Richard Schenz

Richard Schenz   (businessman)
Born	25 January 1940 Vienna, Austria
Died	1 March 2023 (Age 83) Gießhübl, Austria
Nationality	Austrian
Alma mater	University of Technology Vienna
Member of	European Round Table of Industrialists
Austrian Bilderberger businessman

Dr. Richard Schenz was an Austrian Bilderberger businessman.

From 1992 to 2001 he was Chairman of the Board and General Director of the Austrian oil company ÖMV and from 2002 to 2012 Capital Market Officer of the Austrian Federal Government and the Ministry of Finance. From 2000 to 2022 he was Vice President of the Austrian Economic Chamber (WKO).

Education

Richard Schenz studied technical physics at the Vienna University of Technology (TH Vienna), graduating in 1964 as a graduate engineer. He wrote his diploma thesis in the field of nuclear physics at the Seibersdorf Reactor Center. From 1965 to 1967 he was a research assistant at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Solids in Vienna, in 1967 he received his doctorate at the TH Vienna, he wrote his dissertation in the field of deep temperature and solid state physics. In 1968 he was an assistant at the Institute of Applied Physics at the Technical University of Vienna.

Career

In 1969 he started at the Austrian Mineral Oil Administration (ÖMV) in the technical computer department, from 1971 he was engaged in production planning and refinery expansion. In 1979 he became the head of production planning, in 1985 he was appointed director. In 1988 he was appointed a member of the Management Board of ÖMV Aktiengesellschaft, where he was responsible for the areas of petroleum processing and petrochemistry. in 1990 he became Deputy Chairman of the Board and Deputy General Director, in 1992 he succeeded Siegfried Meysel as General Director and Chairman of the Board of ÖMV. In 2001, Schenz was replaced in this function by Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer. He then had a one-year consultant contract with ÖMV.

In 2002, at the suggestion of the Federal Ministry of Finance, he became the Government Commissioner for the Capital Market and Chairman of the Austrian Working Group on Corporate Governance. From 1992 to 2001 he also acted as head of the Petroleum Industry Association, from 1996 to 2002 he was president of the Vienna regional Group of the Industriellen-vereinigung. In 2000 he became Vice President of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, in 2001 President of International Chamber of Commerce Austria.

Other potions

From 2003 to 2008 he was a member of the University Council of the University of Leoben. Schenz was a member of the Supervisory Board of Feratel Media Technologies AG since 2003, and of BIOLUX GmbH and PEG MedAustron GmbH since 2007. in 2006/07 he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Bawag P.S.K. and from 2006 to 2011 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Swietelsky-Baugesellschaft.

From 2007 to 2012, he was chairman of the Quality Control Authority for Auditors and Audit Firms. In 2009 he became president of the Austrian-Arab Chamber of Commerce and in 2012 also president of the Austrian-Kazakh Society. In November 2015, he was elected president of the Austrian-Russian Friendship Society (ORFG) in succession to Ludwig Scharinger. From 2016 he was Austrian Government Commissioner for the World Exhibition in Astana 2017. In September 2020, Maximilian Christoph Habsburg-Lothringen succeeded him as President of the ORFG. Schenz and Vice President Christoph Matznetter left the ORFG in 2020 and founded the Forum in 2021 Austria-Russia, whose president became Schenz, Matznetter again became vice-president. In 2022, Wolfgang Hesoun succeeded him as Vice President of the WKO.

Death

Schenz died on March 1, 2023 at the age of 83.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1999	3 June 1999	6 June 1999	Portugal Sintra	The 47th Bilderberg, 111 participants

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