Günter Fronius is an entrepreneur and the founder of Fronius International GmbH

Fronius International GmbH

Fronius International GmbH is an Austrian company, based in Pettenbach, Upper Austria. Fronius is active in the fields of battery charging systems, welding technology and solar electronics.- Formation and development :...

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Fronius was born in Hermannstadt

Sibiu

Sibiu is a city in Transylvania, Romania with a population of 154,548. Located some 282 km north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the river Olt...

, Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...

 (now Sibiu, Romania

Romania

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), and obtained his engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 degree from Wroclaw University of Technology

Wroclaw University of Technology

Wrocław University of Technology is an autonomous technical university in Wrocław, Poland. With buildings dispersed throughout the city, its main facilities are gathered at a central location near Plac Grunwaldzki, alongside the Oder River...

 in 1945.

A Transylvanian Saxon, Fronius holds the honorific professional title of Kommerzialrat:de:Kommerzialrat for "long-standing Merit to the Republic of Austria". In 2007, he was presented with the Julius Raab

Julius Raab

Julius Raab was a Conservative Austrian politician. He was Federal Chancellor of Austria from 1953 to 1961. Raab steered Allied-occupied Austria to independence. In 1955 he negotiated and signed the Austrian State Treaty...

 Medal, the highest Austrian

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 award for economics

Economics

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, by Dr. Josef Pühringer, Governor of Upper Austria

Upper Austria

Upper Austria is one of the nine states or Bundesländer of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders on Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as on the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg...

, on occasion of his 100th birthday.