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Peter Fritz AO

  • PER-1
  • Person
  • 1943-

Peter Adalbert Robert George Fritz AM (born 4 January 1943)[1] is an Australian businessman and philanthropist. He was born in Arad, Romania and migrated to Australia in 1962. He has been Group Managing Director of the TCG Group of Companies since 1971 and Chairman of institute for active policy Global Access Partners[2] since 1997.

Peter is a co-founder of well over 100 companies and several business accelerators. TCG® is a group of innovative businesses which over the last 48 years have been at the forefront of Australian innovation. They produced many breakthrough discoveries in computer and communication technologies, data transmission, management structures and the food industry, including VOIP telephony (1998); design and manufacturing of plastic note sorting machines (1995); lottery ticket validation terminal (1988); mirror microwave communication technology and CT3 technology, first in the world (1986); BOW Memory unit for cash registers (1985); credit card validation system (pioneer technology in secure transmission) and MOX memory unit for building security (1984); low-cost fossil fuel power station simulator (1983); the first echo-free, hands-free telephone handset (1978); and online stock control system - the first real-time system in commercial use (1972).

Peter established and chaired the National Incubator Companies Board (ATP) between 1992 and 1997 and co-founded the Joint Technology Partners incubator – a significant investor in Australian technology start-ups.

In 1993, some of the 65 companies in the TCG Group were publicly floated on the Australian Stock Exchange as TechComm Group Limited, later renamed Utility Computer Services (UXC). In 2016, UXC was acquired by CSC for $430 million. Another former TCG company floated on the New York Stock Exchange in November 1997 for US$600m (AU$1 billion), making it the largest technology company to be established in Australia until that time. Today the TCG companies, and entities with TCG roots, employ well over 6000 people with a turnover in excess of $1.5 billion annually.

Peter's innovative management style and corporate structuring has led to the creation of a business model which is being copied by many successful entrepreneurs, and has become part of university undergraduate and masters programs in business management in Australia and around the world.

Peter holds six degrees or professional qualifications, is an adjunct professor at the University of Technology Sydney and an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering 1998. He is a fellow of the Australian Computer Society, the Institute of Engineers Australia, and the Australian Society of Accountants. His many awards include The Order of Australia in 1993 and the UTS Alumni Award for Excellence 2010. His books include 'The Possible Dream' (Penguin 1988),[3] 'Beyond "Yes"' (Harper Collins 1998),[4] "The Profit Principle" co-authored by Jeanne-Vida Douglas (John Wiley and Sons 2010)[5] and "Managing for Change" co-authored by Brad Howarth (TCG Publications 2014).[6]

Peter chairs the Australian Government Consultative Committee on Knowledge Capital[7][8] and serves on a number of private enterprise boards.[9] He represented Australia on the OECD Small Medium Size Enterprise committee and in other OECD forums.[10]

Peter Fritz is a Member of the Board of the Global Panel Foundation - Australasia - a respected non-government organisation (with offices and satellites in Berlin, Copenhagen, New York, Prague, Sydney and Toronto) that works behind the scenes in crisis areas around the world. The current Australasia Chair is the Rt. Hon. Don McKinnon, former Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and Commonwealth Secretary General, and the Vice Chair is Hon. Philip Ruddock.

Peter co-chaired the government-commissioned Working Group on Education and Training in Philanthropy and Social Investment (2007–2008) which led to the establishment of the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) in 2008, a national centre for philanthropy and social investment, with an Australian Government endowment of $12.4 million.[11] The CSI is a joint collaboration between the business schools of the University of New South Wales, Melbourne Business School, Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Western Australia and provides managerial education, executive support and research for the not-for-profit sector.

Peter was instrumental in the establishment of the OECD Working Group on SMEs (1993), Society for Knowledge Economics (2005), Australian Society for Progress and Wellbeing (2014), National Small Business Centre (1992), International Institute for Negotiation and Conflict Management (1996), and many others.

Peter is a regular blogger on the issues of innovation and entrepreneurship on Open Forum (Australia).[15] He is currently collaborating with privacy expert Malcolm Crompton and author Brad Howarth on a new book “A Vision for an Innovative Australia” based on interviews with eminent Australian and international thought leaders. The book explores what Australia’s core competencies are and is relevant for any government long-term planning.

