Cosmus Schindler
Cosmus Schindler (born February 14, 1860 in Ennenda ; † June 16, 1950 in Zurich ) was a Swiss textile manufacturer who was primarily active in Austria.
Life
Parentage and education
Cosmus Schindler came from a particularly successful Swiss entrepreneurial family in Vorarlberg of the Reformed faith. His great-grandfather was the entrepreneur Samuel Schindler , his grandfather the textile manufacturer Fridolin Schindler , his father the textile manufacturer and painter Samuel Wilhelm Schindler . Like him, his brother Friedrich Wilhelm Schindler became a textile manufacturer, but was remembered by posterity for his role as the Austrian pioneer of electrical engineering. Cosmus' niece Anna Margaretha Schindler became a well-known sculptor.
Cosmus attended schools in St. Gallen and Lausanne (Switzerland) and, together with his brother, received commercial training in Livorno (Italy). His professional career began in 1882 in the Kennelbach spinning mill, the family company that, after reorganization in 1888 as Jenny & Schindler , was managed by the three partners Cosmus Jenny (his maternal uncle), Friedrich Wilhelm Schindler (his brother) and himself.
In 1886 his father Samuel Wilhelm Schindler acquired the luxury residence Villa Leuchtenberg on the Lindau lakeshore from the daughter of the late Princess Théodelinde von Württemberg and gave it to his son Cosmus as a representative residence.
Before the First World War
While his brother mainly took care of his various electrical engineering plans and projects and had to withdraw completely from the public in 1909 due to illness, his uncle Cosmus Jenny intensively expanded the company. With the help of Cosmus Schindler , he opened further cotton spinning mills and a weaving mill in Tyrol ( Telfs 1887 and Imst 1992) and in 1894 the weaving mill Mittenbrunnen near Dornbirn in Vorarlberg . In 1899 a cotton mill was added near Moscow . However, the central control of the company remained in Kennelbach and was in the hands of Cosmus Schindler . With a production capacity of almost 94,000 spindles and 1,400 looms, the Jenny & Schindler factories were among the largest cotton producers in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy before the First World War .
literature
- Ed .: Schindler, Cosmus (1860–1950), textile industrialist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 147 f. (Direct links on p. 147 , p. 148 ).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schindler, Cosmus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-Austrian textile manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ennenda |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1950 |
| Place of death | Zurich |