Richard Lugner

Richard Lugner was born in Vienna, the son of lawyer Richard Lugner Sr. and his wife Leopoldine.{{cite web |url=https://www.news.at/a/richard-lugner |title=Richard Lugner: So erfolgreich ist der Opernball-Stammgast |author=Tanja Fischl |date=23 April 2024 |publisher=news.at |access-date=31 May 2024}} His father went missing in 1943 after becoming a prisoner of war in Russia during World War II.{{Cite web|title=Opernball? Er ging lieber zur Jagd|url=https://www.focus.de/kultur/medien/mein-vater-opernball-er-ging-lieber-zur-jagd_id_5247021.html|access-date=15 October 2020|website=FOCUS Online|language=de|archive-date=17 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017081802/https://www.focus.de/kultur/medien/mein-vater-opernball-er-ging-lieber-zur-jagd_id_5247021.html|url-status=live}}

After completing his general school education, Lugner graduated from the Federal Technical and Commercial College specializing in building construction in 1953.{{cite web |url=https://www.diepresse.com/582430/streber-fuenfer-nachzipf#slide-2 |title=Streber, Fünfer, Nachzipf |author=Robert Jaeger |date=2 January 2017 |publisher=diepresse.com |access-date=31 May 2024}}

Lugner spent the first few years of his professional career working for a Viennese construction company and then moved to the construction department of the mineral oil company Mobil Oil Austria.{{cite web |url=https://www.profil.at/wirtschaft/richard-lugner-der-meister-und-sein-moertel/402359532 |title=Richard Lugner: Der Meister und sein Mörtel |author=Jonas Vogt |date=16 March 2023 |publisher=profil.at |access-date=31 May 2024 |archive-date=31 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531185525/https://www.profil.at/wirtschaft/richard-lugner-der-meister-und-sein-moertel/402359532 |url-status=live }} Lugner got a licence to work as a building contractor (Baumeisterkonzession) in 1962 and at first specialized in the building 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 1979 completion of Vienna's first mosque, the Vienna Islamic Centre, situated on the banks of the river Danube. While the majority of his competition at this time was striving for the numerous large contracts of the reconstruction period and economic expansion, Lugner was able to assert himself with his company with relatively small contracts. He also became known for the 1988 renovation of the Stadttempel, Vienna's main synagogue. From 1997, Lugner gradually withdrew from the operative construction business and handed over the management of the construction company, which remained 100% owned by him, to his sons.{{cite web |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2631220/ing-lugner-bau-gmbh-in-konkurs |title=Ing. Lugner Bau GmbH in Konkurs |date=24 November 2006 |publisher=derstandard.at |access-date=14 June 2024}}

In 1990, Lugner opened his own shopping mall, Lugner City, the seventh largest shopping center in Austria at the time. Lugner City was opened in a working class district of Vienna, and from the start Lugner aggressively advertised his business by regularly inviting celebrities—starting with Thomas Gottschalk—who would perform there and sign autographs, a marketing strategy not very common in a city that back then had hardly 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 from noon on Saturdays 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. Together with his lawyer Adrian Hollaender, Lugner tried several times to overturn the restrictions on store opening hours for Lugner City.{{cite web |url=https://wien.orf.at/v2/news/stories/2558615/ |title=Lugner klagt wegen Menschenrechten |date=12 November 2012 |publisher=wien.orf.at |access-date=14 June 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/story/2000014224809/sonntagsoeffnung-wird-nicht-aufgeweicht |title=Lugner schließt Sonntagsöffnung ab |publisher=derstandard.at |access-date=14 June 2024 |archive-date=15 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240615032028/https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/story/2000014224809/sonntagsoeffnung-wird-nicht-aufgeweicht |url-status=live }} He opposed the smoking ban in restaurants, even though he was a non-smoker himself.{{cite web |url=https://www.heute.at/s/lugner-ein-nichtraucher-im-kampf-fur-die-raucher-55316108 |title=Lugner: Ein Nichtraucher im Kampf für die Raucher |date=13 September 2021 |publisher=heute.at |access-date=14 June 2024 |archive-date=14 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240614091237/https://www.heute.at/s/lugner-ein-nichtraucher-im-kampf-fur-die-raucher-55316108 |url-status=live }} In 2003, Lugner City was transferred to Volksbanken-Immoconsult by means of a leaseback arrangement.{{cite web |url=https://www.tagblatt-wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/wirtschaft/international/152784_Rettung-fuer-Lugner.html |title=Rettung für Lugner |date=1 December 2003 |publisher=tagblatt-wienerzeitung.at |access-date=9 July 2024}} Ten years later, the repurchase took place at the earliest possible contractual date by way of a share deal.{{cite web |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/1381371030821/lugner-kauft-lugner-city |title=Lugner kauft Lugner-City |date=6 November 2013 |publisher=derstandard.at |access-date=9 July 2024 |archive-date=9 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709181424/https://www.derstandard.at/story/1381371030821/lugner-kauft-lugner-city |url-status=live }}

