Carl Franz Planck von Planckburg

St. Barbara-Friedhof Linz, grave of the Planck von Planckburg family, in which Carl Franz Planck von Planckburg is also buried.

Carl Franz Planck von Planckburg (born July 22, 1833 in Linz ; † March 6, 1880 there ) was an Austrian banker .

Life

Carl Franz came from the Planck von Planckburg family. After training at the grammar school in Linz and at the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster , he was the owner of the Achleiten and Hehenberg estates in the Traunviertel.

This was followed by work in various banks in Frankfurt am Main, Vienna and London. In 1865 he became an authorized signatory in his father's company, the JM Scheibenpogens Eidam bank in Linz. In 1868 Planck became the owner of the JM Scheibenpogens Eidam banking house in Linz. In 1869 this was converted into a stock corporation bank for Upper Austria and Salzburg .

As President of the Board of Directors of the Bank for Upper Austria and Salzburg, he tried to find a solution for the bank and its customers in the Vienna stock market crash in 1873 . The board of directors signed a personal guarantee fund, in which Planck contributed almost a third - 75,000  florins in cash. So the Oberbank could continue to exist.

Planck was a member of the executive committee for the 1873 World Exhibition in Vienna and the initiative for a consortium to build the Kremstalbahn in 1872. In 1879 he headed the committee for interested parties for the Kremstalbahn, four months after his death in July 1880 the first sod was broken by the abbot of the Kremsmünster Monastery Cölestin Gangsbauer and the opening in 1881. In August 1874, as Vice President of the Francisco-Carolinum Museum in Linz , Planck was appointed chairman of the action committee for the construction of a new museum.

He married Bohumila Maria Krüzner on November 22, 1866 in Leonding (* July 30, 1849 in Prague, † April 27, 1912 in Vienna) with whom he had eight children, Maria, Karl (Karlmann), Franziska, Robert, Emma, ​​Dorothea ( Dolly), Konrad, and Viktor had.

He is buried at the St. Barbara Cemetery in Linz.

literature

• Harry Slapnicka :  Planck von Planckburg Karl Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 115.
• Karl von Planck: The Planck von Planckburg and the Scheibenpogen. A contribution to the history of the city of Linz Gestalter und Gestalten, Erbe und Sendung series, Linz 1943.