Günter Fronius

Günter Fronius (11 November 1907 – 21 July 2015) was an Austrian entrepreneur and the founder of Fronius International GmbH.

[1] He was born in Hermannstadt, Austria-Hungary (now Sibiu, Romania), and obtained his engineering degree from Breslau University of Technology in 1945.

[2] A Transylvanian Saxon, Fronius holds the honorific professional title of Kommerzialrat for "long-standing Merit to the Republic of Austria".

[2] In 2007 he was presented with the Julius Raab Medal, the highest Austrian award for economics, by Dr. Josef Pühringer, Governor of Upper Austria, on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

[3] This business-related Austrian biographical article is a stub.