Schoeller (entrepreneurial family)

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Schoeller is the name of a Rhenish , mostly Reformed family, which has acquired a high status at home and abroad through its wide-ranging entrepreneurial activities. In older documents they are also written: Scolere, Scollere, Scholer, Scholere , as well as Schoeler , whereby the spelling with " oe " has been retained in all lines with a few exceptions.

General family history

Evidently from Joris Schoeler zu Wißgen (approx. 1500 to approx. 1552), most of the members of the family initially worked as Reidemeister in the Eifel and from the beginning of the 18th century came mainly as the founder, partner and manager of numerous important textile companies - , paper , sugar and steel industries as well as packaging technology in appearance. Their own trading and banking house, Schoellerbank, founded in Vienna in 1833 as a wholesaler , was also part of their business empire. Furthermore, they were involved in companies in the coal mining industry , in the construction and railway construction industry , in breweries , as well as in other banking and trading houses. In addition to their original hometowns Schleiden , Gemünd and Hellenthal in the Eifel, mainly in the Düren - Jülich area , the places Eitorf , Osnabrück as well as Breslau , Edelény , Prague , Brno , Zurich , Bregenz , Ternitz , Berndorf , Vienna and many others were among the most important company locations Locations worldwide.

At their respective company locations, they played an important social and economic role in society. For example, they were significantly involved in the planning and expansion of the infrastructure for the sale of their products , especially in railway construction. With their companies, where they sometimes have several hundred employees, they also campaigned early on for in-house employee pension funds , workers' and company health insurance funds and other social benefits for their employees and their families. This included the construction of entire housing estates or the purchase of agricultural goods for growing basic foodstuffs for personal use. However, in the last years of the Second World War they also employed numerous forced laborers , for which they were asked in 2001 within the framework of the “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” foundation to contribute to the corresponding compensation payments.

A large number of family members have been involved in public or political offices outside of their professional activity until now. These included appointments as city councilors, as members of the Prussian House of Representatives or the mansion of the Austrian Imperial Council , as board members in chambers of commerce and trade , as honorary consuls , or as members of numerous supervisory and administrative boards as well as company boards .

To honor their public and social services, a street was named after the Schoeller family in each of the cities of Düren, Osnabrück, Eitorf, Leverkusen and Neunkirchen in Lower Austria . In Düren, Alexander von Schoeller and in Osnabrück Lothar (1883–1957) and Gerhard Schoeller (1886–1970), sons of Felix Hermann, are honored with a street name. In addition, in 1909 in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (2nd district) Schoellerhofgasse was named after the “Schoellerhof” apartment complex built around 1840 by the industrialist Alexander von Schoeller.

For their extraordinary services, several members of the "Brno" and "Viennese branch" with the title of a knight in the hereditary Austrian nobility and Sir Paul Eduard von Schoeller (1853-1920) as a Knight Bachelor in the British nobility . However, in 1919 all living family members and their descendants who were still affected were obliged to delete the additions knight and of from their names on the basis of the nobility annulment law enacted in the same year , provided they had accepted Austrian citizenship.

The members of the Schoeller family have organized themselves into a family association that meets at regular intervals to exchange ideas and to maintain their traditions. To this end, they work together with a renowned history office that constantly reworks both the family history as a whole and the respective company chronicles.

coat of arms

Schoeller coat of arms

With the elevation to the Austrian nobility in 1863, the Schoeller family created a new family coat of arms, using the old and traditional Schoeller coat of arms as the basis, which only had a one-piece coat of arms with gold-black horizontal stripes. This was expanded to include the emblem of a golden comb wheel and an anchor as an old symbol of trade. This anchor became the namesake and company logo for the anchor carpet factory.

The new coat of arms is quartered: in fields 1 and 4 there are three black bars in gold; in field 2 a golden comb wheel in blue; in field 3 in blue a golden anchor with a cross-beam. On this shield two helmets are applied, on the right helmet with black and gold covers a golden lily between an open black flight, on the left with blue and gold covers an open blue flight, each covered with a flying golden bee.

