Her name is Marlene Engelhorn, 29, and she is the rightful heir to the fortune of the founders of BASF, the largest chemical company on the planet. So far, everything correct. The news jumps when this student of German Language and Literature in Vienna has rejected an inheritance of 4,000 million dollars.
“It’s not that I don’t want to be rich, it’s that I don’t want to be so rich,” says Engelhorn, who believes that “so much money doesn’t make you happy.” In this way, this young woman appeals to all those who want to achieve the redistribution of wealth in the world and that the rich pay more taxes to achieve “a fairer society”.
His grandmother, Traudl Engelhorn, occupies the 687th position of the largest fortunes in the world, according to publications Forbes. Her idea was that her granddaughter would inherit everything that had been amassed in more than a century of chemistry and pharmacy, but she has declared that she renounces 90% of that amount. Therefore, she ‘only’ will receive 200 million.
She has always considered herself “privileged” and is not ashamed to call herself a “rich girl”. In addition, she confesses that it is complicated to have to manage all this wealth so that it is not devalued. “It takes a lot of time, effort, stress…” she notes. Marlene also talks about the scruples you have to have to make decisions with that money.
“As someone who has enjoyed the benefits of wealth all my life, I know how skewed our economy is and I can’t keep sitting and waiting for someone, somewhere to do something. We have reached the end of the road when another 250 million people will be pushed into extreme poverty this year”, he defended last May in an interview with the BBC in the framework of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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