Gerhard Andlinger

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Gerhard "Gerry" Rudolf Andlinger (born January 17, 1931 in Linz ; † December 22, 2017 in New York ) was an Austro-American entrepreneur and billionaire .

Life

Andlinger was the son of an Upper Austrian postal worker and a Czech mother. He traveled to the United States for the first time in 1948 as the winner of an essay competition by the “New York Herald Tribune” . At the age of 19, Andlinger left Austria to study economics and Arabic from 1950 to 1952 on a scholarship at Princeton University . From 1952 to 1954 he studied at Harvard Business School , where he graduated with an MBA .

He completed his service in the US Army and then began his professional career at McKinsey & Company , soon moving to ITT , where in 1962 he headed planning and organization. In 1976 Andlinger founded his own company, the investment house Andlinger & Company, which he expanded into a billion-dollar group with more than 100 companies and many thousands of employees on all five continents.

In 2005 Andlinger and partners founded the Salzburg Festival Society (SFS), which brings together American friends and supporters of the Salzburg Festival . The SFS takes care of the mediation of classical music and finances opera productions of the Salzburg Festival. As a patron of the Salzburg Festival, Andlinger donated 1.8 million euros for the construction of the “Salzburg backdrop” on the House for Mozart, which opened in 2006, and one million US dollars for Nikolaus Harnoncourt's last opera project at the festival, Mozart's Magic Flute on original instruments 2012.

In 2008, Andlinger donated $ 100 million to Princeton University in gratitude and to give back to the university and the land that made so much possible for him. With the donation, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment was founded within the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Gerhard Andlinger was also committed to the American Austrian Foundation , whose aim is to promote international understanding between Austria and the USA through programs in medicine, music, the visual arts, diplomacy and the media.

From the 1980s, Andlinger lived again mostly in Burgau am Attersee in Austria in his villa on a plot of approximately 29,000 square meters. Shortly before his death, the property was sold for a rumored sum of 18 million euros.

After he had obtained US citizenship after completing his military service in the US Army in 1955 and thus lost Austrian, the then Salzburg Governor Franz Schausberger presented him with the decree to regain Austrian citizenship in 2002 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andlinger, Gerhard Rudolf. In: Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration. Harvard University, Cambridge Mass. 1954, p. 121.
  2. ↑ Billionaire Andlinger sold Attersee property shortly before death. derStandard.at , January 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ http://www.orf.at/#/stories/2421152/
  4. ↑ Slate 60: Donor Bios: The largest American charitable contributions of the year. , Slate , January 23, 2009
  5. ↑ Gift of $ 100 million to transform energy and environment research at princeton , acee.princeton.edu, August 1, 2008
  6. ↑ a b c Shortly before his death: Billionaire Andlinger sells property on the Attersee for 18 million euros , accessed on January 3, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Andlinger, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andlinger, Gerhard Rudolf (full name); Andlinger, Gerry (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American entrepreneur and billionaire
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 2017
Place of death new York