Herbert Turnauer

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Herbert Turnauer (born July 29, 1907 in Prague ; † January 8, 2000 in Vienna ) was an Austrian entrepreneur.

Life

In the 1930s, Turnauer, who came from a family of industrialists in Prague, ran the factory for galvanic elements, dry batteries and power supply units in Prague, which his family co-founded in 1908, the Bohemian corporation Le Carbone . He was also a member of the board of directors of the Bohemian Stock Fournier Factory in Prague. Until the 1940s he worked for a spin-off of the Prague branch of Thurm & Beschke KG Magdeburg founded in 1901 by Wilhelm Beschke , an important manufacturer of industrial coatings, especially protective coatings for steel structures, railways and later for aviation. His father Max Turnauer was a representative of the Thurm & Beschke plant in Prague, from which Tebas Industrielack AG was spun off a few years later . For this purpose, Max Turnauer acquired a 5000 m² property in Poděbrady (street No. Pop. 195/7). Thurm & Beschke Prague continued to exist at the original location in Prague-Vysočany . Turnauer headed the new Tebas Industrielack AG as one of its authorized signatories.

After the Second World War , the paint factory inherited from his father in Prague was expropriated and Herbert Turnauer was expelled from the country, although the Nazis considered him unworthy of defense because of his Jewish origins. 39 years old and without assets, he first built a paint factory from 1890 in Mödling owned by Peter Stoll with an unskilled worker and a chemist, the inventor of water-soluble synthetic resins Herbert Hönel . Turnauer moved with the company to Guntramsdorf in 1957 . This factory became the largest paint manufacturer in Austria. It was called Stolllack until it was sold to the Hoechst Group in 1969 . Turnauer founded the company Isovolta (Österreichische Isolierstoffwerke AG) in 1949 . In 1962 he acquired the majority in Teich AG , which deals with aluminum processing.

In 1969 he founded Constantia Industrieholding AG , where the former ÖVP party chairman Josef Taus was also director. His Constantia industrial holding comprised almost 50 plants in Germany and abroad. Turnauer cultivated an authoritarian leadership style, was considered a monarchist and politically supported Jörg Haider . The big industrialist was considered a workaholic and avoided the public. He was buried in the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 1, row A, number 6).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compass 1938, Financial Yearbook, Czechoslovakia page 1092 (direct link via ZEDHIA on page 1092 )
  2. ↑ Compass 1938, Financial Yearbook, Czechoslovakia page 1117 (direct link via ZEDHIA to [1] )
  3. ↑ Redakce, administrace a expedice listu nalézá se v nakladatelském závodě v Praze-Královských Vinohradech, page 24 [2] )
  4. ↑ Major fire at Thurm & Beschke Prague 1935 [3] )
  5. ↑ Compass 1944, Financial Yearbook, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Slovakia page 606 (direct link via ZEDHIA on page 606 )
  6. ^ Profile, October 25, 2008 [4]
  7. ↑ "The development of quality management and the effects on company organization and in the socio-cultural field of action" (PDF; 9.5 MB) Dissertation from 2009, accessed on September 24, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Turnauer, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Czech Republic
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2000
Place of death Vienna , Austria