Anton Dreher senior

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Anton Dreher senior, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1863

Anton Dreher senior (actually Anton Eugen Georg Dreher ; born June 7, 1810 in Schwechat near Vienna ; † December 27, 1863 there ) was an Austrian brewer from the Dreher family .

Life

Anton Dreher senior was born as the son of the brewer Franz Anton Dreher and his second wife Katharina Widter. First he attended a Piarist convict and then went on to do an apprenticeship in the Simmeringer brewery Meichl. In 1836 he leased the Klein-Schwechater Brauhaus (today's Schwechat Brewery ) from his mother, who had been widowed since 1820 , which he was able to buy in 1839 with the money of his wife Anna Herrfeldt.

At a young age he went on study trips to Germany, met Gabriel Sedlmayr , the son of the spade brewer , in Munich , and traveled with him in 1837 to Barclay and Perkins in England , the "beer technology" leader at the time. After his return he was the first European brewer to adopt the English malting process. He realized that for bottom-fermented beers, a technology that originated in Bavaria, appropriate cooling and storage were crucial. Anton Dreher built large cellars filled with natural ice to cool his beer. Anton Dreher brewed top-fermented imperial beer in Schwechat until 1841 , until he developed a light bottom-fermented lager, the Schwechat lager , in 1840/41 , which he initially called Märzenbier . This type of beer soon enjoyed great popularity in Vienna and later worldwide.

Vinzenz Prick's steam engine in the Vienna Technical Museum
Caricature on Cajetan Felder's guardianship of Anton Dreher junior (before 1870)

The strong demand for lager beer led Anton Dreher to use a steam engine to brew beer in 1850 as the second brewer of the monarchy after Mautner Markhof . This steam engine, which was built by Vinzenz Prick's state-authorized metal machine factory , can be viewed today in the Technical Museum in Vienna .

In the course of the 1850s, the Schwechat brewery became the largest on mainland Europe, and the Klein Schwechat Lager shipments went far beyond the borders of the Austrian Empire .

Anton Dreher bought smaller breweries:

The Hungarian Dreher beer and the Italian Birra Dreher are still around today.

Anton Dreher was also a member of the Landtag and Reichsrat from 1861 to 1863 and one of the monarchy's largest taxpayers.

In 1863, shortly before his death, he entrusted the Viennese lawyer and deputy mayor Cajetan Felder with the guardianship of his 14-year-old son Anton Dreher junior. (1849–1921) and the management of the brewery operations. His son took over his father's company in 1870, continued to expand the brewery empire and began exporting lager beer all over the world. His half-brother was the writer Anton Breitner .

In 1894 in Vienna- Simmering (11th district) the Dreherstraße , connection to Schwechat, was named after Anton Dreher senior.

literature

Web links

Commons : Anton Dreher senior  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H.Stekl:  Adolf Ignaz Mautner Markhof. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 165.
personal data
SURNAME Dreher, Anton senior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dreher, Anton Eugen Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian brewery entrepreneur and politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwechat
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1863
Place of death Schwechat