Prof. Dr. h. c. Manfred Mautner Markhof

Managing Partner in
Mautner Markhof Industriebeteiligungs GmbH (Holding Company)

Curriculum Vitae

1949 entered in Family Business “Schwechat Brewery”

since 1958 Co-founder and Vice President of the Austrian Society for Foreign Politics and International Relations
since 1963 President of the Austrian American Society

1963 – 1967 Chairman of the EFTA (forerunner of the European Union)
- Brewery Industry Association

1972 – 1978 Chairman of the Managing Board of “Schwechat Brewery”
(since 2003 merged into the “Heineken” worldwide group of breweries)

1978 – 1988 President of the Vienna Industrial Federation

since 1988 Honorary President of the Vienna Industrial Federation

1983 – 1999 Member of the Austrian Parliament

Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Austrian Senate
Member of the European Council in Straßburg
since 1999 Honorary Member of the European Council in Straßburg

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Mautner Markhof AG
Chairman of Henkel Central Eastern Europe GmbH
Member of the Board of “Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde”, Vienna
Member of the Board of “Vienna Konzerthaus-Gesellschaft”
Founder President of World Wide Fund of Nature in Austria

Austrian Commissioner General for the World Exhibitions:
1963 in New York, 1967 in Montreal/ Canada, 1970 in Osaka/Japan and 1992 in Seville/Spain.
At the Expo 1992 in Seville, Spain, Chairman of the College of all the 104 Commissioner Generals

Honorary Degree , University of Redlands, California : Doctor of Human Letters
Professorship bestowed by the Federal President of Austria

national and international decorations

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