Max Schoeller

Max Schoeller (born July 28, 1865 in Düren ; † 1943 ) was a German sugar manufacturer and ethnologist .

family

Max Schoeller came from the Düeren entrepreneurial family Schoeller . His father was Alexander Paul Schoeller (1837–1892), founder of the Jülich sugar factory . His mother was Adele, b. Carstanjen. The Secret Commerce Councilor Leopold Schoeller was his grandfather. Rudolf Wilhelm Schoeller and Leopold Schoeller were his uncles. He was married to Elly Wessel (1883–1929). The packaging industrialist Max Alexander Schoeller (1911–1973) was their son.

Life

After attending secondary school in Cologne and Düren, Max Schoeller studied chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Corps Bavaria . In 1890 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. He then took on a job at the Schoeller & Skene sugar factory until 1891 . In 1892 he became a board member of the Jülich sugar factory, Alex. Schoeller & Co. AG . He was also chairman of the supervisory board of Sudenburger Maschinen AG , Berliner Hypothekenbank AG and Rath, Schoeller & Skene AG .

After a first long study trip to Egypt and Asia Minor in 1893, Schoeller undertook a scientific expedition to Colonia Erythrea in northern Abyssinia, on which he was accompanied by Georg Schweinfurth and Alfred Kaiser . From 1896 to 1897 he then undertook a one-year large-scale scientific expedition to Equatorial East Africa and Uganda. Alfred Kaiser and Carl Georg Schillings were once again among his companions . In 1897 a third expedition took him to South Africa and Rhodesia. Schoeller bequeathed his extensive ethnological and ethnographic collection to the Ethnological Museum in Berlin.

After his return to Germany in 1898, Schoeller devoted himself to colonial interests. From 1900 to 1910 he was a member of the Colonial Council . In addition, he was chairman of the supervisory board of the Northwest Cameroon Society , the Sakarre Coffee Plantation AG, the East African Mining and Planting AG and the German-East African Society .

Awards and honors

Iron Cross 2nd class
Red Eagle Order 4th class
Order of Frederick 3rd class
Order of the Iron Crown (Austria) 3rd class (but without elevation to the nobility)
Order of the Italian Crown 3rd Class
Ducal Saxony-Ernestine House Order 4th class with swords
Order of the Redeemer 4th class
Medschidije medal 2nd class with star
Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa 2nd class with a star
Order of the Sun and Lions 2nd class with star
Turkish Medal for Art and Science
Name giver for the Aloe schoelleri first described by Georg Schweinfurth

Fonts

Knowledge of o-chloroquinoline and its derivatives , 1890
Messages about my journey in the Colonia Erythrea, Northern Abyssinia , 1895
Notices about my trip to Equatorial East Africa and Uganda (three volumes)

literature

Schoeller, Max. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , pp. 1687–1688.
Schoeller, Max. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 2020.

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Individual evidence

^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 220.

personal data
SURNAME	Schoeller, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sugar manufacturer and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 28, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Düren
DATE OF DEATH	1943

[1] Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 220.