Gustav von Mauthner

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Gustav von Mauthner

Gustav von Mauthner (born April 16, 1848 in Horschitz , † May 19, 1902 in Bad Vöslau ) was an Austrian banker .

Gustav von Mauthner came from a well-known merchant family and was the cousin of Ludwig Wilhelm Mauthner von Mauthstein .

He attended the German commercial academy in Prague and from 1864 was an office clerk in the anchor insurance company . In 1866 he moved to Vienna with his brother Ernst (1844–1923), who later founded a cotton spinning and weaving mill in Bubentsch near Prague , where he worked in a factory. From 1869 he was at Creditanstalt and stayed there for the rest of his career, except for the period from 1872 to 1874 as head of the exchange office at Österreichische Allgemeine Bank. In 1878 he became deputy director of Creditanstalt and in 1880, succeeding his father-in-law Carl Weiss von Weissenhall, director and in 1889 chairman of the board.

The main income came from the current banking business, which he pushed. From the 1890s, however, he increasingly financed start-ups again (after reluctance as a result of the founder crash of 1873).

Gustav von Mauthner's grave in Vienna's central cemetery

From 1888 to 1895 he led the negotiations with the Rothschild Group for the procurement of gold for the Austrian state in preparation for the currency reform adopted in 1892 (transition to a pure gold currency , in which he was also involved as a member of the Currency Study Commission). He was on the board of directors of several large companies (such as the Lokomotivfabriken in Wiener Neustadt , the Prager Eisenindustrie-Gesellschaft , the Providentia insurance company, the AG für Naphta -Industrie Lemberg, the Skoda works in Pilsen , the Hirtenberger cartridge factory ) and in the management (Mineral-Raffinerie-AG in Budapest, Hungarian General Credit Bank Budapest, Kaschau-Oderberger Eisenbahn ). He was also active as a financial expert on several ministerial committees.

Mauthner became a lifelong member of the manor house in 1899 and was active in economic policy there. He was a member of the constitutional party.

In addition to essays on financial and economic topics, he also wrote plays and poetry.

In 1884 he was ennobled. After his death, Gustav von Mauthner was buried in the old Jewish section of the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gate 1) in the Weiss von Weissenhall family crypt.

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  1. ^ Part of Carl Weiss Ritter von Weissenhall. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, March 11, 1896, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
personal data
SURNAME Mauthner, Gustav von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian banker
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Horschitz
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1902
Place of death Bad Vöslau