Origins

The family chronicle and most sources assume that the family described here could have been formed from a branch line of the old Rhenish noble family von Schöller based on the Schöller manor in the Wuppertal district of Schöller . A branch of this family seems to have settled in Weiler, today's Gereonsweiler near Jülich, at the beginning of the 15th century , before a branch of this line moved on to Belmen near Jüchen around a hundred years later . After the descendants of this branch had professed their Lutheran faith, some family members moved to the Schleiden Valley, relinquishing their old nobility, due to the subsequent economic disadvantages and the rigid guild law. There, for the first time, one of the aforementioned Jöris Schoeler zu Wißgen acquired a hereditary lease in a ducal ironworks in Gemünd, which was to become the nucleus of the industrial development of the Schoeller family. Another branch settled in the Düren-Jülich area, from which Heinrich Wilhelm Schoeller (1724–1771) moved to Düsseldorf in the middle of the 18th century and founded the Düsseldorf line of the family there. This line included the later Prussian mayor Philipp Schöller with a slightly different spelling and, more recently, the ambassador Franz Jochen Schoeller .

Eifel main line

The descendants of Jöris and his wife Maria from the Reidemeister family , who also lived in the Schleiden Valley, and later the major Düsseldorf industrialist family Poensgen , also became majority Reidemeisters, taking over their parents' businesses or acquiring more in the vicinity. A great-great-grandson of Jöris, Philipp Dietrich Schoeller (1645-1707), was also a lay judge and elder of the evangelical parish of Gemünd who was instrumental in the concerns of the evangelical fellow citizens, granted the persecuted shelter and allowed church services in his house. His great-great-grandson Johann Ludolf Schoeller (1760–1841) bought an ironworks in Hellenthal for the first time, in which his son Wilhelm Arnold (1792–1875), also married to a Poensgen, introduced the machine production of finished goods and thus officially in 1827 the one that still exists today family-owned Schoeller Werk GmbH in Hellenthal .

His brother Friedrich Wilhelm Schoeller (1801–1871) founded in 1845 together with his brother-in-law Albert Poensgen under the name Poensgen & Schoeller in Mauel near Gemünd a factory for wrought iron gas pipes, making them the first entrepreneurs on the European market with this production. In 1850 Albert Poensgen took over the shares in Schoeller and became the sole owner.

Düren line and entrepreneurial expansion

Johann Paul Schoeller (1700–1754), a son from Philipp Dietrich's second marriage, decided to work in the Düren cloth factory of Johann Wilhelm Schoeller, a relative of the old Jülich line, after completing a commercial apprenticeship in Elberfeld , and a little later self-employed in the same place. This made Johann Paul the progenitor of the Düren main line ( see family tables under individual records ). Through his marriage to Magdalena von Scheven (1705–1794), the daughter of the paper manufacturer Rütger von Scheven , his sons were also entitled to inherit the Schevensmühle due to Scheven's childlessness, from which the Schoellershammer paper mill later developed. This created the starting point for the future specialization of the majority of his descendants in the production and sale of high-quality cloths and special papers.

You came here from a business point of view credit, after the French Revolution , the guild law repealed and thus the freedom of trade was introduced. Furthermore, the lifting of the continental blockade in 1814 played just as important a role in their further economic development as the subsequent trade block of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto , which had previously been an important market for their cloths.

Heinrich Leopold Schoeller

For this reason, Johann Paul's grandson Heinrich Heinrich Leopold Schoeller (1792–1884) took the initiative with two of his brothers to apply to Emperor Franz I of Austria for a concession to set up a cloth factory in Brno during the Aachen Monarchy Congress in 1818 , in order to open up new sales markets. On March 19, 1819, the emperor finally approved the establishment of the Schoeller k brothers. k. Fine cloth and wool goods factory , with which the family's business activities abroad began. The management of the company was transferred to their common nephew Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller (1797–1877) in 1820 , who later inherited it and in 1863 was ennobled as an Austrian knight. Philipp Wilhelm and his brother Adolph (1804–1860) became the founder of the Brno branch of the family, which had separated from Johann Paul's first son, Philipp Rütger Schoeller (1725–1805) and which still exists today.

