The generous gesture of the Red Bull founder before his death
Red Bull founder Mateschitz is dead
Dietrich Mateschitz is dead. The Red Bull founder died at the age of 78. The company based in Fuschl informed the employees in an email.
More than 2000 Red Bull employees received an extra bonus with their October salary. Company founder Dietrich Mateschitz is said to have initiated this before his death.
All his economic success and the billions in his account never let Dietrich Mateschitz withdraw. Now, two weeks after his death, he is providing yet more proof of this – with a surprise for more than 2000 employees of the Red Bull empire. “He is said to have decreed that before he died. That’s how he was, the boss,” says an employee to the “Salzburger Nachrichten”.
Group founder Mateschitz died at the age of 78 as a result of cancer. Until the very end, only his closest circle knew how he was doing.
As the “Salzburger Nachrichten” reports, Mateschitz, who owns 49 percent of the Red Bull company with its extensive sports empire, made his employees in Austria very happy: they received a bonus of 3,000 euros with their October salary. tax free. He is said to have arranged this shortly before his death.
A total of six million euros
The company did not confirm the amount of the bonus to the newspaper, but that it had “used the legal options in this regard”.
Background: The Austrian government has decided to take relief measures because of the sharp rise in prices. This also includes – as in Germany – a tax and duty-free cost-of-living premium of up to 3,000 euros, which the employer can pay out to employees. Mateschitz is said to have exhausted this sum in full, which is more than six million euros with more than 2,000 employees in Austria.