References
Who's Who in Business in Australia, January – June 2005, Volume I – Biographies, Page 261 http://www.globalaccesspartners.org/contact.html http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2080318 http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3291620 http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4925431 https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6541219 http://www.theage.com.au/news/Management-Focus/Accounting-for-the-uncountable/2005/02/14/1108229910079.html http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/annualreport04-05/chapter06_05.html http://www.nblf.com.au/about-nblf/forum-steering-committee/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kYLqigUA60UJ:www.insme.org/documenti/mm-Malmo-Final-25-Feb-04.ppt+OECD+peter+fritz&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&client=firefox-a
Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Business and Enterprise Annual Report 2007, http://www.swinburne.edu.au/business/documents/faculty/FBEAnnualReport2007.pdf

Footnote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fritz

Perl

  • PER-537
  • Person
  • -

Pal Montagh

  • PER-63
  • Person
  • 1898-1967
  • Son of Jozsef Montag and Olga Montag.
  • Married Magdolna Horváth. She was a Christian, and the daughter of a High Court
    Judge, apart from her beauty she never had any money.
  • Pal Montagh established the tobacco industry in Hungary. Growing tobacco on his
    estates at Mako.
  • Pál Montágh had a daughter Maria Montagh who became Mrs Nicsovics.7
  • Aunty Hortense Schweiger tried to influence Stefanie Schweiger (Gyuláné Wellisch)
    to leave the more valuable house in her will to Pál Montágh, which would then be
    inherited by his daughter Maria.

Footnote: https://fritzfamilyarchive.com/index.php/apus-family-history

Olga Schweiger

  • PER-59
  • Person
  • 1867-1937
  • Married to József Montágh, lived in Maria Valéria utca 1.
  • She had three sister, Stefanie Schweiger (Wellisch Gyuláné), Hortense Schweiger
    (Zombori Stein), Gisella Schweiger (Gizi néni) and Irma Schweiger. None of them
    had any children.
  • Mother of Tibor Montagh, Pal Montagh, Lilly Montagh and Ada "Dolly" Montagh
  • During the war the German Army Headquarters moved into the building on Maria
    Valéria utca. When the German Army moved out the Russian Army moved in, there
    was a fire and the whole building burnt down to the ground.
  • In this house, on the first floor, also lived Stefanie Schweiger (Wellisch Gyuláné)
    and Forrai Dezső and his family. On the other floors all the family members had
    their own apartments to live in when they came to Budapest.
  • Olga Schweiger (Montágh Józsefné) had some beautiful jewellery. For example a
    pair of 4 carat diamond earrings. One was left to Kato the other one was left to Éva
    Forrai, who was killed by the Nazi’s.
  • Apu saw Olga Schweiger last in 1936, when she came down to Arad. She was a
    beautiful elderly lady. The László Fülöp painting of Olga Schweiger which Apu
    bought from the relatives when visiting Budapest is now in Sydney.

Footnote: https://fritzfamilyarchive.com/index.php/apus-family-history

Nina Herz

  • PER-56
  • Person
  • -1924

N Luczatta

  • PER-354
  • Person
  • 1873-

n. david

  • PER-488
  • Person
  • -

Moricz Fritz

  • PER-10
  • Person
  • 1852-?
  • Apu’s paternal grandfather
  • He lived in Demend, Demandice, Slovakia
  • He married Rozalia Wertheimer
  • Had five children three boys two girls family
  • Father of Adalbert Fritz, Zsigmond Fritz, Rozalia Fritz and two other children
  • He had an elder brother, they had a misunderstanding and the brother moved to
    Ráczalmás
  • Apu did not know them, but Imre Ferry (Imre Fritz Apu’s cousin) told him about
    them.
  • Apu’s grandparents (Fritz) went bankrupt.
  • They moved to the USA in 1889 and returned in 1902
  • Apu’s grandparents, father and his sister, who were married by then, and her two
    children, immigrated to America (see group photo of that time) but came back in
    early 1900 to Arad. Apu doesn’t know why.

Footnote: https://fritzfamilyarchive.com/index.php/apus-family-history

Mòr Montag

  • PER-125
  • Person
  • 1829-1898
  • Although the Montagh family had land in Kanak (now Rumania) the Montagh
    fortune was built by Mor Montag.
  • Lipot Montag was Mor’s father.
  • Mor escaped with the rest of the family to Szeged / Mako.
  • He had 12 children. Each had its own trade. One was an accountant, the other a
    solicitor and so on, thus the family’s business was taken care of from within the
    family.
  • He had an estate of 12 thousand kataszter hold (1 kataszter hold is 5755 m2) and
    he rented a further 14 thousand.
  • He must have been a formidable individual. Not only because of the fortune he built
    but also because of his civic contribution: after the floods of Szeged he organized
    the rebuilding of the town using his own money. The painting made of him
    (http://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000001211818683?album_type=photos_of_
    me&photo_id=6000000027748094873&position=0) was a gift of the grateful
    citizenry.
  • When he died every son received 1000 kataszter hold.
  • Mor Montag, when in Budapest, lived at 4 Andrassy ut and the family office was at 2
    Andrassy ut.

Footnote: https://fritzfamilyarchive.com/index.php/apus-family-history

Marie Kohn

  • PER-231
  • Person
  • 1876-
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