In September 2005, he opened the Lugner Kino,{{cite web |url=https://wiev1.orf.at/stories/55182 |title=Lugners Kino City |date=1 September 2005 |publisher=orf.at |access-date=25 June 2024}} a multiplex cinema with 13 auditoriums offering space for 1840 visitors.{{cite web |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2159143/moertels-cineastische-erlebniswelt |title=Mörtels cineastische Erlebniswelt |date=12 December 2005 |publisher=derstandard.at |access-date=25 June 2024 |archive-date=25 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240625154908/https://www.derstandard.at/story/2159143/moertels-cineastische-erlebniswelt |url-status=live }}

Since 2007, a jury at an annual casting in Lugner City chooses an "Opera Ball Princess".{{cite web |url=https://www.vienna.at/lugners-opernball-prinzessin/1899121 |title=Lugners Opernball Prinzessin |date=27 January 2010 |publisher=vienna.at |access-date=14 June 2024}}

File:Nielsen Lugner 20120115.jpg (center) and his wife Christina, 2012 at his Lugner City mall]] In 1992, Mörtel Lugner and Mausi Lugner (his former wife Christina) brought Harry Belafonte to Lugner City, and also took him along to the Vienna Opera Ball. Each year thereafter, the couple would pay a celebrity to visit the shopping centre and then accompany them as their guest to the ball. The only star Lugner was unable to have as his guest, despite several attempts, was Liz Taylor.{{cite web |url=https://www.gala.de/stars/news/richard-lugner--lady-gaga-der-wunschgast-fuer-den-opernball-22940774.html |title=Lady Gaga der Wunschgast für den Opernball |date=9 October 2022 |publisher=gala.de |access-date=9 June 2024 |archive-date=9 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709191124/https://www.gala.de/stars/news/richard-lugner--lady-gaga-der-wunschgast-fuer-den-opernball-22940774.html |url-status=live }} In November 2023, Lugner stated he would be leaving the decisions on future guests to his daughter Jacqueline.{{cite web |url=https://www.derstandard.de/consent/tcf/story/3000000194931/lugner-entscheidet-nicht-mehr-selbst-ueber-opernall-gaeste |title=Lugner entscheidet nicht mehr selbst über Opernballgäste |date=13 November 2023 |publisher=derstandard.de |access-date=9 June 2024 |archive-date=9 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709185622/https://www.derstandard.de/consent/tcf/story/3000000194931/lugner-entscheidet-nicht-mehr-selbst-ueber-opernall-gaeste |url-status=live }}

