Franz von Grebner

Franz von Grebner (born March 24, 1791 , † August 23, 1851 in Datschitz ) was an Austrian industrialist and sugar producer .

Life

Like his brother Thomas von Grebner, Franz von Grebner came from an old family of property administrators and lawyers. His father Franz Christoph von Grebner (May 11, 1765– September 13, 1852) was the royal Württemberg Chamberlain and Prince Hohenlohescher Hofrat in Bad Mergentheim and his mother Maria Franziska Lindner from Neckarsulm was the daughter of Chamber Councilor Franz Michael Lindner and Barbara, née Ulsamer .

Franz von Grebner married Helene Katharina Görgen, the daughter of the Viennese psychiatrist Bruno Görgen , in May 1826 in Vienna-Gumpendorf . Franz and Helene had eight children together.

As an Imperial and Royal First Lieutenant in the army and knight of the French Legion of Honor , Franz von Grebner was able to collect many impressions during the Napoleonic period and focused on sugar production. He was the general representative and friend of Baron Karl von Dalberg zu Datschitz (today Dačice), whose life he had saved in the campaign against Russia under Napoleon .

Sugar production

Franz von Grebner was a pioneer of industrial sugar production from sugar beet in Austria. As administrator of the rule Datschitz of Baron Karl Anton von Dalberg , he first founded a sugar factory in Kirchwiedern in 1829 , the first Austrian beet sugar factory after the continental barrier was lifted . Because the area around Kirchwiedern turned out to be unfavorable for growing sugar beet, the factory was relocated to Sukdol in 1832 , and a sugar refinery was also built in Datschitz . Its director, Jacob Christoph Rad , invented the sugar lump there . On January 23, 1843, Rad was granted a five-year privilege for the invention, and the following year a patent for the sugar cube press was granted. The so-called tea sugar or Viennese cube sugar was produced in Datschitz . Jacob Christoph Rad ceded the invention to Grebner, who from 1845 in Vienna and then throughout Europe produced and marketed the sugar cubes as Viennese tea sugar .

literature

• Felix Weingartner: Memoirs , Zurich and Leipzig 1929, on pages 94–95 he reports on the encounter with Helene von Grebner, née. Görgen in Brussels.
• Jacob Christoph Rad ceded his rights to the sugar cubes privilege to his employer Franz von Grebner
• Franz von Grebner's thoughts on sugar beet production
• Thomas von Grebner on sugar beet production in 1830 with a foreword by Franz von Grebner in Literarischer Anzeiger 1830, No. XXXII
• Thomas von Grebner: The beet sugar production based on personal experience and the best French writings, Vienna, Heubner, 1830
• Price application for the beetroot sugar manufacturing establishment under the direction of Franz von Grebner on the Dalberg property in Datschitz, 1836, in Mittheilungen of the kuk Moravian-Silesian Society for the promotion of arable farming, No. 11, March 1836
• Document at Südzucker about Franz von Grebner's founding of the sugar factory in Kirchwiedern / Moravia near Datschitz in 1829, where Jacob Christoph Rad would later invent the sugar lump as his director
• Proof of birth for Thomas von Grebner from Kupferzell in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jana Bisová: The eunuches of Worms in Bohemia and Moravia . In: Kurt Andermann (Hrsg.): Ritteradel in the Old Kingdom. Die Kämmerer von Worms called von Dalberg = work of the Hessian Historical Commission NF Bd. 31. Hessische Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2009. ISBN 978-3-88443-054-5 , pp. 289-316 (300).
2. ↑ The most important things in fast motion - wiener-zucker.at