Alexander von Schoeller

In the meantime, another nephew of Heinrich Leopold, Alexander von Schoeller (1805–1886, also ennobled in 1863), also settled in the Austrian Empire . There he founded a trading and banking house in 1833 and then steel factories in Ternitz and in Berndorf with Alfred Krupp the Berndorfer metal goods factory . In addition, he was partly together with his brothers Heinrich Eduard (1803–1879, ennobled 1867) and Johann Paul von Schoeller (1808–1882, ennobled 1867) in coal mining and in the establishment of several sugar factories, including in Edelény in Hungary, Čakovice Prague and Leipnik-Lundenburger in Vienna involved. These companies were initially handed over to the sons of his two brothers, who, due to their own childlessness, bequeathed them to cousins ​​from the Brno branch, who also invested in the brewing sector and in barley factories.

Friedrich August Schoeller, President of the Elberfeld Chamber of Commerce

An uncle of Philipp Wilhelm, who had moved to Brno, Philipp Ludolf Schoeller (1776–1855), moved to Elberfeld, where he was involved in founding several cloth and dyeing factories , as two of his grandchildren in Opladen did the same years later . This branch includes the bankers (Julius) Alexander Schoeller (1852–1911) and his son Alexander Schoeller (1886–1960) as well as the gynecologist Julius Victor Schoeller (1811–1883) and the chemist Walter Julius Viktor Schoeller (1880–1965) ).

Felix Hermann Maria Schoeller and Agnes, b. Böhm, Gretesch Castle

The original Schollershammer paper mill was finally passed on to Johann Paul's second son, Heinrich Wilhelm Schoeller (1745–1827), to his son Heinrich August Schoeller (1788–1863), and it has been operating under the name Heinrich August Schoeller Söhne GmbH & Co KG ever since to the present day. Since not all of Heinrich August's sons could or did not want to participate in the family business, his son Felix Heinrich Schoeller (1821-1893) moved away from Düren after he had previously played a key role in the creation of the Dürener Eisenbahn AG. He took over or founded further paper and cellulose factories first in Neu Kaliss in Mecklenburg , later in Gernsbach ( Grand Duchy of Baden ) and finally in Offingen an der Donau ( Kingdom of Württemberg ). One of his sons, Felix Hermann Maria Schoeller (1855-1907), on the other hand, stayed in northern Germany and took over the Grunersche paper factory in the Osnabrück district of Gretesch , from which the Felix Schoeller Holding GmbH & Co KG , which is still operating worldwide, developed.

Heinrich Leopold Schoeller, already mentioned several times, descended from Johann Paul's third son, Johann Arnold Schoeller (1747–1831), was, in addition to his above-mentioned involvement in Brno, founder of the trading house Schoeller & Daniels in Amsterdam , the worsted spinning mill in Breslau , and several sugar factories in Silesia and in the Düren area and in 1842 his own cloth factory in Düren. In 1852 he converted this into the Düren carpet office for the production of high-quality patterned carpets, which was later renamed to Anker carpet . While Leopold's first son Caesar Schoeller (1822–1887) founded a trading company in New York City , his second son, Rudolf Wilhelm Schoeller (1827–1902), took over the worsted yarn spinning mill in Breslau and then relocated this company to the cities of Bregenz and Zurich, where they are successfully represented on the market in different constellations to this day. In contrast, the descendants of his third son Philipp Eberhard Leopold Schoeller (1830–1896), who himself had remained a successful sugar manufacturer in Silesia, founded in 1889 under the name Leopold jr. & Söhne GmbH & Cie founded the company Schoeller Textil in Huchem-Stammeln, which existed until 2003 .

