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VLADIMIR
J. ROTT
MAS / MSC ETH
EUR ING
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- 1950 born in Prague, Czechoslovakia
- 1963 first visit to my grandparents in
Switzerland (the Iron
Curtain opened a bit... fully breathing in the
fresh air of freedom, for the first time in my
life!)
- 1968/72 studying
(CVUT) and working
in Prague (getting into
some troubles, minor at first, for being much
too a free citizen)
- 1972 escaping «for America», via
Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Austria
(by foot in a beatifull
moonlight night over the Arlberg)
«got stuck» in Switzerland
(do not complain, on the
contrary!)
- 1972/74 working in Thun
(architecture, engineering
- enjoying the people, country and
atmosphere) and half a year in London
(Baker Street)
- 1974/78 studying and working in Zurich,
graduated 1978 (ETH)
- 1978/86 working in Zurich and surroundings
(architecture,
engineering), post/graduated 1986
(BWI, today MTEC, of
ETH)
- 1986/90 working in Zurich
(engineering, project
management, consulting)
- 1989/90 setting up V J Rott in Zurich, as
well as some partnership networks
(project management,
business & product development, media (film/TV),
urban development, real estate)
(1989/90 the Soviet
empire dissipated)
- 1990/91 first visit to my first home
country, Czechoslovakia
(after two decades, still
a very «gray» country back then)
- 1991/93 succesfully privatized the leftovers
of my forebears' company V J Rott in Prague
(only to get them robbed from
the ministry – by the loosers, the CP-/StB-comrades),
up to 1999 fighting to get three crisp-clear
cases through the Czech courts
(forget it over
there!), im/passionately waitig since then
(or is this for the
grandkids to succeed?!)
- 1991/99 working in Prague and Zurich,
partnerships and further own businesses
- 1999/2000 closing the Czech businesses
- 2000/today fully based in
Zurich, keeps on
supporting the development of, and in, Czechia
(and other such places) - economy, democracy,
society
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