Friedrich Mandl (1900 - 1977) was chairman of Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik, a leading Austrian armaments firm founded by his father, Alexander Mandl.

Mandl was a prominent fascist, although he deplored Nazism. In 1938, when Mandl's property was seized by the Austrian government, he became close to Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, the deposed Austrian Vice-Chancellor, fled to Brazil and later Argentina where he became a citizen and remarried. In Argentina he served as an advisor to Juan Perón and found a new role as a film producer whose leading ladies included the future Eva Perón. He also founded a new airplane manufacturing firm, Industria Metalúrgica y Plástica Argentina. Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg (May 10, 1899, Eferding -March 15, 1956, Schruns; Ernst Rüdiger Fürst von Starhemberg until the 1919 abolition of nobility) was an Austrian Fascist and politician prior to World War II. Born in Eferding, Upper Austria, in 1899, von Starhemberg hailed... Juan Domingo Perón (October 8, 1895 – July 1, 1974) was an Argentine soldier and politician, elected three times as President of Argentina from 1946 to 1955 and from 1973 to 1974. ... During her 1947 Rainbow Tour of Europe, Eva Perón was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. ...

From 1933 to 1937, Mandl was notably married to actress Hedy Lamarr. Mandl's last of several marriages was to Monika Brücklmeier, daughter of Eduard Brücklmeier, an accessory executed for his involvement in the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler. Hedy Lamarr Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an actress and communications technology innovator. ... Eduard Robert Wolfgang Brücklmeier (born 8 June 1903 in Munich; died 20 October 1944 in Berlin), as a diplomat, held various posts for the Foreign Office, and was executed as a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime in Germany in connection with the July 20 Plot. ... Claus von Stauffenberg The July 20 Plot was a failed coup détat and attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. ...