The O’Leary Review Podcast
Guest: Hartmuth Pelger
December 1, 2022
Recently, we got a chance to sit down—virtually, of course, because I’m in California and he’s in Austria—with Hartmuth Pelger.
Hartmuth is a multilingual business executive with more than 25 years of experience managing a wide range of financial functions, from analysis to auditing.
Currently, he is a CFO in the e-Mobility sector.
Hartmuth lives in Austria but has also lived in 8 countries across three continents during his well-traveled life.
More importantly, Hartmuth started a parallel career in business coaching for high-performing individuals.
Tom Woods 100
One of the goals of this program is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on the podcast. “Tom’s orbit” is loosely defined, but in our case, Hartmuth is number 8. Ninety-two to go!
Book mentioned Tomorrow’s Gold: Asia’s age of discovery by Marc Faber
Influences
The Peter Schiff Show — where Tom Woods developed some of his radio/podcasting chops as a guest host for Peter.
The Mises Institute — The Mises Institute exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian school of economics, and individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Founded in 1982 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe — an Austrian School economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher, is Professor Emeritus of Economics at UNLV, Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute, founder and president of The Property and Freedom Society, former editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and a lifetime member of the Royal Horticultural Society. He is married to economist Dr. A. Gulcin Imre Hoppe and resides with his wife in Istanbul.
Digging through the archives, we found the debut episode of the Tom Woods Show which Hartmuth mentions.
Ethnic Germans in Romania
The Wikipedia entry – Germans of Romania
A New York Times article (behind paywall), “Ethnic Germans in Romania Dwindle”
A fascinating 8+ minute video on The Exodus of Romania’s German-speaking Minority.
More Romanian history
Who was Nicolae Ceaușescu? The Wikipedia on Romania’s brutal and hated dictator.
Romania in World War II. The Wikipedia on the interesting history, from its near alliance with Nazi Germany to its ultimate flip to the Communist side.
The e-Mobility Sector
Hartmuth works in the off-highway sector within e-mobility. Some manufacturers are now focused on not only alternative fuels, but alternative ways to power machinery in general.
The specific application of a fully-electric drive concept is key to knowing if it will make economic sense. For instance, Hartmuth is working on mining and agricultural application, and…
