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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 33,949 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Wienerberger is the 40th most popular engineer (up from 57th in 2019), the 235th most popular biography from Austria (up from 282nd in 2019) and the 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 40 out of 323. Before him are Felix Wankel, Pavel Sukhoi, Howard H. Aiken, Godfrey Hounsfield, Anthony Fokker, and John Ambrose Fleming. After him are Ildefons Cerdà, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Sergey Ilyushin, Ernst Heinkel, Emil Škoda, and Banū Mūsā.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 32. Before him are Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Edward Bernays, Fumimaro Konoe, Osip Mandelstam, Ole Kirk Christiansen, and Frank Costello. After him are Michael Chekhov, Pier Luigi Nervi, Cole Porter, Hans Reichenbach, Max Amann, and Otto Rasch. Among people deceased in 1955, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 32. Before him are Pak Hon-yong, John Mott, Cordell Hull, Leonid Govorov, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, and Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh. After him are Michael Chekhov, Mihály Károlyi, Yves Tanguy, Garegin Nzhdeh, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, and Princess Clémentine of Belgium.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 235 out of 1,237. Before him are Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (1893), Otto Rank (1884), Roland Ratzenberger (1960), Falco (1957), and Klaus Ebner (1964). After him are Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1892), Bruno Kreisky (1911), Karl Seitz (1869), Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1762), Paul Lazarsfeld (1901), and Walter Nowotny (1920).

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Among ENGINEERS In Austria

Among engineers born in Austria, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 1. After him are Hans Ledwinka (1878), Viktor Kaplan (1876), Aurel Vlaicu (1882), Carlo Abarth (1908), Béla Barényi (1907), and Hans Moravec (1948).

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