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Alexander Wienerberger

1891 - 1955

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Alexander Wienerberger (December 8, 1891 – January 5, 1955) was an Austrian chemical engineer and right wing nationalist, who worked for 19 years in the chemical industry of the Soviet Union. While he worked in Kharkiv, he created a series of photographs of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, which serves as photographic evidence of the mass starvation of the Soviet Ukrainian people at that time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Wienerberger has received more than 38,359 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Wienerberger is the 54th most popular engineer (down from 39th in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Austria (down from 235th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Engineer.

Alexander Wienerberger is most famous for being the founder of the company that bears his name, Wienerberger. He started the company in 1885, and it is now one of the world's leading producers of building materials.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 54 out of 389. Before him are John Ambrose Fleming, Arthur Scherbius, Godfrey Hounsfield, Gustaf de Laval, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, and Charles George Gordon. After him are Bjarne Stroustrup, Viktor Belenko, Masaru Ibuka, Loránd Eötvös, Henry Gantt, and Immanuel Nobel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 36. Before him are Grant Wood, Frank Costello, Michael Chekhov, Antonio Segni, Ole Kirk Christiansen, and Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis. After him are Hans Reichenbach, Yevhen Konovalets, Arthur Drewry, Max Amann, Moïse Kisling, and Michael Polanyi. Among people deceased in 1955, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 36. Before him are Vasily Blokhin, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Princess Clémentine of Belgium, and Cordell Hull. After him are John Mott, Alexandros Papagos, Yves Tanguy, Theda Bara, Henri Delaunay, and Emmett Till.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 285 out of 1,424. Before him are Gaston Glock (1929), Paul Watzlawick (1921), Maria Leopoldine of Austria (1632), Oskar Werner (1922), Guido von List (1848), and Baron Alexander von Bach (1813). After him are Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), Kunigunde of Austria (1465), Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (1534), Felix Baumgartner (1969), Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432), and Georg von Peuerbach (1423).

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Among ENGINEERS In Austria

Among engineers born in Austria, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 2. Before him are Hermann Oberth (1894). After him are Hans Ledwinka (1878), Viktor Kaplan (1876), Carlo Abarth (1908), Aurel Vlaicu (1882), Hanns Hörbiger (1867), Béla Barényi (1907), Erwin Komenda (1904), and Hans Moravec (1948).

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