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The 29-year-old rejects the 4 billion euro inheritance: I have done nothing to deserve it

2022-08-09 22:24:07Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The 29-year-old rejects the 4 billion euro inheritance: I have done nothing to
Marlene Engelhorn

With four billion euros, you can buy several islands in Greece, an important Premier League team, an airline with a fleet of at least 10 Boeing 747s of the latest model, 4 giant ships used for transoceanic cruises, and many vast others. But a 29-year-old girl from Germany said "no" to this mountain of money.

It is not a fairy tale story, but the decision of Marlene Engelhorn, one of the heirs of the chemical giant BASF, a company with 111 thousand workers that has invented and produced for decades chemical colors, sulfuric acid, and the technology used in videotapes. Although a good part of BASF's shares already belongs to international funds, a part still belongs to the family of the company's founder, Friedrich Engelhorn.

Marlene, still studying, thinks she doesn't deserve all that money. "It is not a matter of will, but of correctness, I have not done anything for this inheritance, I am simply the result of a genetic lottery, total coincidence. It shouldn't be up to me to decide how to spend the family's money. "I am a person who has enjoyed the wealth of the family all my life, and I know how deformed today's economic model is", are her words. 

For this reason, Marlene has founded a movement made up of wealthy heirs to ask the state to significantly increase taxes on wealthy families, called Taxmenow.

Normally, Malene is not naïve, and has nevertheless accepted 10% of the inheritance, about 400 million euros, enough for a fabulous life for generations. But for the full inheritance she says, I don't really know what I could do with them."

Some, more cynical, think that the heirs of the company that almost in the absence of any advertising earns more than 60 billion euros a year, has decided to show a more human face, after a problematic past.

During Nazism, the company built the world's largest chemical plant near Auschwitz, and produced the Zyklon-B gas that caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews in concentration camps.

Still today, according to some reports, such as that of the University of Massachusetts, the factory is considered the second largest water polluter in the world, the fourth of the air.


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