Hellmuth Swietelsky (23 March 1905 in
Traiskirchen
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; 23 February 1995 in
Zell am See
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) was an Austrian businessman and founder of the construction company .
Swietelsky was born in Traiskirchen (
Lower Austria
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) in 23 March 1905. In 1936 he founded the company Swietelsky in
Gmunden.
In 1978 the
University of Vienna
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awarded him the title ''Honorary senator of the University of Vienna'' (German: ''Ehrensenatoren der Technischen Universität Wien'').
He was also an honorary president of the ''Austrian society of street construction'' and was a founding member of the
ÖAMTC, an Austrian automobile club.
References
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1905 births
1995 deaths
20th-century Austrian businesspeople