In the late 1990s, Lugner handed over his business to his two grown sons from an earlier marriage, Alexander and Andreas Lugner, and went into politics. In the 1998 presidential elections, he finished fourth in a field of five candidates, receiving 9.91% of the popular vote; incumbent Federal president Thomas Klestil, who had been running for a second term of office, received 63.4%. For the parliamentary elections that took place the following year, the Lugners organised a separate platform called Die Unabhängigen ("The Independents") but, as they only received 1.02% of the vote, did not get any seats in the Nationalrat. Nevertheless, at the end of the millennium, a survey found that more than 90% of Austrians recognized the name Lugner. For the 2016 presidential election he announced his intention to collect the necessary signatures in order to participate.[http://www.marxist.com/political-earthquake-in-austria.htm Political Earthquake in Austria] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702234626/http://www.marxist.com/political-earthquake-in-austria.htm |date=2 July 2022 }} indicates received 2.4% in lowest turnout on record He received 6,000 supporting votes in time to be admitted to the election{{cite web |url=https://www.diepresse.com/4952245/wahlbehoerde-bestaetigt-sechs-kandidaten-am-stimmzettel |title=Wahlbehörde bestätigt: Sechs Kandidaten am Stimmzettel |date=24 March 201 |publisher=diepresse.com |access-date=21 June 2024 |archive-date=21 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621115201/https://www.diepresse.com/4952245/wahlbehoerde-bestaetigt-sechs-kandidaten-am-stimmzettel |url-status=live }} and received 2.26% in the first round.{{cite web |url=https://www.bundespraesident.at/aktuelles/detail/wahlergebnisse-seit-1951 |title=Wahlergebnisse seit 1951 |publisher=bundespraesident.at |access-date=21 June 2024 |archive-date=21 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621115201/https://www.bundespraesident.at/aktuelles/detail/wahlergebnisse-seit-1951 |url-status=live }}

Die Lugners ("The Lugners") was a reality TV show that first aired in 2003, produced by private television broadcaster ATV which showed Richard and Christina Lugner, their daughter Jacqueline, and Richard Lugner's mother-in-law Martha Haidinger at home, at work, and on holiday. It was modeled on the US series The Osbournes.{{cite web |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/1067888/die-lugners-auf-den-spuren-der-osbournes |title="Die Lugners" auf den Spuren der "Osbournes" |date=11 September 2002 |publisher=derstandard.at |access-date=21 June 2024 |archive-date=21 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621121714/https://www.derstandard.at/story/1067888/die-lugners-auf-den-spuren-der-osbournes |url-status=live }}

Lugner appeared weekly in the show Wir sind Kaiser, which has been broadcast since 2007.{{cite web |url=https://www.kleinezeitung.at/kaernten/villach/5769784/Villacher-Fasching_Endlich-bekam-Richard-Lugner-seine-Audienz-beim |title=Endlich bekam Richard Lugner seine Audienz beim Kaiser |date=17 February 2020 |publisher=kleinezeitung.at |access-date=12 June 2024 |archive-date=21 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621123601/https://www.kleinezeitung.at/kaernten/villach/5769784/Villacher-Fasching_Endlich-bekam-Richard-Lugner-seine-Audienz-beim |url-status=live }} In 2010, he played the role of Mr. Buttler at the Karl May Festival in Gföhl.{{cite web |url=https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/opernball-moertel-lugner-umgarnt-berlusconis-gespielin-a-746784.html |title="Mörtel"- Lugner umgarnt Berlusconis Gespielin |date=25 February 2019 |publisher=spiegel.de |access-date=12 June 2024 |archive-date=15 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815031457/https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/opernball-moertel-lugner-umgarnt-berlusconis-gespielin-a-746784.html |url-status=live }} In 2016, he appeared with his then-wife Cathy in the RTL II documentary soap "Lugner und Cathy – Der Millionär und das Bunny."{{cite web |url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/richard-lugner-cathy-auf-rtl-2-es-schmerzt-zuzusehen-a-1070530.html |title=Die Margarine und der süße Rammler |author=Anja Rützel |date=5 January 2016 |publisher=spiegel.de |access-date=21 June 2024}}

In a public controversy in early February 2007, opponents of abortion criticized Lugner for renting out a space in Lugner City to the VenusMed sexual medicine center. This led to a public conflict with Auxiliary bishop Andreas Laun.{{cite web |url=https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/2759340/Kirchenherren-sollen-sich-zurueckhalten |title="Kirchenherren sollen sich zurückhalten" |date=6 June 2007 |publisher=derstandard.at |access-date=16 July 2024 |archive-date=16 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716162132/https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/2759340/Kirchenherren-sollen-sich-zurueckhalten |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.news.at/a/debatte-abtreibungen-lugner-city-schoenborn-moertel-163592 |title=Debatte um Abtreibungen in Lugner-City: Schönborn will 'Mörtel' nicht exkommunizieren |date=5 February 2007 |publisher=news.at |access-date=16 July 2024 |archive-date=19 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230919021236/https://www.news.at/a/debatte-abtreibungen-lugner-city-schoenborn-moertel-163592 |url-status=live }}

