Biography
Gebauer was born in 1888 in Gross-Herlitz, Austria. After finishing his schooling, he worked for a German car manufacturer, and later for Puch in Graz.
During World War I, he served in the Austro-Hungarian Air Force as a Waffenmeister at the Fischamend Military Airport.
Gebauer became a member of Danuvia RT's board of directors in 1926 and Technical Director in 1937. He fled to Sweden when the Soviets invaded Hungary in February 1945, where he worked for Bofors. He died in 1958.
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