Rudolfine Steindling (September 10, 1934 – October 27, 2012 in Tel Aviv) was an Austrian manager and political activist with close ties to Communist organizations.
Novum bought high tech equipment in the West that stood on the embargo lists and could not be exported to Eastern Block countries.
Novum bought modern hard disk equipment in the US and passed it on to East Germany, pretending to need it for their Austrian factory.
[2] In November 2004 the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig ruled that the Novum assets, totaling €200 million, were the rightful property of the German government.
Since the 1990s, Steindling lived in Israel with her daughter Susanna as an influential socialite well-connected with the country's central fundraising organization Keren Hayesod[4] where she was co-chairwoman, Yad Vashem, Tel Hashomer, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.