In 2002, Lugner made a property available to the Church of Scientology for one week for public relations work. In 2011, he wished the organization "all the best for the future" in an email to the president of the Austrian L. Ron Hubbard Foundation, which was criticized as sympathetic to Scientology.{{cite web |url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/hacker-outen-bauloewe-als-scientology-sympathisant-moertels-tanz-mit-den-teufeln-1.1379856 |title=Mörtels umstrittene Zeltgäste |author=Marc Felix Serrao |date=12 June 2012 |publisher=sueddeutsche.de |access-date=16 July 2024 |archive-date=20 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720120023/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/hacker-outen-bauloewe-als-scientology-sympathisant-moertels-tanz-mit-den-teufeln-1.1379856 |url-status=live }}

In March 2022, a few days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lugner told the Puls 4 channel in an interview about FPÖ party leader Herbert Kickl, "they should send him to Ukraine sometime so they can shoot him."{{cite web |url=https://www.oe24.at/leute/oesterreich/lugner-will-kickl-in-die-ukraine-schicken-damit-sie-ihn-erschiessen/512203866 |title=Lugner will Kickl "in die Ukraine schicken, damit sie ihn erschießen" |date=1 March 2022 |publisher=oe24.at |access-date=16 July 2024 |archive-date=16 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716172608/https://www.oe24.at/leute/oesterreich/lugner-will-kickl-in-die-ukraine-schicken-damit-sie-ihn-erschiessen/512203866 |url-status=live }}

Lugner had four children: His two sons, Alexander and Andreas Lugner, are from his first marriage from 1961 until 1978 with Christine Gmeiner. He had another child, Nadin, with actress Sonja Jeannine. His youngest child, daughter Jacqueline (born 1993), is from his fourth marriage with Christina Lugner. The couple divorced in 2007.{{cite web |url=https://wiev1.orf.at/stories/211978/ |title=Die Lugners sind geschieden |date=2 August 2012 |publisher=wiev1.orf.at |access-date=3 July 2024 |archive-date=7 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307220504/http://wiev1.orf.at/stories/211978 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.focus.de/kultur/stars/im-sommer-heiratet-er-zum-sechsten-mal-richard-lugner-heiratet-zum-6-mal-ich-sehe-sie-als-meine-dritte-hochzeit_id_259901253.html |title=Im Sommer heiratet er zum sechsten Mal |author=Sebastian Berning |date=3 May 2024 |publisher=focus.de |access-date=3 July 2024 |archive-date=1 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240601145136/https://www.focus.de/kultur/stars/im-sommer-heiratet-er-zum-sechsten-mal-richard-lugner-heiratet-zum-6-mal-ich-sehe-sie-als-meine-dritte-hochzeit_id_259901253.html |url-status=live }}

