Norberto Odebrecht

Norberto Odebrecht in 2010

Norberto Odebrecht (9 October 1920 – 19 July 2014) was a Brazilian engineer, businessman and founder of the Brazilian Odebrecht Foundation (Portuguese: Fundação Odebrecht).[1]

Born in Recife, he studied at the Polytechnic School of Bahia and in 1944 he founded a construction company from which the Odebrecht Group in Salvador da Bahia was created. He was the son of the pioneer Emílio Odebrecht, Sr. and a grandson of Emil Odebrecht, a German geodetical engineer and cartographer, who emigrated to Brazil in 1856. Today, the company has become an international conglomerate and employs more than 167,500 people in over 60 countries around the globe.

In 1991, he passed the presidency of Odebrecht to his son Emílio Odebrecht, and remained as chairman.[2]

Odebrecht died on 19 July 2014, aged 93, in Salvador, Bahia.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Odebrecht informs: Norberto Odebrecht, the Founder retrieved 22 August 2011
  2. ↑ "History". Odebrecht.
  3. ↑ "Founder of Latin American engineering giant Odebrecht dies". BBC News. July 20, 2014. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
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