Heinrich Leopold's fourth son Philipp Nikolaus Ludwig Schoeller (1833-1904) and his descendants were ultimately left with the right to continue, expand and modernize the carpet office, whereas his fifth son Alexander Paul Schoeller (1827-1892) took care of his father's sugar factories and in addition built its own, which later became the Jülich sugar factory . The grandson of this sugar manufacturer, Alexander Schoeller (1911–1973), finally established a completely new company profile for the family. He first specialized in the production of wooden and later on plastic packaging and set up his first packaging factory, which his grandchildren Martin and Christoph expanded from 1982 to become the globally operating Schoeller Holding based in Pullach .

There are currently still numerous companies around the world that have the family name "Schoeller" in their logo and in individual cases operate as independent companies, mostly as subsidiaries or combined in a holding company, and are often still managed by members of the family in a key position.

Family seats (selection)

In line with their high social and economic position, members of the Schoeller family mostly acquired stately villas and mansions at their respective company locations , which they used as residential and / or company headquarters, the most representative of which are listed here as examples.

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Birgel Castle Around 1840, Heinrich Leopold Schoeller was one of the first to take over Birgel Castle , a moated castle from the 13th century, which he completely renovated, expanded and provided with a stately park. His grandson Max Schoeller (1865–1943), chemist and son of the sugar manufacturer Alexander Schoeller and father of the packaging industrialist Max Alexander, sold them in 1913 to a Baron von Diergardt. In 1958 the facility was converted into a primary school. Wasserburg Birgel.JPG
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Villa Schoeller, Wroclaw Leopold's descendants, who were active in Breslau, owned the Villa Schoeller , built in 1905 and named after them, in the district of Borek (Kleinburg) until they were expelled in 1945 . This still existing villa has been used as a 5-star hotel under the current name of Platinum Palace since August 2010 and after several renovations . Willa rodziny Schoellerów.jpg
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Stenitz Castle (Czech. Ctěnice) In 1849 the Viennese industrialist Alexander von Schoeller acquired the Ctěnice Castle near Prague from the estate of Aloisia Countess Desfours and also bought the Čakovice and Miškovice estates. The Schoeller family owned the castle for almost a hundred years until it was expropriated on November 24, 1945 as a result of the Beneš decrees . Ctenice Castle.jpg
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Lewenz Castle (Slovak. Levice) In addition, in 1867, Alexander von Schoeller acquired Levice Castle in Levice from the Esterházy family as a family seat, which, like the Levice estate, remained in the family until 1945. Léva - Schöller kastély 1910.jpg
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Ratschitz Castle (Czech Račice) Sir Paul Eduard Ritter von Schoeller, nephew of Alexander von Schoeller and director of the trading house Schoeller & Co in Vienna and Schoellerbank, initially acquired Račice Castle from a Baron von Palm in 1894 , which was also expropriated in 1945 Racicky zamek.jpg
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Palais Corbelli-Schoeller Around 1905 Sir Paul Eduard von Schoeller acquired the baroque Palais Corbelli-Schoeller in Vienna, which he had extensively expanded. Since he himself remained childless, he bequeathed this to his nephew and adopted son Gustav Neufeldt-Schoeller, son of his sister Emma and the wholesaler Karl Neufeldt (* 1838), for whom he also managed the transfer of nobility and names in 1911. Palais Corbelli-Schöller Johannesg 7.JPG
Schoeller Palace Gustav Adolph von Schoeller had the Schoeller Palace built in 1868 as a family and official residence in Brno based on plans by the architect Joseph Arnold on the site of a demolished chapel. The palace remained in the family until 1945. Gustav Adolf von Schoeller Palace 01.JPG
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Villa Benker and Schoellerhof The paper manufacturer Felix Heinrich Schoeller was the owner of the stately "Villa Benker" during his time in Offingen. His grandson Felix Heribert Schoeller (1881-1958), son of Felix Hermann Maria, the company founder in Gretesch / Osnabrück, bought Gut Gneven near Schwerin in 1925 , which he sold on to his paper mill in Neu-Kaliss two years later Grandfather Felix Heinrich founded and in whose leadership he had now moved up. In 1945 he bought a land area of ​​211 hectares near Osnabrück for this purpose, on which he had a manor house with associated farm buildings, now called "Schoellerhof", built. His aim was to permanently supply the factory workers with basic food. The Schoellerhof remained in family ownership until 1973, but was finally converted into a legal foundation under civil law in 2006 by the heirs of the subsequent owners. Offingen, Villa Benker, Aberthamerstraße 2010.jpg
Hard tower After Rudolf Wilhelm Schoeller had relocated his worsted yarn factory from Wroclaw to Zurich in 1865 , he first acquired the area around the Hardturm in Zurich as new company premises and in 1882 the tower itself as a living and assembly room. From 1979 the entire property flowed into the real estate and management company "Hardturm AG", which is part of the Schoeller Spinning Group . Hardturm.jpg
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Schoellergut Rudolf Wilhelm's son Arthur Schoeller-Ziesing bought his villa and observatory from the natural scientist Eduard Kann in the Enge district in 1883 . In 1934 his son, Friedrich Arthur Schoeller, President of the Eidgenössische Bank, had the villa demolished and the villa Schoeller, which still exists today, was built by the architect Richard von Muralt. He paid particular attention to the design of the surrounding park. The villa and its outbuildings are used today by the Freudenberg and Enge canton schools . Many names such as “Schoellerpark”, “Musikvilla Schoeller” or “Turnhalle Schoellergut” are still reminiscent of the successful entrepreneurial family of German descent from Zurich. Freudenberg old villa.jpg
Villa Liebenstein Arthur Frederick Schoeller (1881-1953), grandson of Rudolf Wilhelm and Director of the Bregenz branches, acquired where in 1910 the Villa Liebenstein , which was expanded as well as the associated parks extensively his son Rudolf and 1953 to the & Schoeller GmbH & Co. KG sold . Since 1982 the villa has belonged to the city of Bregenz, which set up the city music school there. VillaLiebenstein1.jpg
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Patronage and public relations

