Norberto Odebrecht
Engineer, Person
1920 –
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Who is Norberto Odebrecht?
Norberto Odebrecht is a Brazilian engineer, businessman and founder of the Brazilian Odebrecht Foundation.
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 is the son of the pioneer Emílio Odebrecht, who was 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.
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- Born
- Oct 9, 1920
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- Brazil
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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