In September 2014, Lugner married German Playboy model Cathy Schmitz at a ceremony held at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.{{cite web |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000005541708/richard-lugner-heiratete-cathy-schmitz |title=Richard Lugner heiratete Cathy Schmitz |date=13 September 2014 |publisher=derstandard.at |access-date=3 July 2024 |archive-date=15 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815031505/https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/story/2000005541708/richard-lugner-heiratete-cathy-schmitz |url-status=live }} Schmitz was a Playboy Bunny at the Playboy Club in Cologne before being the cover model of German Playboy in 2013. This was Lugner's fifth marriage.{{Cite web |last=Gasteiger |first=Carolin |date=13 September 2014 |title=Richard "Mörtel" Lugner: Hauptsache, die Leute schauen |url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/richard-moertel-lugner-hauptsache-die-leute-schauen-1.2127218 |access-date=12 August 2024 |website=Süddeutsche.de |language=de |archive-date=12 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812105624/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/richard-moertel-lugner-hauptsache-die-leute-schauen-1.2127218 |url-status=live }}[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/playboy-model-cathy-schmitz-aged-24-marries-81-year-old-billionaire-richard-lugner-1465571 Playboy Model Cathy Schmitz, Aged 24, Marries 81-Year-Old Billionaire Richard Lugner] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813063028/https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/playboy-model-cathy-schmitz-aged-24-marries-81-year-old-billionaire-richard-lugner-1465571 |date=13 August 2022 }}, Toyin Owoseje, International Business Times 15 September 2014 They divorced in 2016. After their marriage, Schmitz confirmed that she received monthly financial benefits from Lugner in the form of income.{{cite web |url=https://www.gala.de/stars/news/cathy-lugner--abrechnung-mit-ex-mann-richard-lugner-21211450.html |title=Abrechnung mit Ex-Mann Richard Lugner |date=12 December 2016 |publisher=gala.de |access-date=21 July 2024 |archive-date=29 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229092202/https://www.gala.de/stars/news/cathy-lugner--abrechnung-mit-ex-mann-richard-lugner-21211450.html |url-status=live }} In July 2021, his relationship with Simone Reiländer was announced, to whom he became engaged in October. The engagement was broken off in December 2021,{{cite web |date=27 December 2021 |title=Richard »Mörtel« Lugner trennt sich von seiner Verlobten |url=https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/oesterreich-bauloewe-richard-lugner-und-verlobte-simone-reilaender-trennen-sich-a-bcc5efff-e604-4464-ae0a-b5e77a2fc460 |access-date=21 July 2024 |publisher=spiegel.de |archive-date=19 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230919061447/https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/oesterreich-bauloewe-richard-lugner-und-verlobte-simone-reilaender-trennen-sich-a-bcc5efff-e604-4464-ae0a-b5e77a2fc460 |url-status=live }} followed by reconciliation and marriage in June 2024.{{Cite web |last=Deutschland |first=RedaktionsNetzwerk |date=2 June 2024 |title=Richard Lugner heiratet Simone Reiländer |url=https://www.rnd.de/promis/richard-lugner-heiratet-simone-reilaender-KJNCTMGNCVLUNOI37RUEOHT5EQ.html |access-date=12 August 2024 |website=www.rnd.de |language=de |archive-date=12 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812153049/https://www.rnd.de/promis/richard-lugner-heiratet-simone-reilaender-KJNCTMGNCVLUNOI37RUEOHT5EQ.html |url-status=live }} When choosing a partner, Lugner often sought advice from astrologer Gerda Rogers.{{cite web |url=https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/richard-lugner-ueber-sein-verhaeltnis-zu-frauen-und-warum-er-ihnen-seine-karriere-verdankt-a-bcf31250-700a-46dc-a05d-37d3ab774e6b |title="Es gibt Frauen, die mich unbedingt wollen" |author=Anton Rainer, Nora Gantenbrink |date=12 November 2023 |publisher=spiegel.de |access-date=21 July 2024}}

In October 2019, Lugner unveiled his wax statue at the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Vienna.{{cite web |url=https://www.kleinezeitung.at/leute/5704385/Frack-Lackschuhe-und-Zylinder_Richard-Lugner-enthuellte-sein |title=Richard Lugner enthüllte sein Ebenbild bei Madame Tussauds |date=10 October 2019 |publisher=kleinezeitung.at |access-date=3 July 2024 |archive-date=19 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230919061447/https://www.kleinezeitung.at/leute/5704385/Frack-Lackschuhe-und-Zylinder_Richard-Lugner-enthuellte-sein |url-status=live }}

