Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller (industrialist, 1845)
Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller (born April 18, 1845 in Vienna ; † February 20, 1916 in Gries-Quirein ) was a German-Austrian entrepreneur and banker as well as an art photographer .
Life
Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller came from the Viennese line of the Rhenish entrepreneurial family Schoeller and was the son of the businessman Johann Paul von Schoeller (1808–1882) and his wife Pauline (1812–1877), who was born in Düren , worked in Vienna and was ennobled in 1867. She was also a born Schoeller and daughter of the Düren cloth manufacturer Johann Peter Schoeller (1778-1838), a brother of Leopold Schoeller . After training and studying, Philipp Wilhelm was involved early on in the various companies of his uncle Alexander von Schoeller , together with his brother Sir Paul Eduard von Schoeller and his cousin Gustav Adolph von Schoeller . After Alexander's death in 1886 and only three years later made death of his cousin Gustav Adolph were Philip William and Paul Eduard used in 1889 to heir of the company's empire, which among other things, the wholesale and Bankhaus Schoeller & Co. in Vienna, later Schoellerbank , the Shares in the Berndorfer Metallwarenfabrik , the Ternitzer Walzwerk- und Stahlfabrikations AG, which later became Schoeller-Bleckmann Stahlwerke , as well as agricultural goods and associated factories for sugar, bread and beer production.
In addition, Schoeller was a member of the boards of directors of several banks as well as the Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn and was appointed to the General Council of the Austro-Hungarian Bank from 1884 , where he played a key role in the reforms and restructuring of this institute in those years. Quite soon, however, he gradually withdrew from the various divisions of the family business and left the majority of the management to his brother. He only held the function of presidency of the “ Hütteldorfer Brauerei AG” from 1892 to 1898 and, together with his brother, the duties of an imperial and royal purveyor to the court . In addition, he was involved in politics and in 1895 was elected a lifelong member of the mansion of the Austrian Reichsrat for the moderately liberal constitutional party.
But Schoeller's great passion was photography , to which he devoted more and more time. He took lessons from the photographers Wilhelm Burger and Hans Lenhard and in 1893 he joined the Wiener Kameraclub , whose presidency he took over two years later, and the Photographic Society in Vienna, where he was made an honorary member in 1907. On many recreational trips to Italy, Dalmatia and North Africa, which he undertook because of his poor health, numerous photographs were taken that he developed in his own modern studio. Schoeller was particularly successful with rubber printing and three-color photography. Schoeller was represented with his works at the anniversary exhibition of the Photographic Society in 1901 .
Schoeller wanted to share his passion for photography with others and was not only a sponsor of the amateur photography movement, but also donated a scholarship with the purpose of enabling talented but poor students to train at the kk teaching and research institute for photography and reproduction processes in Vienna . In addition, he was involved in the evangelical community life of Vienna and was among other things the founder for the establishment of the evangelical parish HB Wien-West and the construction of its parish church, the Zwingli Church .
Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller, who remained unmarried throughout his life, was buried in the Grinzing cemetery (group ML, no. 12).
Literature and Sources
- E. Life: Schoeller, Philipp Wilhelm von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 26 f. (Direct links on p. 26 , p. 27 ).
- Hugo Schoeller, August Victor Schoeller: History of the Schoeller Family , 2 volumes. R. Eisenschmid, Berlin 1894. New edition by Stedman and Wallmoden 1994, ISBN 3-980-32882-1 .
- Hans Freiherr von Dumreicher: 100 Years of the Schoeller House - from the past and the present , self-published, 2nd edition Vienna 1934
- Franz Mathis: Big Business in Austria, Austrian Large Companies in Briefs , Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-53771-7 .
- Johann Slokar: History of Austrian Industry and its Promotion by Emperor Franz I. , F. Tempsky-Verlag, Vienna 1914.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ † Philipp Ritter v (on) Schoeller. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 18500/1916, February 22, 1916, p. 9, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Hedwig Abraham (Red.): Schoeller Philipp Wilhelm, Ritter . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on November 10, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schoeller, Philipp Wilhelm von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian entrepreneur and banker as well as art photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1916 |
| Place of death | Semolina quirein |