Ögussa
| Austrian Gold and Silver Scheideanstalt GmbH
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| legal form | GesmbH |
| founding | 1862 |
| Seat | Vienna , Austria |
| Number of employees | 140 (as of 2012) |
| sales | EUR 400 million (as of 2012) |
| Branch | Precious metal - Affinerie |
| Website | oegussa.at |
The ÖGUSSA (Austrian Gold and Silver Separating Plant) is an Austrian metal scabbard company with a focus on jewelry, precious metals and technical. The company based in Vienna was founded in 1862 and still has branches in Vienna, Linz , Salzburg , Innsbruck and Graz . Klagenfurt and Dornbirn , all except Dornbirn, founded in the period 1927 to 1932, as well as a foreign agency in Prague today .
development
Markowitsch & Scheid
The company originally had the name Markowitsch & Scheid (M&S), named after the two founders. Georg Adam Scheid came to Vienna from Württemberg in 1858, where he joined the workshop of the silverware manufacturer and jeweler as well as his later father-in-law Michael Markowitsch, whose partner he became when the joint general partnership was founded in 1862. After Scheid later resigned, Markowitsch & Scheid was continued under the same name by Adolf Markowitsch, the son of Michael Markowitsch, and kept the name until the company was dissolved in 1898.
Jewelry factory Georg Adam Scheid and Georg Adam Scheid'sche Affinerie
In 1882 Scheid left the joint company, which now has around 300 employees, and founded the Georg Adam Scheid jewelry factory, also located in Vienna, which was also able to successfully sell its products in Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom. The precious metal refinery founded by Scheid in 1884 with the name Georg Adam Scheid'sche Affinerie was soon a household name among goldsmiths. Due to the demand at home and abroad, branches were opened in Budapest (1891–1945), Amstetten (1908–1926; sold) Prague (1920–1945) and Bucharest (1923–1945), as well as the branches that still exist in Austria today.
In 1894, Scheid's sons Arthur (1870–1897) and Robert (1872–1950) and his nephew Georg (1850–1937) joined the management as partners. In 1911 Georg Adam Scheid retired and Robert and Georg Scheid, later Robert and his younger brother Ludwig Scheid (1886–1960) took over the management. The collapsed overseas market for the jewelry sector and the poor economic situation after the end of the Second World War led to the liquidation of the jewelry factory, and the affinery continued in its original form until 1962.
ÖGUSSA
1962 Affinerie merged with the company of Louis Rössler (1850-1910), where the already since 1923 Degussa AG limited partner was, in turn, since 1960 half of the Austrian Chemical Works Ges.mbH (since 1993 Degussa Austria GmbH and since 2000 Degussa -Hüls CEE ), and from then on bore the name Ögussa (Austrian gold and silver separating institute Scheid & Rössler), at that time still in the form of a Ges.mbH & Co KG . In the period from 1988 to 1990, took over Degussa Austria the Ögussa the remaining shares of private shareholders by gradual purchase complete, in 1999, the merged Ögussa completely to Degussa Austria GmbH . Today the company is a subsidiary of AGOSI / Umicore .
Locations
- 1060 Vienna, Gumpendorfer Strasse 85
- 1230 Vienna, Liesing-Flur-Gasse 4
- Linz, Hessenplatz 7
- Salzburg, Schwarzstrasse 48
- Innsbruck, Leopoldstrasse 42
- Graz, Hans Sachs-Gasse 12
- Klagenfurt, Villacher Strasse 1b
- Dornbirn, Marktstrasse 16A
- Prague, Soukenická ul. 12
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b About us ( Memento of November 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), company website.
- ^ Scheid, Georg Adam , Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950.
- ↑ Georg Adam Scheid ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Protestant cemetery Simmering.
- ↑ History , company website.
- ^ Niello silver from Vienna (English), ASCAS.
