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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, 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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Wienerberger is the 73rd most popular engineer (down from 54th in 2019), the 331st most popular biography from Austria (down from 285th 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 73 out of 389. Before him are Charles George Gordon, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Hidesaburō Ueno, Jack Parsons, Arthur Scherbius, and Moshe Arens. After him are Viktor Belenko, Marcel Dassault, Walter Dornberger, Józef Bem, Nikolay Zhukovsky, and Adrian Newey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 48. Before him are Arthur Drewry, Max Amann, Grant Wood, Yevhen Konovalets, Bronislava Nijinska, and Michael Polanyi. After him are Cole Porter, Pier Luigi Nervi, Anton Dostler, Hu Shih, Kurt von Tippelskirch, and Jacques Lipchitz. Among people deceased in 1955, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 43. Before him are Alexandros Papagos, Yves Tanguy, Garegin Nzhdeh, Archie Hahn, Princess Clémentine of Belgium, and Eugène Joseph Delporte. After him are Otto Braun, Léon Werth, Theda Bara, Max Pechstein, Alfréd Hajós, and Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Alexander Wienerberger ranks 331 out of 1,424. Before him are Joseph Mohr (1792), Fritjof Capra (1939), Martin Weinek (1964), Robert Adler (1913), Rudolf Hilferding (1877), and Erich Kleiber (1890). After him are Adam Albert von Neipperg (1775), Jean Améry (1912), Othenio Abel (1875), Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria (1801), Felix Baumgartner (1969), and Joe Zawinul (1932).

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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), Hans Moravec (1948), and Erwin Komenda (1904).

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