Otto von Steinbeis
Otto von Steinbeis (born October 7, 1839 in Bachzimmer ; † December 27, 1920 in Brannenburg am Inn) was a German entrepreneur and industrial pioneer.
Life
Otto Steinbeis was born in Bachzimmer in Baden in the former Principality of Fürstenberg , where his father Ferdinand von Steinbeis was head of the Princely Metallurgy. Since his father was awarded the commentary cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown in 1855 , which was associated with the title of nobility, the families have been called "von Steinbeis".
In 1863 Steinbeis was sent to Brannenburg by a consortium of Württemberg industrialists and bankers as managing director of the newly founded company Otto Steinbeis & Consorten . The purpose of the business was to use the local wood stocks, including the foundation of the Kolbermoor Steinbeis & Consorten clay works (1875) for the production of roof fold tiles.
From 1890 the limited partnership was dissolved and continued under the same name as a retail company, i. H. the partners were paid out. At times Steinbeis was also active in the construction industry. With the Munich architects Gabriel and Emanuel von Seidl , he ran the Seidl & Steinbeis construction business at Bavariaring 10 in Munich. In 1900, Emanuel von Seidl took over the renovation of his villa in Brannenburg.
From 1893 Steinbeis started his "Operation Bosnia ". With the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , he signed a first stocking-down agreement for the utilization of fir and spruce wood in Bosnia. The Bosnia company existed until 1918, legal successor after the First World War was the Yugoslav State, the company was renamed ŠIPAD (Šumske industrija, podravka Prijedor ). During the 25 years or so in the Balkans, Steinbeis had created a complete infrastructure for bringing and processing the wood supplies: a narrow-gauge railway network of around 400 km known in the specialist literature as the Steinbeisbahn , sawmills in Dobrljin and Drvar , residential buildings, hospitals, a cellulose factory, a barrel factory and a brick factory.
The profits made it possible for Steinbeis to build the Wendelsteinbahn , the first mountain railway in the Bavarian Alps (opened on May 25, 1912) and to purchase a paper factory in Bruckmühl .
When planning the Wendelsteinbahn, Steinbeis convinced the Bavarian Prince Regent Luitpold to operate it with electrical energy from hydropower.
Steinbeis' entrepreneurial activities subsequently developed after the Second World War into the companies Zweckform (today Avery-Zweckform), Steinbeis-Temming Papier, Steinbeis Packaging (today CCL label) and Steinbeis Gessner (today Neenah Gessner ).
Steinbeis was a secret councilor of commerce and had in 1914 by King Ludwig III. received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown .
His grave is in the Flintsbach am Inn cemetery .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg , Jg. 1866, p. 36 : Royal Orders 1855.
- ↑ Helga Berdan: Austria-Hungary's Power Politics and Railway Construction in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1872 - 1914 (PDF; 8.7 MB), Master's thesis, Vienna 2008
- ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria for the year 1914. Munich 1914. P. 27.
- ↑ Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Bavaria . Munich 2000, p. 39.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steinbeis, Otto von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and industrial pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bach rooms |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1920 |
| Place of death | Brannenburg am Inn |