Herbert Batliner

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Herbert Batliner (2009)

Herbert Batliner (born December 26, 1928 in Vaduz ; † June 8, 2019 there ) was a Liechtenstein lawyer , financial trustee and art collector .

Life

Herbert Batliner was the son of an Austrian mother and a Liechtenstein father. In addition to Liechtenstein, he also had Austrian citizenship. His father, Eduard Batliner , was director of the Liechtensteinische Landesbank (LLB) for 40 years . Batliner attended elementary school in Vaduz. In 1948 he graduated from the Mariahilf College in Schwyz . He studied at the universities in Bern , Innsbruck and Lyon . In 1952 he received his doctorate from the University of Innsbruck as Doctor iuris utriusque . At the same university in 1953 took place its graduation to the Dr. rer. oec. He was admitted to the bar in Liechtenstein in 1955.

Herbert Batliner was President of the Administrative Appeals Board from 1965 to 1970 and President of the Liechtenstein State Court from 1975 to 1980 . From 1982 to 1986 he was party president of the Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP). Batliner has held the title of Princely Commerzienrat since 1988. In 1990, the Austrian Federal President awarded him the professional title of Professor. Furthermore, in 1969 he became Senator h. c. from the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck and 1994 from the University of Salzburg .

Batliner ran the investment advisory firm Dr. Dr. Batliner & Partner in Vaduz . He is considered to be the inventor of the family foundations , with whose help millionaires were able to withdraw their assets from the tax authorities. A minimum asset of 1.5 million euros was required to set up such a family foundation, while Batliner asked for around 30,000 Swiss francs to set it up. Customers of the firm were, for example, King Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz of Saudi Arabia, the Togolese dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma , the FIAT shareholder Giovanni Agnelli , Marc Rich , Rainer Gossmann , President of the German Ice Hockey Federation , Sigurd Pütter , owner of the Iserlohner Pharmaceutical company Medice , the Bacardi family and the association of mouth and foot painting artists . Batliner's foundations were also used to cover up illegal party donations to the CDU .

In 2002 Batliner donated the organ of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican and has since been allowed to call himself Chamberlain of His Holiness . His fortune was estimated at around 200 million Swiss francs in 2006 . He also donated 730,000 euros for the faithful restoration of the organ in the collegiate church of the old chapel in Regensburg . For the inauguration of the organ in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI. his presence was therefore expected on September 13, 2006. At that time, however, the German public prosecutor was investigating Batliner for aiding and abetting tax evasion in the amount of 250 million euros. For this reason, Batliner's lawyers had negotiated safe conduct to Regensburg with the German judiciary. This decided not to arrest the seriously ill man on the way to the Pope. The proceedings were discontinued in 2007 in return for a payment of two million euros.

In 1997 he donated the Corvinus Prize , which is awarded by the Budapest European Institute (also donated by him). The Herbert Batliner European Institute, which he founded in Salzburg, has existed since 1997 as a research institute for European politics, history and culture. He was honorary president of this institute.

He also sponsored the Institute for Game Research (now the Institute for Game Research and Playing Arts ) at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. For this received the "Golden Owl on three cubes" on January 30, 1997.

Batliner was a member of the Catholic student association AV Austria Innsbruck , AKV Burgundia Bern and AV Helvetia Oenipontana Innsbruck. Since 2000 he has also wore the KÖStV Cimbria Kufstein ribbon of honor . In 1956 he married Rita Bühler, one of Oswald Bühler's daughters . The marriage resulted in four children, two sons and two daughters. His son Thomas was active as a show jumper and trainer. His youngest son Alexander was party president of the Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP) from 2009 to 2013.

In the 1960s, Herbert and Rita Batliner began collecting works of art from the Classical Modern . With around 500 works, the Batliner Collection is now one of the largest private collections in Europe for painting in this style. It has been on loan at the Albertina in Vienna since 2007 and is shown there as a permanent exhibition. He was buried in Vaduz .

honors and awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdscien/2010/batliner.pdf
  2. ↑ Herbert Batliner died , June 8, 2019, Liechtensteiner Vaterland
  3. ↑ Constantly changing 1861–2011, commemorative publication for the 150th anniversary of the Liechtensteinische Landesbank , Vaduz 2011, p. 71
  4. ↑ Address by the designated party president Alexander Batliner at the FBP party congress on December 3, 2009 in Eschen (PDF; 104 kB), website of the progressive citizens' party
  5. ^ Klaus Brandt: Gold for Public Prosecutor CD. taz Ruhr, September 4, 2004
  6. ↑ Mouth painters and aid organizations - who is behind it? ( Memento from December 5, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) MDR, exactly from November 30, 2004
  7. ^ A guardian angel for tax evaders ( memento from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 14, 2008
  8. ↑ Herbert Batliner, the most prominent and most controversial trustee in Liechtenstein, is retiring. World Week, 2006
  9. ↑ Blessing instrument of the day: Benedict organ. young world, September 11, 2006
  10. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: The Batliner case , January 20, 2009
  11. ^ Website of the Budapest European Institute, accessed on January 9, 2013
  12. ↑ permanent collection albertina.at, accessed on August 26, 2016.
  13. ↑ Herbert Batliner. In: todesangebote.vol.at. June 12, 2019, accessed August 27, 2020 .
  14. ↑ a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
  15. ↑ https://www.sbg.ac.at/whbib/docs/auszei.htm
  16. ↑ Ulrich Weinzierl : Parcours through classical modernism , Die Welt online, October 4, 2007
  17. ↑ AAS 94 (2002), n. 1, p. 85.
personal data
SURNAME Batliner, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liechtenstein lawyer and financial trustee
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Vaduz
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2019
Place of death Vaduz