Norberto Odebrecht is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian engineer, businessman and founder of the Brazilian Odebrecht Foundation

Odebrecht Foundation

The Odebrecht Foundation was created by Norberto Odebrecht, a Brazilian engineer and businessman who in 1944 founded the Odebrecht company, in order to provide company members benefits that the Brazilian Social Security system either did not provide or only could cover partially from 1965.In 1988...

 (Portuguese

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: Fundação Odebrecht).

He studied at the Polytechnic

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 School of Bahia

Bahia

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 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

Germany

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 geodetical

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 engineer and cartographer, who emigrated to Brazil in 1856. Today, the company has become an international conglomerate

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and employs more than 125,000 people in 50 countries around the globe.