Mario H. Gottfried Gutiérrez

Mario Héctor Gottfried Gutiérrez (September 7, 1919 and Potencia Industrial, S.A.

Early years His father, Enrique Guillermo Gottfried Zender, born in Peru to American parents, was an electrical engineer who had come to Mexico City in 1910 with the Westinghouse Company from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1918, he married Maria Gutiérrez Zertuche, a Mexican citizen, whose parents and grandparents were officers of the Mexican Army.

During his early years, Mario Gottfried attended the American School in Mexico City. Later, his father was offered a job in the German Siemens Electrical Company in the US, and the family moved in 1926 to New York City, where he grew up until the age of twenty-one.

Military career

In 1940, while attending Pratt Institute of Technology in New York, he applied to enter the USA Army Air Corps. His brother, Gustavo C. Gottfried, also ex-aviator of World War II, joined them. According to various publications, is "the first Mexican wind turbine, besides being a global pioneer in permanent magnet direct drive generators." By 1980, close to 600 units were exported to the United States and Canada.

The company, led by Mario Gottfried, continued to thrive in their operations until 1982, when the initial achievements were threatened by a severe financial crisis in Mexico that affected the industrial sector, which became even more acute with the process of economic aperture in 1988. The company manages to survive and in the early nineties continued to push ahead with manufacturing innovations, and celebrating contracts with recognized companies, such as Electric Products Company of Cleveland, Ohio; Louis Allis Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin;

Mario H. Gottfried had 4 children. Mario Héctor, María Elena, Carlos Federico and Martha Cecilia. One of them, Carlos Gottfried Joy, is now president of Potencia Industrial, S.A.

Military awards In 1943 he receives Air medal and Distinguished Flying Cross at the Elmendorf AFB, Alaska.