In 2016, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which he declared defeated after several months of radiotherapy in spring 2017.{{cite web |url=https://www.diepresse.com/5187824/richard-lugner-hat-den-krebs-besiegt |title=Richard Lugner hat den Krebs besiegt |author=Herbert Neubauer |date=16 January 2019 |publisher=diepresse.com |access-date=3 July 2024 |archive-date=15 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815031512/https://www.diepresse.com/5187824/richard-lugner-hat-den-krebs-besiegt |url-status=live }} After an injury during a vacation in the Maldives in 2020, he was diagnosed with skin cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.heute.at/s/richard-lugner-krebs-mortel-spricht-uber-gesundheit-51339076 |title=Krebsdiagnose – Sorge um Baulöwe Richard Lugner |date=13 September 2021 |publisher=heute.at |access-date=8 July 2024 |archive-date=29 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129150959/https://www.heute.at/s/richard-lugner-krebs-mortel-spricht-uber-gesundheit-51339076 |url-status=live }} He subsequently underwent surgery and was found to be cancer-free. The disease returned in 2021, which resulted in another operation.{{cite web |url=https://kurier.at/stars/austropromis/wieder-krebsdiagnose-fuer-richard-lugner/401222259 |title=Wieder Krebsdiagnose für Richard Lugner |author=Lisa Trompisch |date=18 March 2021 |publisher=kurier.at |access-date=8 July 2024 |archive-date=22 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231222152716/https://kurier.at/stars/austropromis/wieder-krebsdiagnose-fuer-richard-lugner/401222259 |url-status=live }} In July 2024, he had to undergo an emergency operation because of a leaky heart valve.{{cite web |url=https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000228766/richard-lugner-erfolgreich-am-herzen-operiert |title=Richard Lugner erfolgreich am Herzen operiert |date=17 July 2024 |publisher=standard.at |access-date=23 July 2024 |archive-date=23 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723091659/https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000228766/richard-lugner-erfolgreich-am-herzen-operiert |url-status=live }}

He was given the nickname "Mörtel" by Austrian tabloid journalist Michael Jeannée.{{cite web |url=https://www.fr.de/panorama/der-schuechterne-loewe-91842301.html |title=Der schüchterne Löwe |author=Boris Halva |date=10 October 2022 |publisher=fr.de |access-date=14 June 2024}}

Richard Lugner died in Vienna on 12 August 2024, at the age of 91.{{Cite web |last1=Smekal |first1=Caecilia |last2=Baldauf |first2=Michael |last3=Kainz |first3=Carina |last4=ORF.at |first4=alle |date=12 August 2024 |title=1932–2024: Richard Lugner ist tot |url=https://orf.at/stories/3101424/ |access-date=12 August 2024 |website=news.ORF.at |language=de |archive-date=12 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812094243/https://orf.at/stories/3101424/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Vienna Opera Ball stalwart Lugner dies aged 91 |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240812-vienna-opera-ball-stalwart-lugner-dies-aged-91 |access-date=16 August 2024 |work=France 24 |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=12 August 2024 |language=en}}

• 1987: Awarded the professional title of "Technischer Rat" by the Federal Ministry for Buildings and Technology{{cite web |url=https://www.tagblatt-wienerzeitung.at/_wzo_daten/media/Storytelling/bpw16/subsites/lugner.html |title="Ich würde für mehr Glamour in der Hofburg sorgen, denn die politische Macht des Bundespräsidenten ist äußerst begrenzt." |publisher=tagblatt-wienerzeitung.at |access-date=23 July 2024 |archive-date=23 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723074814/https://www.tagblatt-wienerzeitung.at/_wzo_daten/media/Storytelling/bpw16/subsites/lugner.html |url-status=live }}
• 1992: Awarded the Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the State of Vienna on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his company{{cite web |url=https://wiev1.orf.at/stories/227513 |title=75 Jahre, vier Ehen und 17 Ballgäste |date=11 October 2007 |publisher=wiev1.orf.at |access-date=23 July 2024 |archive-date=23 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723083450/https://wiev1.orf.at/stories/227513 |url-status=live }}
• 2024: Honorary member of the Villach Carnival Guild{{cite web |url=https://www.kleinezeitung.at/kaernten/villach/18061539/faschingsgilde-ehrt-baumeister-richard-lugner |title=Der Villacher Fasching hat einen neuen Ehren-Narren |author=Leonie Katholnig |date=3 February 2024 |publisher=kleinezeitung.at |access-date=23 July 2024 |archive-date=25 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240225073519/https://www.kleinezeitung.at/kaernten/villach/18061539/faschingsgilde-ehrt-baumeister-richard-lugner |url-status=live }}

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