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Friedrich Alexander Maria "Fritz" Mandl (9 February 1900 – 8 September 1977) was chairman of Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik, a leading Austrian armaments firm founded by his father, Alexander Mandl. The Wöllersdorfer cartridge factory, from October 1933, the site of the holding camp Wöllersdorf.
To neutralize Mandl, British diplomats adroitly manipulated the FBI and the anti-Mandl faction of the State Department; these Americans in turn manipulated public and official opinion in the United States.
If Fritz Mandl is known to readers, it is most likely as Hedy Kiesler Lamarr's tyrannical first husband. But Mandl was much more than that—among other things, he was one of the wealthiest men in Europe as well as a major player in the munitions industry.
May 23, 2012 · In 1933, she married Friedrich Mandl, a wealthy Jewish arms manufacturer 13 years her senior who converted to Catholicism so he could do business with Nazi industrialists and other fascist...
Aug 23, 2013 · Friedrich Mandl was Austria ‘s leading arms maker. His firm would become a key supplier to the Nazis. Mandl used his beautiful young wife as a showpiece at important business dinners with representatives of the Austrian, Italian, and German fascist forces.
Apr 26, 2022 · Friedrich Mandl (9 February 1900, Vienna - 8 September 1977, Vienna) was chairman of Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik, a leading Austrian armaments firm founded by his father, Alexander Mandl. Mandl was a prominent fascist, but rather attached to the Austrofascism and Italian varieties than to Nazism.
Friedrich Mandl was chairman of Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik, a leading Austrian armaments firm founded by his father, Alexander Mandl.
Aug 6, 2016 · the end of World War II, Fritz Mandl of Buenos Aires was one of the era's best-known mystery men. An invet- erate pursuer of glamor and show girls, Mandl, a multimillionaire, had bought into a small Hollywood company, Gloria Pictures, and was an in- vestor in the fledgling Argentine film industry.
Her husband, the fabulously rich Austrian industrialist Friedrich Mandl, 33, was not impressed. But then, neither was she when he went on to make weapons for the Nazis.
Fritz Mandl was the scion of Austria’s pre-Anschluss Hirtenberg Arms factory. In Vienna of the 1920’s he acquired notoriety as a young viveur who gambled for high stakes, and...