The Schoeller family has not only distinguished itself in the Düren-Jülich area and at many of its company locations through entrepreneurial achievements, but also through the establishment of various foundations and social institutions as well as in taking on public and political offices.

Heinrich Leopold Schoeller, for example, made a significant contribution to the Protestant community in Düren, donating the property in 1832 to build a “boys-family school”, also known as the “Evangelical city school”, which later became a high school and finally the high school at Wirteltor Düren emerged . Numerous descendants of Leopold continued to be active in the material and financial support of this institution in the following decades, for example within the framework of the higher regional judge Walter Schoeller Foundation .

Schenkel-Schoeller-Stift, Niederau

Heinrich Leopold Schoeller's sister, Catharina, married Schenkel , set up the Schenkel-Schoeller pension institution in Düren in 1852 , from which the Schenkel-Schoeller-Stift retirement home, which was rebuilt in Niederau in 1953, emerged .

The Anna-Schoeller-Haus , a facility for the blind and senior citizens in Düren, built in 1899 , came from a financial and property donation from the Kommerzienrat Philipp Nikolaus Ludwig Schoeller, son of Heinrich Leopold, and his wife Anna Schoeller, née Schoeller (1839-1911), Daughter of the paper manufacturer Felix Heinrich Schoeller.

The establishment of the St. Augustine Hospital in Lendersdorf , which was put into operation on August 10, 1897 , goes back to a foundation by Benno Vitus Schoeller (1828–1908), son of Heinrich August . In addition, he contributed considerable financial support to the city of Düren for their acquisition of Burgau Castle .

Named after Caesar Schoeller, the son of Heinrich Leopold, the Caesar Schoeller Foundation was established one year after his death . This takes care of the care of minors regardless of their denomination and especially of the support of young people who are dependent on the help of others either because of their physical, mental or emotional state or because of their economic situation. This foundation is currently headed by Jochen Schoeller, one of the founder's great-great-grandsons.

