Gustav von Schoeller

Gustav von Schoeller (born May 3, 1830 in Brno ; † December 18, 1912 there ) was a large Austro-Hungarian entrepreneur and economic functionary of German descent, as well as consul for Moravia and Silesia .

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After attending the Protestant school in Brno and the commercial school in Leipzig, the son of the industrialist Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller (1797–1877) received extensive specialist training in the Gebr. Founded in 1819 by his great uncle Leopold Schoeller in Düren and under the direction of his father . Schoeller k. k. Fine cloth and wool goods factory. He gained additional knowledge of foreign trade in the USA in 1854. He then supported his father in running the cloth factory, which he took over after his death in 1877 and expanded the company by founding another worsted yarn spinning mill in Brno. Together with his brother Philipp Johann von Schoeller (1835-1892), who received the father's sugar factories, Gustav then joined the family-owned Viennese wholesale and banking house Schoeller & Co., which later became Schoellerbank, as a partner .

In addition to these full-time obligations, Schoeller was a member of numerous boards, administrative and supervisory boards. So he sat, among others, the board of the Moravian Escomptebank, the Leipnik- Lundenburger sugar factories AG and Miröschau-Libuschin-Schwadowitzer-coal industry AG. He was initially a member and from 1861 to 1873 also the first president and later an honorary member of the Moravian Trade Association founded in 1861 , further a member and from 1883 to 1897 also the first president of the Association of Wool Manufacturers and from 1865 a member, from 1885 vice-president and from 1909 president of the Brno Chamber of Commerce and Industry. After Schoeller had been appointed consular agent of the USA for several years due to his international contacts, the Chamber of Commerce also appointed him German consul for Moravia and Silesia in 1878.

In addition, he was involved in the board of the Brno Industrial Exhibition and as president of the jury of the anniversary exhibition in 1888. He was also a delegate of the permanent Austrian exhibition commission of the Brno Chamber of Commerce and Industry. On behalf of the Chamber, he was instrumental in establishing the workers' health and pension funds for the sheep's wool manufacturers and a training institute for the textile industry. Finally he was a member of the Brno parish committee and honorary curator of the evangelical parish.

For his numerous services Gustav von Schoeller was appointed officer of the French Legion of Honor and was honored with the Commander's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order and the Knight Class of the Order of the Iron Crown .

After Gustav von Schoeller's death in 1912, his two sons and, due to their other obligations, mainly their brother-in-law Alexander von Schreiber, continued the father's company.

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  Gustav Philipp von Schoeller

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  Levice Castle

Gustav von Schoeller was married to the Brno industrialist daughter Leopoldine Haupt, with whom he had two sons, among other things. His son Gustav Philipp (1866–1950) concentrated his main activity on the administration of the possessions acquired by Alexander von Schoeller in the Levice domain , where he set up, among other things, a model company for half-blood horses and a spirits distillery . He resided at Levice Castle, which Alexander had acquired from the Esterházy family in 1867 . The second son, Friedrich Leopold (1872–1946), initially worked as a banker at the Deutsche Bank branch in London and from the turn of the century at Schoellerbank. After the collapse of the monarchy in 1918, both brothers tried to secure their fortunes in the newly formed Czechoslovakia and for this purpose applied for Czechoslovak citizenship in 1921 . In 1945 their entire family property in Brno and Levice was expropriated on the basis of the Beneš decrees . Only the former Schoellermühle in Levice, which has now been converted into a hotel, still reminds of the entrepreneurial family under the name Schoellerpub .

Literature and Sources

• E. Lebensaft:  Schoeller, Gustav von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 20 f. (Direct links on p. 20 , p. 21 ).
• Hugo Schoeller, August Victor Schoeller: History of the Schoeller Family. 2 volumes. R. Eisenschmid, Berlin 1894. New edition by Stedman and Wallmoden, 1994, ISBN 3-980-32882-1 .
• Hans Freiherr von Dumreicher: 100 years of Haus Schoeller - from the past and the present. Self-published, 2nd edition, Vienna 1934.
• Franz Mathis: Big Business in Austria, Austrian large companies in brief presentations. Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-53771-7 .
• Johann Slokar: History of Austrian Industry and its Promotion by Emperor Franz I. F. Tempsky, Vienna 1914.

Web links

Commons : Schoeller Palace in Levice  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Schoeller in Levice (PDF; 1.3 MB) on forumhistoriae.sk (Slovak)