Veit Sorger

Veit Sorger (born June 10, 1942 in Graz ) was President of the Federation of Austrian Industries from 2004 to 2012 .

Life

He received his education through studies at the law faculties of the universities in Vienna and Graz, at the University of Uppsala (Dr. iur.) And at the University of World Trade in Vienna .

From 1967 to 1970 he worked in the insurance industry (Interunfall AG) as assistant to the general director. In 1970 he entered the paper industry with the Salzer Group. From 1982 to 1987 he was the sole director of the Salzer paper and plastics group. Since 1987 he has been the managing director of Europapier AG and has been a board member of Frantschach AG since 1988. In 1989 he became deputy chairman of the board of Frantschach AG. Since 1993 he has been CEO of Frantschach AG and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Neusiedler AG (now both Mondi AG). Since 2005 he has been formally Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Mondi Packaging AG & Mondi Business Paper Holding AG (formerly Frantschach AG and Neusiedler AG).

In July 2011 he was appointed a new member of the University Council of the Technical University of Vienna by the Austrian Federal Government. From 2018 to 2023 he is Chairman of the University Council of the Vienna University of Technology .

He also took on the role of President of the Association of Austrian Private Foundations , and in 2019 Cattina Leitner succeeded him.

Private

Veit Sorger is married and has three children.

Awards

• 2002: Great Silver Medal of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2011: Honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology
• 2018: Golden badge of honor from the Austrian Chamber of Commerce

Web links

• Literature by and about Veit Sorger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Veit Sorger in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New President wants to organize IV “more offensively” . in: Die Presse from June 21, 2012
2. ↑ derStandard.at: University councils are almost complete now . Article dated April 30, 2018, accessed May 2, 2018.
3. ^ University Council TU Wien ( Memento from May 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 3, 2018.
4. ^ Association of Austrian Private Foundations renews its board . OTS notification dated April 11, 2019, accessed April 20, 2019.
5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
6. ^ TU Wien: Honorary doctorates ( Memento from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved March 26, 2015.
7. ^ 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.