Mauro Livio Jose Herlitzka

Engineer Mauro L.J. Herlitzka was born in Turin ( Italy) on March 19 , 1908 and inmediately on May 14 he arrives from Genoa on the ship Regina Elena with his parents to Buenos Aires, named as his father, his second name Livio as his uncle and Jose ( Giuseppe) as he was born the day of Saint Joseph.

 He studied at the Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza and at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, he later obtained his title of industrial engineer at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.  During his studying period and as postgraduate , from 1928 to 1931, he attended to several courses of administration of electric power plants and public utilities at the National Electric Light Association innthe USA and he did courses at the commercial and finances department at the Electric Bond and Share Co ( EBASCO) in New York.  Also he studied the organization of the telephone systems in Sweden and Germany in 1930 , here under the direction of Dr. Krucow.

 He was fluent in several languages as spanish, english, french and italian.  In several opportunities he lectured and published articles on technicaland finance matters at the Centro Argentino de Ingenieros , Tecnicor, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, and published several articles for magazines as La Ingeniería, Tecnica e Industrias, etc.  He started his professional career at the direction of the commercial and new installations department at the recent created Compañía Argentina de Teléfonos, Compañía Entrerriana de Telefonos and beign board member of the Compañía Santafecina de Teléfonos.  

Afterwards in 1935, he was a founder associate, director and then vice president of the Corporacion Sud Americana de Servicios Aéreos, establishing at that moment the first international argentine flying company, doing the flying services between the cities along the Parana river using seaplanes of italian origin ( Macchi). Between 1937 and 1938 he participated by the Argentine side in the constitution of the first transoceanic italian flying line Ala Littoria, in colaboration with Gral. Pellegrini and Eng. Venturini, he left in 1938, lately this company was expropriated by the argentine government and gave birth to Aerolineas Argentinas.
In 1940 he was founder of Algodonera Argentina del Plata, later Algodonera Temperley, a textile industry producing cotton yarn, and later he became president. At the early 1940’s he introduced for the first time in the country an aluminum dye casting foundry with swiss associates under the name of Inyecta Argentina, that he presided too. A real estate investor he created and presided Compañía General de Bienes Raíces y Muebles.
In 1947 he created a presided Compañía Sudamericana de Cosntrucciones ( CORSAR), dedicated to expand electric power plants as the expansion of the super electrical power plantt of the Italo in Puerto Nuevo in Buenos Aires ( 1949) , industrial factories, buildings amd structural construction projects. He was founder and member of the Papelera Pedotti, a paper factory..
From the mid 1930’s he was interested in agriculture and cattle farming at the south of Cordoba Province in Argentina at his 14.000 hectares estancia La Sofia, created with his father engineer Mauro Herlitzka. Also related with the agriculture and farm business he participated in other companies as Granos Argentinos amd later Agroital, that he was cofounder dedicated to cereal trading with several plants in the country side.
In the decade of 1960 he became a board member as he was already a shareholder of the Banco de Italia y Rio de la Plata, one of the two major private banks in Argentina in that time, and also he was foumder and board member of other financial companies as Italcredit , Solvencia insurance company, among others.

He actively participatedas member of professional asociations as: Centro Argentino de Ingenieros ( he was a benemerital menber) , Consejo Profesional de Ingeniería Industrial, Sociedad Argentina para el Progreso de la Ciencia , Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires, Sociedad Rural Argentina. And of sport clubs as : Jockey Club de Buenos Aires, Automovil Club Argentino,, Circolo Italiano, Club Canottieri Italiani, Yacht Club Argentino, Yacht Club de Punta del Este, Club La Terraza Punta del Este ( Uruguay) , Golf Club de Mar del Plata , Club Sportivo y Cultural Herlitzka ( Honorary President, in Las Vertientes, Province of Cordoba, Argentina).

He gave inthe 1940’s lectures on the industrial field and finances and published several articles at:
La Ingenieria, Centro Argentino de Ingenieros, year XLIX, # 851, Buenos Aires, september 1945
De Ingenieria e Industria , # 151, Buenos Aires, september 1945
La ingenieria, Centro Argentinomde Ingenieros, year XLIX, # 852, Buenos Aires, October 1945, published his disertation on industrial financements he did on July 1945 at the Centro Argentino de Ingenieros.
He passed away in Buenos Aires in 1980