Donor List of the Austrian People's Party: Heidi Horten Biggest Donor

PeopleOther ♦ Published: August 26, 2019; 08:24 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Austrian Conservatives (ÖVP) recently published the donations to the Federal Party from 2018 and from the first 7 months of 2019. The billionaire and art collector Heidi Goëss-Horten donated a total of 931,000 euros during these 19 months. A total of 2.76 million euros was donated to the party during this period. Here you can find out who the other major donors are.

The billionaire and art collector Heidi Goëss-Horten donated a total of 931,000 euros to the ÖVP during the past 19 months. / Picture: © The Heidi Horten Collection

The largest single donor was the billionaire, patron and art collector Heidi Goëss-Horten with a total of 931,000 euros.

Heidi Horten obviously placed a kind of standing order and donated 49,000 euros per month over the last 19 months. This resulted in a total of 588,000 euros in 2018 and 343,000 euros in 2019.

Threshold of 50,000 Euros

The transfer amount of 49,000 euros per month is notable. As is well known, the previous regulation was that donations of 50,000 euros or more had to be reported, but that the obligation to report to the Court of Audit could be avoided for transfers of less than 50,000 euros.

Further Large Donors

In 2nd to 5th place for 2019 are DDr. Peter Mitterbauer (€ 132,000), the IGO Industries GmbH of the Tyrolean property investor Klaus Ortner (€ 191,000), Dr. Rudolf Gürtler (€ 65,000) and Elisabeth Umdasch (€ 60,000).

The list of further donors for 2019 is shown below: …