Background
Orban, Kurt was born on August 6, 1916 in Staten Island, New York, United States. Son of Kurt and Gertrude (Astfalck) Orbanowski.
import/export company executive
Orban, Kurt was born on August 6, 1916 in Staten Island, New York, United States. Son of Kurt and Gertrude (Astfalck) Orbanowski.
Graduate steel foreign trade course, Stahlunion-Export GmbH, Duesseldorf, Germany, 1938.
Foreign trade correspondent Stahlunion, Dusseldorf, 1938, representative, 1939—1940, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1940—1941. Steel export trader Steel Union Sheet Piling Company, New York City, 1941. Vice president North River Steel Company, 1941.
Chairman, president Kurt Orban Company, Inc., Wayne, New Jersey, from 1946. Now senior partner, chairman/Chief Executive Officer Kurt Orban Partners LLC.
Member field hockey games committee United States Olympic Committee, 1948-1961. Playing manager, team captain United States Field Hockey Team., London, England, 1948, playing coach, Melbourne, Australia, 1956. United States representative Bureau International Hockey Federation, Brussels, 1954-1962.
Served to 1st lieutenant, pilot United States Army Air Force, 1943-1945. Member American Institute for International Steel ( charter. President 1966-1968, 78-80, board directors New York City), American Exporters and Importers Association (president 1972-1973, board directors), Wire Association International, American Wire Producers Association (charter).
Children: Robert Arnold, Robin Ann, Kurt-Matthew, Jonathan. Married second, Ann Norris, October 1986.