Mautner Markhof

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The Mautner Markhof AG was an Austrian food producer owned by the Mautner Markhof family .

Lager

Ignaz Mautner came to Vienna in 1840 and leased the Sankt Marx brewery , which he was able to buy in 1857. By introducing the steam engine in 1845, he managed to increase production considerably and to operate a self-invented cooling machine with which the bottom-fermented Viennese lager, successfully introduced by his competitor Anton Dreher senior , could be produced all year round. As a result, cold stores were built under the patent name "Normal-Bierlagerkeller System Mautner". The company's economic success was based on beer and its by-products, baker's yeast and raw alcohol .

Compressed yeast

The bakers were concerned that the bottom-fermenting brewing process produced less yeast and pushed the manufacturers to find a solution. One of Mautner Markhof's milestones was the development of the industrial production of compressed yeast , which became established worldwide. In 1847 Mautner developed a process ("Viennese skimming process") that went into production in 1850 with the Graz brewer Johann Peter von Reininghaus and his brother Julius, who was a chemist. In 1861 a plot of land in Vienna- Simmering was acquired, which remained the main production site until the 20th century.

Mautner's sons Karl Ferdinand (1834–1896) and Georg Heinrich (1840–1904) enlarged the company and founded a compressed yeast and alcohol factory in Floridsdorf in 1864, which was separate from the beer production. A malt house was added there in 1872, and the St. Georg brewery opened in 1892. The Sankt Marx brewery had become the third largest on the European continent under Karl Ferdinand, immediately after the Schwechat brewery by Anton Dreher junior , before it took over the Schwechat brewery in 1913 under the less successful management of his son Viktor Mautner Markhof (1865-1919) and Simmering (Th. & G. Meichl) was merged to form the "United Breweries Schwechat, St. Marx, Simmering AG".

Vinegar and mustard

Kremser mustard

Since 1913, production has also been expanded to include other foods such as mustard and vinegar . The raw material basis for compressed yeast was switched from grain to sugar and molasses . In 1927 the Hesperides vinegar was successfully introduced. After the “ Anschluss of Austria ” in 1938, the family business escaped expropriation because the National Socialists classified the Mautner Markhofs as “not Jewish , but also not Aryan ”. After the Second World War , in which the factories suffered severe damage, the delicatessen division expanded with other products such as syrup , and Mautner Markhof became a leading company in the Austrian food industry. Manfred Mautner Markhof senior rebuilt the Schwechat brewery .

The yeast factory was the subject of early citizen protests against industrial pollution in the 1970s. In 1978 the breweries merged with Brau AG (today Brau Union). Since 1984, non-voting preference shares of Mautner Markhof AG have been listed on the stock exchange. Subsidiaries were established in Hungary , Poland and Croatia in the 1990s . In 1997 the marketing of the spirits was given up. In 2001 the family withdrew from Mautner Markhof Feinkost GmbH , which was sold to the Bavarian family company Develey Senf & Feinkost . In 2003, the Dutch brewery Heineken took over the majority of shares in Brau Union.

Attempted restart

The common shares of Mautner Markhof AG (MMAG), which was still a holding company, remained in family ownership ; most recently Manfred Leo Mautner Markhof managed the company's business. Attempts to get back into the delicatessen industry through acquisitions with Matmar AG (including taking over the delicatessen company Spak and the fishing processing company Ozean ), in addition to entering the real estate industry, failed. In 2008 the family holding Mautner Markhof AG (MMAG) ran into financial difficulties. The company should have been "quietly liquidated " after a settlement . On December 23, 2008, the Vienna Commercial Court ordered the bankruptcy of MMAG's assets . Around 80 creditors were affected by the then liabilities of around 27.9 million euros. HMT Industriebeteiligungs GmbH still existed until the deletion in May 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Ignaz Mautner from Markhof. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 165 f. (Direct links on p. 165 , p. 166 ).
  2. ↑ Gerhard A. Stadler: 'It stank terribly, terribly!' Citizens' protest against environmental pollution from the yeast factory , In: Torsten Meyer and Marcus Popplow (eds.): Technology, work and the environment in history , Münster: Waxmann 2006, pp. 395–404, here p. 396
  3. ^ Georg Heinrich Mautner von Markhof. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 166 f. (Direct links on p. 166 , p. 167 ).
  4. ^ Karl Ferdinand Mautner von Markhof. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 167.
  5. ↑ Ulrike Felber u. a .: Economy of Aryanization. Part II: Economic sectors, industries, case studies , Vienna: Oldenbourg 2004, p. 810
  6. ↑ Gerhard A. Stadler: 'It stank terribly, terribly!' Citizens' protest against environmental pollution from the yeast factory , In: Torsten Meyer and Marcus Popplow (eds.): Technology, work and the environment in history , Münster: Waxmann 2006, pp. 395–404
  7. ^ Entry on Mautner Markhof AG in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon ), accessed on October 26, 2012
  8. ↑ http://listofcompanies.co.in/mautner-markhof-nahrungs-und-genussmittel-beteiligungsaktiengesellschaft/ , accessed on October 25, 2012
  9. ↑ Hans Peiniger: Heineken swallows BBAG by 1.5 billion , In: Wirtschaftsblatt , May 3, 2003, http://wirtschaftsblatt.at/archiv/unternehmen/837122/ ( Memento from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Kid Möchel: Out of court settlement planned: Mautner Markhof AG is in financial difficulties. ( Memento from June 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Wirtschaftsblatt , November 14, 2008. Retrieved June 20, 2016
  11. ^ Kid Möchel: Mautner Markhof AG stumbles upon Spak sale. ( Memento from June 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: WirtschaftsBlatt from December 22, 2008. Retrieved on June 20, 2016.
  12. ↑ Entry on Unternehmer24.at , accessed on June 20, 2016.