Peter Mitterbauer

Peter Mitterbauer (born November 14, 1942 in Laakirchen , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian entrepreneur. From 1986 to 2013 he was CEO of Miba AG and from 1996 to 2004 President of the Federation of Austrian Industries .

Life

After finishing secondary school, Peter Mitterbauer studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna and Graz , graduating in 1967 from the Vienna University of Technology. He then went to the United States for a postgraduate course and internship . In 1969 he joined the company founded by his father Franz Mitterbauer in 1927, where he initially headed overall sales and managed several associated companies. In 1973 he was appointed to the executive board and in 1986 he became CEO of Miba AG . In 2013 he handed over the chairmanship of Miba AG to his son Franz-Peter Mitterbauer.

From 1988 to 1996 he acted as President of the Upper Austria Regional Group of the Federation of Industrialists , then as President of the federal organization in succession to Heinz Kessler. In 2004, he was replaced by Veit Sorger in this position. From 1990 to 1996 he was also Vice President of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce , from 2001 to 2004 Vice President of the Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederation of Europe (UNICE), later Businesseurope . From 2006, he succeeded Alfred Heinzel as chairman of the supervisory board of Österreichische Industrieholding AG (ÖIAG), and in 2014 he was replaced by Siegfried Wolf . Peter Mitterbauer was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Higher Studies (IHS). His daughter Therese Niss also works for Miba AG.

Awards (selection)

• 2003: Golden Commander's Cross of Honor for Services to the Federal State of Lower Austria
• 2005: Honorary doctorate from the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
• 2005: Honorary doctorate from the Graz University of Technology
• 2017: Honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology
• 2018: Golden badge of honor from the Austrian Chamber of Commerce

Web links

• Entry on Peter Mitterbauer in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Peter Mitterbauer on the website of Forum Alpbach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on Peter Mitterbauer in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology for Dipl. Ing. Peter Mitterbauer . Article dated May 23, 2017, accessed October 22, 2017.
3. ↑ Union catalog: Order management . Diploma thesis 1969, TU Vienna.
4. ↑ ^{a b} DI Dr.hc Peter Mitterbauer | FFG . Retrieved October 22, 2017.
5. ↑ Upper Austrian news: The Mitterbauer family takes Miba off the stock exchange . Article dated July 14, 2015, accessed October 22, 2017.
6. ↑ New head minder for ÖIAG: Siegfried Wolf replaces Peter Mitterbauer. In: Nachrichten.at, June 27, 2014, accessed on November 21, 2014.
7. ↑ diepresse.com: Niss: "The young people let themselves be too much" . Article dated December 17, 2011, accessed October 22, 2017.
8. ↑ Golden Commander's Cross for Dipl. Ing. Peter Mitterbauer . Lower Austrian correspondence dated February 12, 2003, accessed on October 22, 2017.
9. ↑ anniversary conference 240 years Vet.Med.Uni Vienna . Article dated March 24, 2005, accessed October 22, 2017.
10. ^ Oberbank: CV Peter Mitterbauer . Retrieved October 22, 2017.
11. ^ Golden badge of honor from the Chamber of Commerce for Peter Mitterbauer and Veit Sorger . OTS announcement from January 16, 2018, accessed on January 16, 2018.