Anton Dreher junior

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Anton Dreher junior (1888)
Altkettenhof Castle near Schwechat

Anton Dreher junior (actually Carl Anton Maria Dreher ; born March 21, 1849 in Vienna ; † August 7, 1921 in Schwechat near Vienna) was an Austrian brewing industrialist from the Dreher family . He exported the lager invented by his father Anton Dreher senior all over the world.

biography

Caricature on Cajetan Felder's guardianship of Anton Dreher junior (before 1870)

After the death of his father in 1863, the Viennese lawyer and later mayor of Vienna Cajetan Felder was the guardian of the young Anton Dreher and managed the farm until he was of legal age.

Anton Dreher junior took over the brewery company in 1870 and expanded it considerably. He also started exporting the lager overseas. This also earned him the title “Wiener Braukaiser”.

In 1872 Anton Dreher junior bought the Altkettenhof Palace near Schwechat. Dreher had the palace rebuilt in 1902 by the architect Emil Bressler (1847–1921) and the architect Johann Miksch from Schwechat in the neo-baroque style for around 800,000 Austrian crowns (approx. 4 million euros ). The interior was designed by the Viennese furniture maker and interior designer Portois & Fix . (After the death of Anton Dreher in 1921, the castle was inhabited by his wife Katharina Dreher (1850–1937) until her death and, in accordance with the orders of her son and only heir Eugen Dreher, was given to the city of Schwechat in 1938.)

In the mild winter of 1872/1873 Anton Dreher junior had a technical cooling problem - he had to have the ice needed for cooling brought from Styria and Galicia by train, which resulted in high costs. That is why he supported Carl von Linde in building his refrigeration machine. In 1877 the first prototype of a refrigeration machine was installed and put into operation in the Dreher brewery in Trieste . Anton Dreher was the first brewer to introduce artificial cellar cooling.

In 1897 Anton Dreher had increased beer production to 740,000 hectoliters and thus doubled his father's sales volume. The further increase in production in the following years led to the Dreher'sche Brewery becoming one of the largest breweries in the world. In 1905 the brewery was converted into Anton Drehers Brauereien Aktiengesellschaft .

Anton Dreher Junior was a member of the Lower Austrian Landtag from 1884 and from 1902, appointed by Emperor Franz Joseph I , a member of the manor house of the Reichsrat and President of the Central Association of Austrian Industrialists ( CVIÖ ).

After 1900 there was noticeable competition for the Schwechater brewery from the Mautner brewery ( St. Marx ) and his father-in-law's brewery, Meichl ( Simmering ). In 1913 the Schwechat brewery merged with the St. Marx brewery and also with the Simmering brewery to form the United Breweries Schwechat, St. Marx, Simmering - Dreher, Mautner, Meichl AG . During the First World War , brewing operations were drastically restricted, but not shut down.

Further development to the United Breweries AG

After Anton Dreher's death in 1921, his then eight-year-old grandson Oskar Dreher was appointed universal heir and majorate of the Dreher family; Anton Eugen Dreher (* 1871), Anton Dreher's eldest son, was elected President of the United Breweries AG . Anton Eugen Dreher died in 1925, however, and the management of the group was taken over by a relative of Anton Eugen Dreher, who in 1925 sold all of the brewery shares to a bank consortium.

After further mergers (takeover of breweries, e.g. in Hütteldorf , Jedlesee , Waidhofen an der Ybbs ), the Mautner Markhof family took over the majority of the Vereinigte Brauereien AG in 1935 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All sorts of things. In:  Badener Zeitung , March 3, 1926, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt

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SURNAME Dreher, Anton junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dreher, Carl Anton Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian inventor, entrepreneur and politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1921
Place of death Schwechat