Karl Rabeder ( him. Karl Rabeder ) - Austrian businessman, famous for the fact that he gave all his fortune to charity.
In 2009, he created the non-profit company MyMicroCredit. The activities of this organization are aimed at fighting hunger in Central and South Africa . In February 2010, Rabeder promised to transfer 3 million pounds , including his villa in the Alps for 1.4 million pounds, a country house with 17 hectares of land in Provence for 613 thousand pounds, a collection of gliders for 350 thousand pounds and his Audi car A8 for 44 thousand pounds. He also sold his business. Karl Rabeder claims that only now did he feel free [1] [2] . Today he rents a modest apartment in Mallorca , earning by lecturing how to become happy without money [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Samuel H .. Millionaire gives away fortune that made him miserable , The Telegraph (January 8, 2010). The appeal date is February 18, 2015.
- ↑ Zehner. Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism . - University of Nebraska Press, 2012. - P. 244. - ISBN 9780803243361 .
- Ff Heffernan M. A Bigger Prize: Why We Do Better . - Simon and Schuster, 2014. - ISBN 9781471100772 .
Links
- The Austrian rich man distributes property to the poor and moves from the palace to the hut , Channel One . The appeal date is February 18, 2015.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150218064759/http://rabeder.com/rabeder.php
- http://www.mymicrocredit.org/mymicrocredit/