Dreher (brewery owner)

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Schwechat Brewery (before 1889)

Dreher was the name of an Austrian family of large industrialists who, with their Schwechat brewery southeast of Vienna, played an important role in the spread of lager beer . The Dreher beer brand still exists today.

history

Franz Anton Dreher (1736–1820), painted by AF Oelenhainz
The "Dreherschloss" Altkettenhof near Schwechat
Anton Dreher junior (1849–1921), portrait 1900

The founder of the Austrian branch of the Dreher family, later referred to as the “beer dynasty” , was Franz Anton Dreher (1736-1820) , who came from Pfullendorf in the Grand Duchy of Baden . He came to Vienna in 1760 as a waiter , where he soon leased the Ober-Lanzendorf brewery and, in 1782, the brewery in the lower Werd in Leopoldstadt . In 1796 he bought the Klein-Schwechater Brauhaus (today's Schwechat Brewery ) and land.

His son Anton Dreher senior (1810–1863) leased the Klein-Schwechater brewery from his mother in 1836 , which he was able to buy in 1839 with his wife's money. In 1841 he invented the lager and in the course of the 1850s built the Schwechat brewery into the largest on the European mainland. He also bought several small breweries: in 1859 the Michelob brewery near Saaz in Bohemia and in 1862 the Steinbruch brewery in Budapest . From 1861 to 1863, Anton Dreher senior was a member of the Landtag and Reichsrat and one of the monarchy's largest taxpayers. Shortly before his death, he entrusted the Viennese lawyer Cajetan Felder with the guardianship of his underage son Anton Dreher junior (1849–1921) and the management of the brewery operations.

Anton Dreher junior acquired the Trieste brewery in 1869 , took over his father's company in 1870 and began exporting lager beer all over the world. Anton Dreher junior was a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament from 1884 and a member of the mansion of the Reichsrat and president of the Central Association of Austrian Industrialists ( CVIÖ ) from 1902 . In 1872 he bought the Altkettenhof Palace in Schwechat, which he had in 1902 rebuilt in the neo-baroque style by the architect Emil Bressler and the Schwechat master builder Johann Miksch . The interior was designed by Portois & Fix . After 1921 it was inhabited by his widow Katharina and in 1938 it was given to the city of Schwechat. In Vienna the Dreher owned the Palais Dreher in Operngasse and in Trieste the Palazzo Dreher , which later housed the stock exchange.

In 1913 the Schwechat Brewery merged with the St. Marx Brewery and 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. After the death of Anton Dreher junior in 1921, his eldest son Anton Eugen Dreher (1871–1925) was elected President of the United Breweries , but Oskar Dreher, the then eight-year-old grandson of Anton Dreher junior , became the universal heir and majorate . After Anton Eugen Dreher's death in 1925, the management of the group was taken over by a relative, who in 1925 sold all of the brewery shares to a bank consortium under the leadership of Schoellerbank . With the death of twelve-year-old Oskar on February 25, 1926, the Austrian branch of the family founded by Franz Anton Dreher expired .

The Dreher family's burial place is the Dreher mausoleum in the Schwechat cemetery.

Genealogy (extract)

  1. Franz Anton Dreher (1736–1820) ∞ I. Maria Anna Huber († 1803), childless; ∞ II. Katharina Widter (1786–1864), and had 3 daughters and 1 son:
    1. Anton Dreher senior (1810–1863) ∞ I. Anna Wißgrill († 1841), childless; ∞ II. Anna Herrfeldt, and had 1 son:
      1. Anton Dreher junior (1849–1921) ∞ Katharina Meichl (1850–1937) and had 3 sons:
        1. Anton Eugen Dreher (1871–1925) ∞ NN and had 1 son and 1 daughter:
          1. Anton Dreher III. (?? - 1917)
          2. Katharina Wünschek-Dreher (1896-1978) ∞ Alfons Franz Wünschek (1871-1949)
        2. Eugen Anton Dreher (1872-1849)
        3. Theodor Anton Dreher (1874-1914) ∞ NN and had 1 son:
          1. Oskar Dreher (1913–1926), universal heir

Web links

Commons : Dreher (Family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All sorts of things. Austria. (...) The Austrian line of the Dreher family died out. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 18/1926 (XLVII. Volume), March 3, 1926, p. 4, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt