Leopold Trebitsch
Leopold Trebitsch (born May 10, 1842 in Vienna ; † December 12, 1906 there ) was an Austrian entrepreneur. He was a silk manufacturer and a chess patron .
Life
Leopold Trebitsch ran the largest silk company in the Danube Monarchy and one of the largest on the continent, which also exported its goods to Germany, England and America. His fashion goods such as brilliantly iridescent silk scarves, dashing hats , shawls and fine stockings , heavy curtain and upholstery fabrics, damask , velvet and atlas went all over the world.
The company was founded in 1838 by his father Salomon, who immigrated from Nikolsburg to the Vienna suburb of Fünfhaus; it had factories in Mährisch-Schönberg , Blauda and Wigstadtl and a major defeat in Schottenfeldgasse in Vienna.
Trebitsch raised with his wife Malvine (1846-1918), the widow of his older brother Heinrich (1839-1872), their sons Siegfried Trebitsch and the lawyer Heinrich, as well as their own children, the doctor and ethnologist Rudolf Trebitsch , Oscar and Arthur Trebitsch . He donated 100,000 crowns to the Vienna chess club , and from 1907 to 1938 a Leopold Trebitsch memorial tournament was held .
Leopold Trebitsch rests in a grave designed by Max Fleischer in the old Israelite section of the Vienna Central Cemetery .
literature
- Georg Gaugusch : Trebitsch, Leopold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 440 f. (Direct links on p. 440 , p. 441 ).
- Moriz Dreger: Beginning and flowering of Viennese silk weaving . Artaria publisher, Vienna 1915, p. 75.
Web links
- Beginning and heyday of Viennese silk weaving
- Leopold Trebitsch memorial tournament, 1907-1938, Vienna at DNB
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trebitsch, Leopold. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 20: Susm – Two. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22700-4 , p. 91.
- ↑ Portrait on endgame.nl ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Leopold Trebitsch on viennatouristguide.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trebitsch, Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1906 |
| Place of death | Vienna |