Maximilian Schüller

Maximilian Schüller (born March 25, 1860 in Prague , † February 28, 1932 in Vienna ) was a Czech-Austrian industrialist . In the late 19th and early 20th centuries he was one of the early entrepreneurs in the textile industry in Austria.

Schüller was the son of a commercial agent and originally worked as a businessman himself. At the end of the 1880s he began to build up his company Schüller & Co. , which produced knitted and warp knitted goods on an industrial scale. For this purpose the company built and bought factories in Lower Austria , for example in St. Pölten and Litschau (since 1894). Schüller's company was an important textile manufacturer in the Habsburg Monarchy . In 1910, the grown company was converted into a stock corporation based in Vienna and was now called Schüller & Co. AG . The focus was on knitting yarn and hosiery. After Schüller's death, the company lasted until the 1980s.

Maximilian Schüller owned the majority of shares in Schüller & Co. AG , from 1913 he was its vice-president and from 1923 the president of the supervisory board . He was also a member of the Permanent Commission for Commercial Values ​​at the Ministry of Commerce and, as such, Commercial Council . In addition, Schüller was president for many years, then honorary president of the association of knitters and knitters.

literature

• Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 , Volume 11, 1998, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 291.