Renate Piller

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Renate Heidler-Piller (* 1946 or 1947 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian business woman. From December 1986 until his death in October 1988 she was the last partner and fiancé of the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss .

Life

Education and first marriage

After attending primary school, Piller completed her training at a commercial school. At the age of 21 she met a significantly older bank clerk whom she married. The marriage remained childless and was divorced after two years. Piller then took her maiden name again and went to Munich.

Activities in Munich

She then worked for an investment fund, the organizing committee of the 1972 Olympic Games , Munich Fashion Week and a cosmetics manufacturer. She came to TV Weiß-Blau , where she was responsible for advertising and public relations.

The relationship with Franz Josef Strauss

Strauss and Piller, who was 31 years younger, met on November 28, 1986 during a party in the house of the lawyer Hermann Mayer on Nymphenburger Strasse. At the time she was 39, Strauss 71. The appointment of Mayer as managing director of TV Weiß-Blau, arranged by Franz Georg Strauss , was celebrated . The next morning, Strauss invited her to dinner in the Canale Grande restaurant in Nymphenburg . It took place without police protection, he picked her up from her apartment in Thalkirchen himself .

From then on they spent many weekends together. On the way home from a party in Kufstein shortly before Christmas, he asked her if she wanted to be his girlfriend. On December 23, 1986 both celebrated Christmas before, in spring 1987 she accompanied him to the Vienna Opera Ball . As Strauss mentioned the subject of marriage and spoke the betrothal, she tried before the diocesan court in Salzburg, the cancellation to reach her 20 years earlier closed marriage. The process dragged on until 1988. In August 1988 she went on vacation with Strauss and his children in the family's summer house in the Calanques des Issambres in the south of France in the municipality of Roquebrune-sur-Argens . At the end of September, both promised the society journalist Marie Waldburg from the Münchner Abendzeitung the exclusive rights of their upcoming engagement.

Piller found out about her partner's circulatory collapse on the evening of October 1, 1988. Immediately before attending the fashion week gala, she received a call from Interior Secretary Peter Gauweiler . As a non-family member, she received no information from the hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder in Regensburg. On October 2, 1988, Gauweiler had them picked up by his chauffeur in Munich and - against the concerns of the security staff - brought them to Strauss's sick bed.

At the children's request, she did not take part in the front row of the public funeral procession on October 7, 1988. The funeral of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI. , took place in close family circle in their presence on October 8th in the family crypt of the Kaisers and Zwicknagls in Rott am Inn on the cemetery behind the prelate's cane.

The relationship with the Strauss children

Piller did not succeed in building a close relationship with Franz Josef Strauss's three children. They remained clearly aloof from her. When asked by journalists about their father's relationship, they initially waved them off. In an interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung with Franz Georg Strauss and Monika Hohlmeier on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of their father's death, they described their concerns that their father had taken over the active life at the side of his much younger and lively partner, and Franz Georg Strauss named them "Rather the wrong woman" for him.

In September 2008, shortly before the 20th anniversary of the death of Franz Josef Strauss, Piller gave an interview to Park Avenue magazine . In it she complained that she “no longer existed in connection with Strauss”. Max Strauss in particular "followed them with sheer hatred". It no longer played a role in the official celebrations for the 20th anniversary of his death.

Second marriage

In April 1995 she married the Linz urologist and university lecturer Helmut Heidler in Salzburg.

Filmography

On March 24, 2006, she was a guest on the talk show Nachtcafé on SWR. It was part of the 75-minute German TV documentary Strauss - Rise and Fall of a Family from 2006.

literature

  • Renate. The last act of the great opera. In: Werner Biermann: Strauss. The rise and fall of a family. Rowohlt, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-499-62302-1 .
  • Thomas Schuler: Strauss. A family biography. Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-502-15026-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Hägler: A man, such a man. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 17, 2010, accessed May 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ Werner Biermann: Strauss. The rise and fall of a family. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2006, p. 320.
  3. ↑ Dagmar von Taube, Sven Michaelsen: "That was the worst bullying". In: Welt.de. September 28, 2008, accessed October 3, 2018 . (Interview with Max Strauss, Monika Hohlmeier and Franz Georg Strauss).
  4. ↑ Dagmar von Taube: "Gossip is important for social hygiene". In: Welt.de. March 13, 2016, accessed October 3, 2018 . (Interview with Marie Waldburg).
  5. ↑ Werner Biermann: Strauss. The rise and fall of a family. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2006, p. 319.
  6. ↑ “The real friends stayed”. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 17, 2010 (Interview by Peter Fahrenholz and Dietrich Mittler with Franz Georg Strauss and Monika Hohlmeier).
  7. ↑ Park Avenue visits Franz Josef Strauss' last great love, Renate Piller ( Memento from December 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Former Strauss girlfriend on her honeymoon. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. April 26, 1995, p. 42.
personal data
SURNAME Piller, Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heidler-Piller, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian business woman and partner of the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg