After the bankruptcy of the Signa Group, director Christoph Stadlhuber breaks his silence. He wrote a ‘personal word’ to his followers. He does not mention René Benko, only indirectly about the bankruptcy.
Stadlhuber from Burgenland led Signa Holding together with Marcus Mühlberger for more than ten years. During the course of the bankruptcies of real estate juggler Benko, he repeatedly came into the picture, most recently when Stadlhuber resigned from his position on the supervisory board.
Since the bankruptcy, the 56-year-old has never spoken out. Now he broke his silence with a lengthy post on the LinkedIn platform (see below). “For everything that has happened and is being discussed publicly, here is a personal word,” Stadlhuber wrote, addressing the bankruptcy only indirectly.
“He helped shape the cityscape of Vienna”
The past thirteen years have been “probably the most exciting” of his professional career, says the manager, who goes on to praise Signa’s projects. In this way they have “shaped the cityscape of Vienna in a significant and positive way”, the “outdoor location” Goldenes Quartier has been able to “escape from its shadowy existence”.
He regrets that the collaboration with the team in Signa’s Vienna office “had to end so abruptly.” Stadlhuber does not write anything about the reasons for this, and he does not mention René Benko at all. “We still had a lot planned in Vienna,” explains the manager – the abandoned Lamarr construction site on Mariahilfer Strasse is proof of this.
Become an independent advisor
Christoph Stadlhuber, who earned a princely fee at Signa, now wants to become an independent entrepreneur as a real estate consultant and project developer. He concludes his post that he is looking forward to “exciting new projects and collaborations.”
Many of his followers wish him all the best and congratulate him on his projects. But there are also critical comments that accuse Stadlhuber of being partly responsible for Signa’s bankruptcy and of now being unreasonable.
In the largest bankruptcy in Austrian economic history, criminal investigations are now underway for serious fraud – according to information from “Krone” against at least one director. It is the presumption of innocence.
Source: Krone

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