The Hubertus Schoeller Foundation , founded in 2004, supports regular exhibitions on concrete art and collections from family property in Düren's Leopold Hoesch Museum .

In contrast, Walter Schoeller (1889–1979), manager of the Schoeller company in Zurich and himself a successful and versatile high-performance athlete, sponsored competitive sport. Among other things, he bought the Hardturm Stadium in 1934 after a devastating fire and donated it free of charge to the Grasshopper Club Zurich football club so that it could pay for the rebuilding as well as other running costs.

Family company (selection of former and current)

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Schoeller Werk GmbH , Hellenthal Founded in 1827 by Wilhelm Arnold Schoeller, a pioneer in the automatic production of nails and rivets made of wire on the European mainland. After the commissioning of the first tube welding lines in 1959 and the introduction of laser welding technology in 1991, the company now produces over 50,000 t of stainless steel tubes per year on more than 100 welding lines.
Gebr. Schoeller kk Fine cloth and wool goods factory , Brno was founded by the brothers Johann Peter, Carl Friedrich and Heinrich Leopold Schoeller with the permission of Emperor Franz I of Austria on March 19, 1819. Since the brothers wanted to continue to work mainly in their Düren plants, they transferred the company to their nephew Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller, which then remained in the family until the expropriation in 1945.
Wholesale house Schoeller & Co. , Vienna
later Schoellerbank 		founded by imperial decree (Maria Theresian concession) on July 20, 1833 by Alexander von Schoeller in Vienna. Converted to a stock corporation from 1979, the company became a 100% subsidiary of Bank Austria from 2001 after a few intermediate stops . Prior to this, the spin-off of the numismatic division in 1989 created Schoeller Münzhandel , a trading company for classic and modern numismatics and precious metal investment products based in Vienna, which was taken over in 2005 as a subsidiary of the Austrian Mint . Until the retirement of General Director Herbert von Schoeller (1930-2004) in 1994, descendants of the Schoeller family were continuously represented in the management of Schoellerbank. Schoellerbank-logo.gif
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Berndorfer Metallwarenfabrik was founded in 1843 by Alexander von Schoeller together with Alfred Krupp . From 1891 the company became the sole owner of Arthur Krupp , Alfred's nephew, and from 1984 became a subsidiary of Österreichische Industrieholding AG . Berndorf Factory (5) .JPG
Schoeller Stahlwerke (Theresienhütte), Ternitz founded by Alexander von Schoeller in 1862, which merged with Bleckmann Stahlwerke in Mürzzuschlag to form Schoeller-Bleckmann Stahlwerke AG in 1924 . In 1946 these were nationalized and are now also part of Österreichische Industrieholding AG. Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment , an Austrian listed manufacturer of high-precision parts for the oilfield service industry based in Ternitz , was created in 1988 by outsourcing . KraftzentraleSchöller-BleckmannTernitz.jpg
Schoeller's worsted yarn spinning mill , Breslau, Eitorf, Bregenz, Zurich acquired in 1849 by Heinrich Leopold Schoeller. In 1867 his son Rudolf Wilhelm Schoeller relocated the headquarters to Zurich and founded further branches in Bregenz, Zurich-West (Hardturm) and Sevelen SG, among others . Other plants such as those in Eitorf and Süßen were added. In the meantime, the Swiss branches merged to form Schoeller Switzerland with its headquarters in Sevelen. In 1979, the combined company changed its name to Albers & Co . In 2009, individual subsidiaries merged to form the new Schoeller Spinnerei Group based in Zurich as part of a reorganization . SchöllerArealBregenz2.jpg

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Anchor carpet , Düren was founded by Heinrich Leopold Schoeller as a carpet office and branch of his cloth factory in 1854. To this day and after six generations, the company with a long and eventful history has been continuously owned by the family. Markus Schoeller was the managing director (1961–2015). Schoeller was the son of the married couple Alexander and Marion Schoeller. He studied textile technology and industrial engineering. In 1993, six years after the death of his parents, he joined the company. At first he was head of the print shop and later worked in the development department. In 1998, Schoeller became production manager and was given full power of attorney . Since 2000 he was managing director. Schoeller lived in Nideggen . Markus Schoeller was honorary chairman of the Düren district hunters' association and chairman of the Rhenish Association for the Blind . Markus Schoeller died on October 5, 2015. ANKER Logo.png

