Rudolf Hruska

Engineer, Deceased Person

1915 – 1995

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Who was Rudolf Hruska?

Rudolf Hruska was an Austrian automobile designer and engineer, most famous for his design of various Alfa Romeo cars.

After graduating Vienna University of Technology he worked for Magirus in Ulm and Porsche in Stuttgart, developing the Kdf-Wagen and Tiger I tank. In Meran he and Carlo Abarth established a Porsche dealership, and shortly after joined Piero Dusio in the Turin-based Cisitalia racing car project. Hruska joined Finmeccanica, consulting on the Alfa Romeo 1900. At Alfa Romeo he assisted Orazio Satta Puliga in the Alfa Romeo Giulietta, before joining Simca and Fiat, working on the Simca 1000 and Fiat 124/Fiat 128. Hruska then designed the Alfa Romeo Alfasud and established a new plant in Pomigliano d'Arco near Naples. Since then he was in a design firm in Arese and at I.DE.A Institute in Turin.

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Born
Jul 2, 1915
Vienna
Nationality
  • Austria
Profession
Education
  • Vienna University of Technology
Lived in
  • Vienna
Died
Dec 4, 1995
Turin

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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