Franz Kleinbauer

Dr. Franz Kleinbauer is a co-founder and managing partner of Lohr + Company (branded "LC Tax"), an audit and tax-consulting group founded around 2001 with offices in Düsseldorf and Vienna. Alongside Prof. Dr. Jörg-Andreas Lohr, he is one of the two principals named in the firm's history; the firm today employs roughly 85 staff, including 45+ tax consultants, auditors, and lawyers across its locations. Kleinbauer leads the Austrian entity, Lohr + Co. GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungs- und Steuerberatungsgesellschaft, which has been licensed as an auditing and tax-consulting company under Austrian law since 2001.

He is qualified as a Wirtschaftsprüfer (certified public accountant) and Steuerberater (tax advisor) under Austrian law, and carries the Austrian academic titles MMag. and Dr. His documented professional expertise is in private foundations (Privatstiftungen), Austrian tax law, and cross-border/international tax, with the firm's Vienna practice serving wealthy families and private-foundation structures — including wealth-management reporting and controlling for high-net-worth clients.

His name and firm surface in angel-investing search results primarily because the firm ("LC Tax") advises startups and founders on taxation (a common service line for German/Austrian accounting firms), and because his email domain (lctax.de) appears in investor-contact aggregator databases. This is consistent with an advisor / private-capacity relationship to the startup ecosystem rather than a documented, active angel-investor practice.

• No publicly stated investment thesis, check size, or stage preference authored by Franz Kleinbauer could be located.
• Source-stub metadata (unverified) lists him as an angel investor focused on seed-stage rounds; treat this as a lead to confirm directly, not an established fact.
• His documented professional focus — private foundations, wealth structuring, and Austrian/international tax — suggests that any personal investing would most plausibly run through family-office / foundation vehicles and tax-advantaged structures rather than a named fund. This is inference from his role, not a confirmed strategy.