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Schoeller Textil , Huchem-Stammeln founded in 1889 as Leopold Schoeller jr. GmbH & Cie by Leopold Schoeller (1862–1907), son of Philipp Eberhard Leopold Schoeller. The company remained family-owned for four generations. Although Schoeller Textil was one of the leading and top-selling spinning mills in Germany, production in Huchem-Stammeln was discontinued in 2000 and relocated to Litvínov in the Czech Republic, and the company itself was sold to the Indian Spentex Group . Then-stammering Huchem was established in 2003 at the site together with the GmbH STS transport service Schmalkalden the Schoeller Industrial Logistics GmbH & Co. KG . Schoellertextil.JPG

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Schoellershammer paper mill , Krauthausen Founded in 1784 by Heinrich Wilhelm Schoeller by converting a former iron hammer and merging it with the Schevenmühle von Rütger von Scheven under inheritance law in 1773. In 1862 another paper mill, called Neumühle , was built by the brothers Julius (1820–1876) and Benno Schoeller (1828–1908). In 1981 this was sold to the company Zanders Feinpapiere in Bergisch Gladbach , which was incorporated in 1991 into the subsidiary Kanzan Spezialpapiere GmbH , which was founded a year earlier and which has belonged to the Japanese Ōji Seishi group since 2000 . The old Schoellershammer paper mill, on the other hand, continues to exist as an independent company under the company name Heinrich August Schoeller Söhne GmbH & Co KG with worldwide sales. Schoellershammer logo.svg
Felix Heinrich Schoeller paper mill , Düren Founded in 1857 by Felix Heinrich Schoeller, remained in family ownership until 1965 and then also became part of M-Real Zanders GmbH as M-real Zanders Reflex . In 2012 the work was sold to Hahnemühle FineArt GmbH and has been called Reflex since then . Reflex Premium Paper Dueren.jpg
Paper mill Felix Schoeller & Bausch , Neu Kaliss (Mecklenburg) acquired in 1872 by Felix Heinrich Schoeller and Theodor Bausch, dissolved and dismantled in 1945, then reissued by Viktor Bausch , VEB from 1950.
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Paper mill Schoeller & Hoesch GmbH & Co KG , Gernsbach Founded again in 1881 by Felix Heinrich Schoeller together with Georg Schultz as the Schultz & Cie cellulose factory with a focus on cigarette paper and later tea bag paper production. In 1998 Schoeller & Hoesch was taken over by the American manufacturer Glatfelter GmbH & Co KG . Glatfelter Gernsbach IMGP8595.JPG
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Felix Schoeller Group , Osnabrück-Gretesch In 1895, Felix Hermann Maria Schoeller, a son of Felix Heinrich, bought the Grunersche paper factory and specialized in the production of high-quality photo paper from the start . Until the beginning of the 21st century, descendants of Felix Hermann sat in the management of the company, which is now represented worldwide as Felix Schoeller Holding GmbH & Co KG through numerous acquisitions and mergers . Felix Schoeller Osnabrück.jpg
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Schoeller, Peill & Brockhoff , later the Düren sugar factory founded on June 23, 1869 by Heinrich Leopold Schoeller, Leopold Peill (1846–1925), who was also the company's first managing director for 56 years, and Julius Brockhoff (1824–1898). From 1890 was Leopold Peill sole owner by name changed to L. Peill & Co . It was not until 1922 that Walter Schoeller (1895–1954), a grandson of Leopold Peill, joined the company again as a member of the Schoeller family, which he managed from 1925 onwards. His descendants ran the company until 1987 and then brought it to the Cologne-based company Pfeifer & Langen , which had previously acquired shares. The production in Düren was stopped in 1987. Zuckerfabrikdueren.JPG
Sugar factory Alexander Schoeller & Julius Brockhoff KG , Jülich founded in 1880 by Alexander Paul Schoeller (1837–1892) and his brother-in-law Julius Brockhoff. Renamed to Zuckerfabrik Jülich AG after Alexander's death , this was also taken over by Pfeifer & Langen after several intermediate stops in 2006 and is the last existing sugar factory in the Düren district to produce under the name "Westzucker". Sugar factory Jülich 1923 1000 Mk.jpg

