Günter Fronius (11 November 1907 – 21 July 2015) was an Austrian entrepreneur and the founder of Fronius International GmbH.Fronius International: History
fronius.com; accessed 23 July 2017. He was born in

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(now Sibiu,

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), and obtained his

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degree from Breslau University of Technology in 1945.Profile
siebenbuerger.de; accessed 23 July 2017. A

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, Fronius holds the honorific professional title of ''Kommerzialrat'' for "long-standing Merit to the Republic of Austria". In 2007 he was presented with the '' Julius Raab Medal'', the highest Austrian award for

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, by Dr.

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, Governor of

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, on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Günter Fronius died in 2015, aged 107.Günter Fronius' obituary
derstandard.at; accessed 23 July 2017.

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