Ignaz von Kuffner

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Ignaz von Kuffner with son Moriz, around 1878
Ignaz von Kuffner's grave in the Jewish cemetery in Břeclav

Ignaz Kuffner , Edler von Kuffner since 1878 (born April 22, 1822 in Lundenburg , Moravia; † March 23, 1882 in Ottakring near Vienna ; also Ignaz, Edler von Kuffner ) from the Jewish- Austrian entrepreneurial family Kuffner was a brewery and factory owner, Mayor and honorary citizen of Ottakring, founder and sponsor of humanitarian institutions. P. 25

Life

Ignaz Kuffner's first marriage was to his cousin Fanny Kuffner (* March 4, 1830 in Lundenburg; † July 21, 1851 in Vienna), the daughter of Simon and Josefine Kuffner, and his second marriage to Rosalie Spitzer (* approx. 1826 in Stampfen near Preßburg , then Hungary; † December 21, 1899 in Vienna). In 1854 her son Moriz von Kuffner was born, who was to lead the Kuffner ventures to even greater prosperity. Ignaz von Kuffner found his final resting place in the Jewish cemetery in Břeclav .

Entrepreneur

The 28-year-old Ignaz came to Vienna in 1850 or 1848 with his cousin Jakob from the small town of Lundenburg on the Austrian border (today Břeclav in the Czech Republic). Her Jewish ancestors in Lundenburg (including their fathers Karl and David Kuffner) were economically very successful and belonged to the local upper class. Ignaz and Jakob settled in Ottakring, the largest working-class district in Wiener Neustadt at the time, and in 1850 they bought the small Ottakring brewery that had been founded 13 years earlier by the Plank family and also produced alcohol and compressed yeast. They turned it into a model company in a very short time by increasing the technical level, multiplying production output and introducing exemplary labor and social law provisions. P. 4

Mayor and first aid worker

The synagogue in Ottakring, around 1885

Ignaz Kuffner was politically involved in the community committee from 1865 and as mayor of Ottakring from 1869 to 1882. In 1866 - during the Austro-Prussian War - he had a small hospital built at his own expense to care for the seriously wounded. Kuffner bridged financial bottlenecks in the community coffers with interest-free loans. During his time as mayor, he set up the Kuffner School Foundation to improve the general school infrastructure.

With his fortune, he also supported the Jewish community and gave them a plot of land for the construction of the synagogue in Ottakring, Neulerchenfeld and Hernals.

The poor in his district received firewood at his expense, and the school libraries received more books.

Honors

Ignaz Kuffner's achievements found public recognition through the appointment as mayor of Ottakring (later honorary citizen) and the award of the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order by Emperor Franz Joseph . In 1878 Ignaz Kuffner was finally raised to the hereditary Austrian nobility as "Edler von Kuffner". P. 4

Before 1870, in what was then the Vienna suburb of Ottakring (since 1892: 16th district), the Kuffnergasse next to the brewery site was named after him. (The street name was later also regarded as a tribute to his son Moriz von Kuffner .) After Ignaz Kuffner's daughter was in Ottakring from 1886 to 1944 and has been named Katharinenruhe since 2002 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Ignaz von Kuffner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ today 16th district of Vienna
  2. ↑ a b c see literature Katja Fischer: Jüdische Kunstsammlungen in Wien before 1938 using the example of the Kuffner family
  3. ↑ a b see literature NDB Gustav Otruba : Kuffner, Ignaz von
  4. ↑ a b c see literature Peter Habison: Moriz von Kuffner und seine Sternwarte
  5. ^ Lehmanns Wiener Adressbuch, edition 1870, p. 12 of the section (= digital p. 28)
personal data
SURNAME Kuffner, Ignaz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuffner, Ignaz Edler von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian industrialist and patron
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Lundenburg , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1882
Place of death Ottakring near Vienna