Eduard Pleschner from Eichstett

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Eduard Pleschner , from 1857 Pleschner Edler von Eichstett or Pleschner von Eichstett (born June 14, 1812 in Prague , † May 22, 1864 ibid) was an Austrian businessman and founder of the commercial academy in Prague.

Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber after a painting by Engerth, 1856
Veronika Wischin, Pleschner's wife
Birth certificate of a daughter of Eduard Pleschner
(copy (1938) of the original from 1848)
Coat of arms of the Pleschner family

Life

Obituary

He came from a family originally from Deutsch-Matrei in Tirol , who immigrated to Bohemia in the second half of the 18th century . Eduard Pleschner was born as Eduard Johann Erasmus Ernest to the married couple Joseph Pleschner and Antonia. Weiß was born in Prague on June 14, 1812 and baptized in the Church of St. Kastulus (sv. Haštala). Since father was a citizen of Prague, merchant and trader, born in Saaz (Bohemia).

Since January 4, 1836, Pleschner was the managing co-owner of the company "Josef Pleschner" founded by his father in 1796 in Prague (Old Town House 733), a company for " spices - material and dyed goods, including regional products, as well as commission and shipping business " . He was the kk Hofeffekten-Freight Forwarder, agent for Bohemia and Moravia of the "British and Continental Express Parcels Agency" and a member of the "Industry and Trade Association for Inner Austria".

As President of the Prague Commercial Board, he founded the first Austrian Higher Commercial College (Deutsche Handelsakademie) in Prague in 1856.

Pleschner was raised to the Austrian nobility on March 13, 1857 with a diploma from June 3, 1857 in Vienna with the addition of "Edler von Eichstett".

His son is the Austrian lawyer and writer August Pleschner von Eichstett (1843–1908).

literature

Individual evidence

according to birth register 1812 Junius 14

according to the register of the Prague population, family record of the Eduard Pleschner family (born June 14, 1812)

  • Family arches - Archive Catalog Prague
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  2. ^ I. Helbling von Hirzenfeld (Red.): Handbook of the Kingdom of Bohemia for the year 1848 , Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences (ed.), Verlag Gottlieb Haase Söhne, Prague 1848, page 560 ( digital copy )
  3. ^ Eduard Maria Oettinger, Hugo Schramm-Macdonald: Moniteur des dates, contenant un million de renseignements biographiques, généalogiques et historiques. Supplément , 1882 ( excerpt )
  4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, page 416, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISBN 3-7980-0819-1