Mathias von Schönerer

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Mathias Schönerer, lithograph by Franz Eybl , 1846

Mathias (since 1860 Ritter von ) Schönerer (born January 9, 1807 in Vienna ; † October 30, 1881 ibid) was one of Austria's most important railway engineers. He was the builder of the southern ramp of the horse-drawn railway line Linz - Budweis and its extension to Gmunden am Traunsee. Then he was responsible for the construction of the southern railway from Vienna to Gloggnitz and the Laxenburg railway .

Life

After Franz Anton von Gerstner's dismissal, Mathias Schönerer completed the first railway in continental Europe, the horse-drawn railway Budweis – Linz – Gmunden , despite financial and technical difficulties , and was responsible for the construction of the first Austrian railway tunnel (156 m) near Gumpoldskirchen , the so-called Busserltunnel , in 1841 , the north portal of which also bears Schönerer's motto “Recta sequi” (“Follow the straight lines”) in large roman letters.

He was construction and operations director of the Vienna-Gloggnitzer Bahn (WGB) and in 1839 founded the repair workshop near the WGB train station in Vienna, which later became the StEG's locomotive factory .

During the war of 1848/49 he organized the first military transports carried out by rail.

Coat of arms of the von Schönerer family

From 1856 he was a member of the board of directors of the Empress Elisabeth Railway , from 1867 that of the Kaiser-Franz-Josephs-Bahn . On December 16, 1860, Emperor Franz Joseph I raised him to hereditary knighthood for his services to railroad construction .

In 1938, Matthias-Schönerer-Gasse in Vienna's Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15th district) was named after him. Mathias Schönerer was the father of the German national politician Georg von Schönerer and the actress Alexandrine von Schönerer .

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  1. http://www.novanobilitas.eu/rod/schoenerer