Heinrich Klinger (industrialist)

Heinrich Klinger (born October 1, 1832 in Pressburg , † January 12, 1905 in Vienna ) was an Austrian industrialist .

Life

Heinrich Klinger was the son of a Jewish second-hand dealer in the city of Pressburg, which was part of the Austrian Empire. In 1846 he came to Vienna, not far away, where he worked for the company Josef and Markus Weiß from 1848 . Ten years later, in 1858, he founded a canvas business in Vienna and in 1866 he set up a hand-weaving mill in Zwittau . In 1868 and 1869, branches followed in Leopoldstadt in Vienna and in Budapest . In 1888 another branch followed in his hometown Pressburg. In 1898 Heinrich Klinger, who had been using mechanical looms in his factories since 1875 , temporarily employed over 3,000 workers. As a member of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce , Klinger was involved in the drafting of the trade regulations from 1883 and for many years was a member of the board of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien , whose president he appeared from 1897 to 1903. Over the years, he passed his flourishing company on to his son Ernst Klinger (1862–1928), who worked for his father's company at a young age.

Web links

• Heinrich Klinger in the German biography