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Friedrich Mandl was an Austrian armaments manufacturer and a fascist politician. He was married five times, including to actress Hedy Lamarr, and fled to Switzerland and Argentina during World War II.
- The Emergence of Fritz Mandl
- The Argentine Menace and Its Ramifications
- Arms in The Postwar Era
- The Later History of Fritz Mandl
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Fritz Mandl was a child of the century. He was born in 1900 to the arms trade, the family-owned Hirtenbergwerke in Lower Austria. In Austria’s post-World War I disorganization, the arms plant went bankrupt and his father, Alexander, lost control. However, under bank supervision, young Fritz became the firm’s managing director; he later regained pos...
The military coup of June 4, 1943, that overthrew Ramón Castillo’s civilian regime, unsettled the policy lines of the Allied missions in Buenos Aires; the British and North Americans reacted very differently. So long as Great Britain’s investments remained unthreatened and her access to foodstuffs and materials of war open, Whitehall viewed Argenti...
In Washington, the State Department had taken the initiative as early as the fall of 1943 in proposing to the War and Navy Departments a “truly Inter-American foundation” for postwar multilateral hemispheric agreements: these would permit the United States to play “an important role in that defense to which its resources and world responsibilities ...
Postwar investigators in Western Europe and the Americas could find no new evidence derogatory to Mandl.104 Although his name did not appear in the State Department’s Blue Book of February 1946, he remained blacklisted. In reply to a query from Representative Baldwin, Braden wrote that “Mandl’s case unfortunately is one of the worst in Argentina”10...
Fritz Mandl was a wealthy Austrian-born Argentine businessman who was accused of being a Nazi agent and a "Merchant of Death" by the North American press during World War II. The article examines the sources and motives of the smear campaign, and the legal challenges he faced in Britain and the US.
- Ronald C. Newton
- 1986
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.
Sep 8, 2023 · 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.
Hedy Lamarr, a Hollywood star, and George Antheil, a composer, invented a frequency-hopping system to guide torpedoes during World War II. They married in 1933, but divorced in 1940 after Lamarr escaped from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, a wealthy arms manufacturer.
During that same year, Lamarr met her first husband, a wealthy 33-year-old Austrian arms dealer and manufacturer called Friedrich Mandl. Lamarr’s parents, both of Jewish descent, disapproved of the union mainly due to Mandl’s strong fascist views and ties with Mussolini and Hitler, both of whom were reported to have attended parties hosted ...
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Fritz Mandl was the chairman of a leading Austrian armaments firm and the husband of actress Hedy Lamarr. He was a prominent fascist who opposed Nazism and fled to Argentina after the Anschluss, where he became a film producer and advisor to Juan Perón.
