Heinz Anton Marolt

Heinz Anton Marolt (born May 19, 1958 in Klagenfurt , spelling in the hotel business: Heinz-Anton ) is an Austrian hotelier and former politician ( FPÖ ). Marolt was a member of the Austrian National Council from 1998 to 1999 .

Life

Origin and family

Heinz Anton Marolt's paternal grandparents opened a small inn right on Lake Klopein before the Second World War . This soon became the main source of income, the previously dominant agriculture faded into the background. After the end of the war, during the economic boom, the inn was expanded into a hotel and dance hall, while the agriculture that was originally carried out faded into the background.

Marolt is the son of Anton Marolt junior, the oldest son of the founder, and Ida-Christine, née Reautschnig. He is married to Elke Marion, née Stampfer. They are the parents of two daughters and two sons, including the second-born actress and model Larissa Marolt .

education

From 1964 to 1968 he attended elementary school in Sankt Kanzian am Klopeiner See and then until 1973 the secondary school in Völkermarkt . He was involved in his parents' business from an early age and started earning his pocket money there from the age of 10. Between 1974 and 1977 Marolt completed an apprenticeship as a cook and waiter in Tyrol and attended the hotel management school in Villach . From 1977 to 1978 he did military service .

hotelier

From 1978 to 1992, Marolt was the hotel manager of the Promenaden-Strandhotel Marolt am Klopeiner See in Carinthia and has been an independent hotelier of this house since 1993.

In 1992, Marolt took over his parents' hotel and began the general renovation. In the course of time, he expanded the hotel complex with extensive investments, so that it grew to an apartment hotel with its own beach and spacious lawn, his promenade beach hotel Marolt , which is run as a sole proprietorship, with tennis and beach volleyball courts and two holiday homes on the lake.

Around 2015, Marolt and his daughter Larissa acquired the Seehotel Klopein , which had previously been part of the real estate portfolio of Unicredit Bank Austria - financed in part from the assets she earned from acting and modeling . “We are very proud of that: The facility has 71,000 square meters of floor space, 8,000 square meters of which is beach. That is as big as our previous properties put together ", Heinz Anton Marolt was quoted in September 2015. Since this acquisition, the Marolt family's hotel complex extends over an area of ​​around 142,000 square meters, which corresponds to an area of ​​around 20 football fields.

Unclear involvement in the Hypo-Alpe-Adria scandal

According to an expert opinion by the Carinthian business lawyer Johann Quendler, the then sole proprietor Marolt was already so overindebted in 1997 with 9.23 million euros in liabilities with the banking group Hypo Alpe Adria that “there is almost certainly an insolvency, thus the general bankruptcy reason for insolvency […] given is". However, no bankruptcy petition was filed . Instead, a debt of 15 million Schilling , approved by the then Hypo board director Wolfgang Kulterer , was completely waived. A further 15 million schillings were converted into "recovery capital" and later written off by the bank (a total of around 2.18 million euros). In addition, funds are said to have flowed to Marolt in the form of “cultural and event funding”. In 2010, an investigation was initiated against Kulterer on suspicion of infidelity .

The expert opinion of August 9, 2013 prepared by the expert Josef Schima on behalf of the Klagenfurt Public Prosecutor confirmed that "the granting of the estate or the conversion into betterment capital [...] was not economically feasible", the balance sheets from 1992 to 1994 "clearly negative equity ”and“ the damage totaling 30 million schillings [...] was accepted ”. The investigation against Kulterer was discontinued in January 2014. Kulterer is said to have not been able to detect any intent to cause damage in this case. Marolt always emphasized in the matter that he had reached a consensus with the bank and that the decree was not related to his political activities between 1991 and 1999 as FPÖ local party chairman and member of the National Council. It was then open to the management board of Hypo Alpe Adria whether to file a continuation of the criminal proceedings against Kulterer or bring a civil law suit against Marolt.

politics

Marolt was from 1991 to 1997 and from 1997 to 1999 local council in St. Kanzian. From 1991 to 1999 he was a member of the community board and between 1990 and 1999 he was the local party leader of the FPÖ. Between 1991 and 1995 he held the office of deputy district party chairman of the FPÖ Völkermarkt and from 1990 to 1995 he held the office of chairman of the Provincial Tourism Council of Carinthia. Marolt was also chairman of the regional communal department of the FPÖ Carinthia from 1993 to 1997 and from 1991 a member of the Chamber of Commerce for Carinthia.

From June 15, 1998, Marolt represented the FPÖ in the National Council and was its tourism spokesman. Since he ran as Carinthia's top candidate on the Richard Lugner list in the 1999 National Council election, he was without party affiliation from August 19, 1999. Marolt cited the search for a new challenge and Lugner's economic competence as the reason for his change. The FPÖ, on the other hand, had presented it as not having made Marolt a candidate because he had not disclosed his financial circumstances. However, Marolt denied this. After Richard Lugner's list was unsuccessful, Marolt resigned from the National Council on October 28, 1999. He had previously been elected deputy chairman of Lugner's party The Independents in September 1999 . Marolt ran in the municipal council elections in 2003 in Sankt Kanzian with a list of citizens, which, however, narrowly missed a mandate for entry into the municipal council.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Company history and family history ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Hotel Marolt, accessed on February 15, 2018. (Note: On this hotel page the first names of all family members are shown with a hyphen, but officially they are without such, see Marolt, Heinz Anton in firmenabc.at, based on the data of the commercial register ; see the imprint pages of the Hotel Marolt ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . and the official website of Larissa Marolt , all accessed February 15, 2018.)  
2. ↑ Nathalie Martens: People: The Hiltons from Klopeiner See. Larissa Marolt and father Heinz Anton own real estate worth 30 million. In: news.at , September 19, 2015, accessed on February 15, 2018.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} The Hypo-Connection of the family of “jungle camp” star Larissa Marolt. In: Format , January 23, 2014.
4. ↑ Kulterer is said to have waived millions of FP politicians. ( Memento from September 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Kleine Zeitung , September 22, 2010.
5. ^ Hypo gifts to liberal politicians. In: news.at , September 25, 2010, accessed on January 20, 2014.
6. ↑ Larissa Marolt, her father and the thing with the Hypo-Loan. ( Memento from January 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In : wirtschaftsblatt.at , January 23, 2014.
7. ^ Hypo: Procedure for credit for hotel discontinued. In: kaernten. ORF .at, January 23, 2014.
8. ^ FP-Marolt is running for Lugner in Carinthia. In: Wirtschaftsblatt , August 17, 1999.
9. ↑ Lugner named DU boss. In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , September 20, 1999.
10. ↑ Choice is not for the court. In: Kleine Zeitung , January 9, 2004.

Web links

• Heinz Anton Marolt on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Company and family history on the Hotel Marolt website.