them were “pillar saints of art” such as Pablo Picasso and Lucian Freud . Medial was beating then speculated about the identity of the buyer, the drug lord to the mafia boss ranged all kinds of speculation: "art shopping including name-droping call it the one, but for Heidi Goëss-Horten, it's easy just their love of art, which they through their rich heritage. "

While Horten had previously only acted in secret, even when she had loaned individual pictures from her collection to museums, a large part of her collection was first sold in 2018, following a long-held wish of the collector, under the title WOW! The Heidi Horten Collection shown in Vienna's Leopold Museum . This made over 150 works from 100 years of art history accessible to the public. Curated the exhibition of hoarding artistic adviser and confidant Agnes Husslein is. Hans-Peter Wipplinger , the director of the Leopold Museum, succeeded in “an art coup” (ORF- Kulturmontag ) :

“The Heidi Horten Collection in the Leopold Museum in Vienna: phenomenal, fantastic, fabulous and much more! "Wow" - a programmatic exhibition title, because with this "who's who" of art history from around 100 years your mouth stays open, your hat goes off and museum directors completely gasp. "

- ORF Culture Monday : A star parade of art

Pictures (selection)

Source with images: Leopold Museum.

Luxury yachts

Heidi Horten yacht.

Horten is the owner of Carinthia VII . With a length of almost 100 meters, the ship is one of the largest and most luxurious private yachts in the world. Heidi Horten is said to have been involved in the design of the four-story “mega-yacht”, and the planning and design were created by her. The implementation was carried out by the London designer Tim Heywood. The predecessor Carinthia VI with a classic Atlantic blue hull and snow-white superstructure, like the later Carinthia VII built at the Lürssen shipyard in Bremen, was commissioned by Helmut Horten .

Ibiza affair

In a video that was secretly filmed in July 2017 and leaked to Spiegel and Süddeutsche Zeitung in May 2019 , the then FPÖ party chairman Heinz-Christian Strache claims that billionaires such as René Benko , Gaston Glock and Heidi Horten as well as the gaming group Novomatic have one Tarnverein of the FPÖ would donate for the election campaign of the FPÖ in violation of the regulations on party financing in Austria . All the people and companies named in the video as donors disputed the process on the same day.

In contrast, Horten donated around 588,000 euros in 2018 and around 343,000 euros in 2019 to the ÖVP . Since the donations were divided into several individual amounts of less than 50,000 euros, they did not have to be published immediately.

Awards

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j A star parade of art. In: tv. ORF .at, contribution by Claudia Teissig in the program Kulturmontag on ORF 2 , edition on February 12, 2018, accessed on February 13, 2018.
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  4. ↑ "I love every single picture". In: news.at. February 11, 2018, accessed March 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Heidi Horten: Female, single, rich. In: manager magazin, January 30, 2004, accessed October 17, 2011.
  6. ^ Decision-making bodies: Board of Trustees on the Helmut Horten Foundation website , accessed on February 13, 2018.
  7. ↑ Horten pleads for an ice rink at "Minimundus". In: kaernten. ORF .at, November 1, 2010, accessed February 13, 2018.
  8. ↑ Forbes list, accessed in 2011 or 2012 ( former direct link no longer available, accessed on February 13, 2018.)
  9. ↑ Who is richest in Austria. In: Austria. ORF .at, June 29, 2014, accessed on February 13, 2018.
  10. ^ APA : Mateschitz richest Austrian, Stronach wins. In: derStandard.at , March 3, 2015, accessed on February 13, 2018.
  11. ↑ a b c WOW! The Heidi Horten Collection. February 16, 2018 - July 29, 2018. With selected images in: website of the Leopold Museum , undated, accessed on February 13, 2018.
  12. ↑ ORF at / agencies red: German media: secret recordings burden Strache. May 17, 2019, accessed May 27, 2019 .
  13. ^ Revelations by SPIEGEL and "Süddeutsche": Federal Chancellor Kurz wants to comment on the Strache scandal . In: Spiegel Online . May 18, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 27, 2019]).
  14. ^ ÖVP: ÖVP publishes sums and names of donors in 2018 and 2019. In: APA OTS. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Fabian Schmid, Maria Sterkl, Markus Sulzbacher, Michael Völker: Heidi Horten donated almost one million euros to the ÖVP - derStandard.at in two years. In: derStandard.at. Retrieved August 20, 2019 (Austrian German).
  16. ↑ Kurier: Billionaire Heidi Horten still has surprises . Article dated November 24, 2018, accessed November 24, 2018.
  17. ↑ Politics: Billionaire Horten dubbed “Countess”. In: ORF.at . August 21, 2019, accessed August 23, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Heidi Horten received state medals in gold. In: ORF.at . August 30, 2019, accessed August 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoard, Heidi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goëss-Horten, Heidi (third marriage); Charmat, Heidi (second marriage); Horten, Heidi (first marriage); Jelinek Heidi (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian department store heir, billionaire, patron, philanthropist and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna