Anton Sailer (patron)
Anton Sailer (born January 17, 1820 in Arad , Kingdom of Hungary ; † July 10, 1904 in Temesvár , Kingdom of Hungary) was a German businessman and patron , founder of the children's clinic in Temesvár.
Life
Anton Sailer completed a business apprenticeship in Arad. At the age of twenty he came to Temesvár as a clerk. Here he went into business for himself and soon made a fortune. In 1867 he became a city councilor in Temesvár. With his acquired fortune, he set up several foundations . He started his foundations in 1902 when he donated 51,000 crowns to the Temesvár branch of the “White Cross” to build a children's clinic. On March 24, 1902, he was given the title of honorary citizen of the city of Timisoara and the former Mondgasse in the Józsefváros district ( German Josefstadt ) was renamed Anton-Sailer-Gasse .
On July 5, 1902, he donated 100,000 crowns to the city's citizens' asylum fund. The money was administered as a separate “Sailer Foundation”. At that time the king awarded him the Golden Cross of Merit with the crown . Two years later, on April 18, 1904, Anton Sailer donated 200,000 crowns to the city, 120,000 of which went to the institute for the blind and 80,000 to the construction of a new hospital. On April 25, 1904, the city council decided to have Sailer's bust made by the sculptor Nikolaus Ligeti for 20,000 crowns and to display it in front of the children's hospital.
After his death, Anton Sailer was buried in the cemetery in Józsefváros.
literature
- Anton Peter Petri : Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums Th. Breit Druck und Verlag GmbH, Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
- Josef Geml : Alt – Temesvar in the last half century 1870–1920 , Banat Verlag, Erding 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810962-9-3
Web links
- Kulturraum-banat.de , History of Timisoara
- evz.ro , Anton Sailer, filantropul timisorenilor (Romanian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Geml : Alt – Temesvar in the last half-century 1870–1920 , Banat Verlag, Erding 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810962-9-3
- ^ Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums Th. Breit Druck und Verlag GmbH, Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sailer, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Banat Swabian patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arad , Kingdom of Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1904 |
| Place of death | Temesvár , Kingdom of Hungary |