Austrian millionaire will distribute all assets

VIENNA, February 10. Austrian businessman from Telfs 47-year-old Reybeder selling their property: a luxury villa in the 3455 quarter. m with a lake view, sauna and a spectacular panorama of the Alps, which is estimated at 1.4 million pounds sterling. As the MIGnews, moreover, may be for sale by a beautiful stone house in Provence with 17 hectares of land, for it is expected to gain 613 thousand pounds sterling. Already gone under the hammer on a collection of six gliders in the amount of 350 thousand pounds and the luxurious Audi A8, valued at 44 thousand pounds. And Reybeder sold the details of the interior, and various accessories, which also was his condition. "My idea is that nothing is left. Absolutely nothing - admitted he told the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph. - Money is counterproductive, they do not bring happiness. From the luxurious Alpine chalet, he will move to a small wooden hut in the mountains or in a simple house in Innsbruck. All proceeds from the sale of the property he intends to pass to the charity fund, which he founded in Central and Latin America. He will not even receive a salary from this fund. "For a long time I thought that the greater wealth and luxury you have, the more automatically become happier - he said. - I come from very poor family, where typically it is: work harder to get more wealth, and I applied this rule in practice over many years. " But over time he got himself into the other, conflicting feelings. "Increasingly, I heard the words:" Forget everything you're doing now - all this luxury and consumerism - and start to live in the present ", - he said. - I had the feeling that I worked as a slave to something that I do not want, and what I have been unnecessary. I have a feeling that many people do the same. " Nevertheless, for many years, by his own admission, he simply lacked the "courage" to abandon all the attributes of a comfortable existence. The turning point came when he went with his wife for three weeks vacation to Hawaii. "It was the strongest shock in my life when I realized how horrible and callousness of this five-star lifestyle" - he said. - For three weeks we spent all that was unthinkable to spend. But all this time we had a feeling that we did not encounter any real person - that we were all just members of some action. Staff played the role of the friendly workers, and visitors - the role of important masters, but none was present, that is myself. " A similar sense of guilt he felt when traveling in South America and Africa. "I had a feeling that there is a connection between our wealth and poverty," - he said. Suddenly he realized that if you do not do it now, it will not do so until the end of life. All money raised from the sale of real estate will go to charity, he will microcredit - will provide small loans in Latin America and develop a strategy for development assistance to people self-employment in El Salvador, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Chile. After the sale of property Reybeder felt "free." He does not condemn those who prefer to keep their wealth. "I can not give any advice to other people. I just listened to the voice of your heart and soul. "