Robert Schoeller

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the Austrian painter of the same name see Robert Schöller (* 1950).

Robert Schoeller (from 1911 to 1919: Robert Ritter von Schoeller ; born July 25, 1873 in Adamsthal , Moravia , † June 7, 1950 in Vienna ) was an Austrian industrialist in the sugar industry .

Life

The son of the entrepreneur Adolph Philipp Schoeller (1832–1885), who founded the first felt cloth factory in Brno , initially trained in the textile industry after leaving school, but switched to the food industry after just a few years. At the end of the 19th century, Schoeller first joined the Chropiner Zuckerfabrik AG, founded in 1868, with a sales office in Vienna, and was jointly responsible for the economic upturn in the following years. After the company split up into an independent Czechoslovak plant in Chropin and an Austrian one in Leopoldsdorf in 1924 , Schoeller was appointed head of the Austrian plant.

In the meantime, in 1902, Schoeller had also taken over the management of the Dürnkruter sugar factory founded in 1844 and now technically desolate , which was the first sugar factory on Austrian soil. Over the next 35 years or so, Schoeller transformed this company into a modern and economically successful model company, in which the earnings could be increased fourfold. The merger of the Dürnkruter Zuckerfabrik with the Leipnik-Lundenburger Zuckerfabriken AG , of which he has been a member of the board since 1914 under Richard, proved to be of particular advantage here, together with his brother-in-law Richard von Skene (I) (1867–1947) from Skene was. After the destruction in World War II , Schoeller was again significantly involved in the early reconstruction of the factories in both Dürnkrut and Leopoldsdorf and the associated rapid resumption of production.

In addition to his full-time obligations Robert Schoeller belonged among other things still the boards by his cousin Richard Schoeller led Schoeller-Bleckmann Stahlwerke AG, Hammerbrotwerke GmbH , since 1937 a subsidiary of the Vienna wholesale and Bankhaus Schoeller & Co. , which later became Schoellerbank and of the Styrian Magnesite Industry AG .

Robert Schoeller retired in 1948 and died two years later in the same year as his cousin Richard. From this he had already in 1911 together with his brother, the Ordonnanzoffizier Major Friedrich von Schoeller (1872-1917), received the imperially approved transfer of the Austrian nobility and was allowed to call himself Robert Ritter von Schoeller. But in 1919 he had to remove these additions from his name due to the Nobility Repeal Act in Austria.

literature

• E. Lebensaft, Ch. Mentschl:  Schoeller, Robert von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 28.
• Hugo Schoeller, August Victor Schoeller: History of the Schoeller Family , 2 volumes. Eisenschmid, Berlin 1894; New edition by Stedman and Wallmoden, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-980-32882-1 .
• Hans Freiherr von Dumreicher: 100 Years of the Schoeller House - from the past and the present , 2nd edition, self-published, Vienna 1934.
• Franz Mathis: Big Business in Austria , Part 1: Brief descriptions of large Austrian companies . Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-53771-7 .
• Johann Slokar: History of Austrian Industry and its Promotion by Emperor Franz I. , Tempsky, Vienna 1914.