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for sale "Austrian Entrepreneur" Richard Lugner Hand Signed 4X5.5.5

11 October 1932) is an Austrian entrepreneur

in the construction

industry, a Viennese society

figure, and a former political candidate not affiliated with any of the

Austrian political parties. Richard Lugner is the son of the lawyer Richard

Lugner senior, who went missing in 1943 after becoming a prisoner of war in Russia during WWII. Born in Vienna, Lugner got a

licence to work as a building contractor (Baumeisterkonzession) in 1962

and at first specialized in the erection of filling stations and

the renovation of old buildings. His company started to prosper, and he

eventually became known to a wider public with the completion, in 1979, of

Vienna's first mosque,

situated on the banks of the river Danube.In 1990 he opened

his own shopping mall, Lugner

City, in a working class district

of Vienna and, from the start, aggressively advertised his business by

regularly would perform there and very common in a city that, back then, hardly had any shopping malls.

Through his shopping mall, Lugner was one of a small group of businesspeople

who helped change Austrians' shopping habits by pushing to the limits the

various regulations concerning opening hours. In a city

where shops generally closed at 6 p.m. Mondays to Fridays and at noon on

Saturdays to remain closed for more than one and a half days until Monday

morning, Lugner strongly advocated late night shopping on at least one weekday

and an extension of shopping hours to Saturday afternoon, even when that meant

raising the trades unions'

opposition.