Rudolf Maria von Rohrer

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Rudolf Maria von Rohrer (born September 6, 1838 in Brno ; † December 6, 1914 there ) was a printer, publisher and politician in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy .

Life

Rudolf Maria Rohrer was a son of the publisher Rudolf Rohrer . He lost his father as a toddler, attended grammar school and from 1852 worked as an intern in the family-owned printing company founded by Joseph Georg Traßler in 1786 . In the years 1855 and 1856 he attended the technical college of his birthplace , from 1857 to 1859 he completed his training in companies in Opava , Vienna , Magdeburg , Osnabrück and Prague . From 1860 he held the technical management of his inherited company, and in the following year he also took over the overall management. From 1887 his son Rudolf also worked in Rohrer's printing house, which developed into one of the largest and best-known printing and publishing houses in the country. Among other things, she was represented at the world exhibitions in Vienna in 1873 and in Paris in 1878 , where she was honored and honored. In 1874 he became an honorary member of the Arminia Brno fraternity .

In addition to historical, local and economic studies, Rohrer also published works of fiction , as well as specialist newspapers and official printed matter. He also printed numerous books for Viennese and German publishers. Rudolf Rohrer the Younger added the printer and the Friedrich Irrgang publishing house to the family business, which published the daily messenger from Moravia and Silesia . In 1905 the company moved to a new building.

Rudolf Maria von Rohrer was also politically active and emerged in public life. For a time he was vice mayor of his hometown Brno and a member of the Moravian state parliament . He took on leading positions in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as well as in the District School Council and in the Brno Gymnastics Club. He was also one of the founders of the Moravian Trade Association. He founded the Austrian Fire Brigade Association , of which he was temporarily chairman, as well as the Österreichische Verbands-Feuerwehr-Zeitung and became chairman of the Brno Turner Fire Brigade .

In 1914 Rudolf Maria Rohrer was ennobled. He died that same year. His son Rudolf had died in 1913. His widow Margarethe Rohrer, b. Krackhardt, took over the printing business. Together with her son Friedrich, born in 1895, she moved the company to Lower Austria by leasing the Wladaz printing company in Baden in 1920 and buying it in 1924.

Honors

He was an honorary citizen of numerous parishes.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 106-107.
  • A. Durstmüller:  Rohrer Rudolf Maria von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 216.
  • Anton Altrichter and Gustav Künstle, Rudolf M. Rohrer for a century and a half, 1786-1936. The story of a German printer and publisher family , Brno 1937

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brno on ome-lexikon.uni-oldenburg.de
  2. ^ Rohrer, Rudolf Maria von (1838–1914), printer, publisher and politician , in: ÖBL 1815–1950, Vol. 9 (Lfg. 43, 1986), p. 216 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: DBE . Walter de Gruyter, January 1, 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25038-5 , p. 507.
personal data
SURNAME Rohrer, Rudolf Maria von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohrer, Rudolf; Rohrer, Rudolf Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publisher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1914
Place of death Brno