Friedrich Schuster (politician)

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Friedrich Schuster (born December 23, 1863 in Vienna , † August 31, 1932 in Graz ) was an Austrian manager and politician .

Life

Friedrich Schuster, who grew up as the son of a wallpaperer , began studying chemistry at the University of Vienna in 1882 after attending secondary school . Although it can be proven that his studies lasted until 1887, the documents do not show whether Schuster actually received the doctorate in chemistry with which he subsequently appeared.

In 1887 Schuster moved to Moravia , where he found work as a chemical laboratory assistant in Vítkovice at the Witkowitz ironworks located there. He was later promoted to blast furnace engineer before he was appointed to the management floor in 1893 as a director. Now he not only managed the company's two blast furnace plants, but was also responsible for the management of the ore mining, the ore foundry and the fireclay factory . In the period from 1901 to 1915 he was general director of the team that helped reorganize the company, put it on a more economically sound footing, and thus made it one of the most modern steel and rolling mills in Europe. At the same time, he was elected President of the recently founded North Moravian-Silesian Federation of Industrialists from 1904 and sat on numerous boards, including the board of the Upper Silesian Ironworks and the Association of German Ironworkers based in Düsseldorf . During the First World War , Schuster sat on the main committee for war and transition economics.

After the war he retired to his estate in Thal , but in 1920 he was elected to the Chamber of Commerce, Commerce and Industry in Graz, where he was a member of numerous committees, including the Economics and Justice Committee. In December 1926 he was elected Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce.

Even after the war, Schuster was a member of a number of committees, supervisory boards and executive boards, including the Graz-Köflacher Railway and Mining Company , the Austrian Brown-Boverie-Werke and Austro-Saar Montan AG . Later he was also elected President of the Steam Boiler Investigation and Insurance Company .

In June 1930 Friedrich Schuster was sworn in as Federal Minister for Trade and Transport under Federal Chancellor Johann Schober . Politically, Schuster did not belong to any party, but was ideologically close to the Heimwehr . Since Chancellor Schober mainly represented Austria's economic interests, Schuster was increasingly pushed into the background of the events. When he failed in September 1930 as a mediator between Chancellor Schober and Vice Chancellor Carl Vaugoin on the question of filling the post of General Director of the Austrian Federal Railways with Franz G. Strafella , Schuster drew the consequences and resigned from his office after only three months in office as Minister of Economics. One day after him, the rest of the government resigned as one.

He moved to Graz, where he died two years later, at the age of 68.

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SURNAME Schuster, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian manager and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1932
Place of death Graz