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Ewald Schoeller GmbH & Co KG , Langerwehe Founded in 1943 by Ewald Schoeller as a factory for paper products and yarns, switched to the production of plastic containers and plastic films made of polyethylene in 1966 . After taking over the film manufacturer Aldo-Plast from Alsdorf , the company changed its name to Schoeller-Aldo GmbH & Co. KG , but was split back into Aldoplast GmbH & Co KG and Alesco GmbH & Co KG in 2007 .
Schoeller Industries , Pullach Company for packaging, logistics and recycling, founded in 1937 by Alexander Schoeller (1911–1973), son of the sugar manufacturer and Africa researcher Max Schoeller , initially as a factory for packaging technology. Alexander Schoeller was considered a pioneer in the field of wooden beverage packaging and invented the plastic bottle crate in 1958. Since 1982 the company has been run as a holding company with several global subsidiaries, including Schoeller Allibert , by his sons Martin and Christoph Schoeller.
Schoeller Holdings Ltd. , Limassol / Cyprus founded in 1978 by Heinrich Felix Leopold Schoeller. These include ship management such as Columbia Ship Management and the Columbia Hotels & Resorts hotel group .

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literature

  • Hans Joachim Ramm:  Schoeller, entrepreneurial family. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 364-366 ( digitized version ).
  • Hugo Schoeller, August Victor Schoeller: History of the Schoeller Family , 2 volumes. R. Eisenschmid, Berlin 1894. New edition by Stedman and Wallmoden 1994, ISBN 3-9803288-2-1
  • Adelheid von Saldern : Networks and Corporate Development in the Early 19th Century: The Example of the Schoeller Houses. In: Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte / Journal of Business History . Verlag CH Beck, Volume 53, No. 2 2008, pp. 147-176. (on-line)
  • Adelheid von Saldern: Network Economy in the Early 19th Century. The example of the Schoeller houses . Stuttgart 2009.
  • Adelheid von Saldern: Entrepreneur families and their relatives. The Schoeller Houses in the early 19th century. In: Susanne Hilger, Ulrich D. Soénius (eds.): Family businesses in the Rhineland in the 19th and 20th centuries . Cologne 2009, pp. 25–44
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  • Heinrich Elija Benedikt: Alexander von Schoeller 1805–1886 - A picture of life - For the 125th anniversary of the Schoeller & Co company, Vienna . Spieß and Co, Vienna 1958.
  • Hans Freiherr von Dumreicher: 100 years of Haus Schoeller - from the past and the present . Self-published, 2nd edition Vienna 1934
  • 1850–1925, From the past and present of economic events in the district of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for the districts of Aachen-Land, Düren u. Jülich zu Stolberg (Rhld.) . 1925.
  • Burkhard Nadolny : Felix Heinrich Schoeller and the art of paper making in Düren. A life picture from the early days . Baden-Baden 1957.
  • Hans Michael Gallenkamp: Positive paper. A vision. 100 years of Felix Schoeller . Felix Schoeller Group, Osnabrück 1995.
  • Josef Geuenich: History of the paper industry in the Düren-Jülich economic area . Hamel, Düren 1959.
  • Hugo Albert Schoeller: My paper you are a wonderful thing RVS 1710-1960 . Self-published, 1960.
  • Hermann Kellenbenz : The sugar industry in the Cologne area from the Napoleonic period to the founding of the empire . Industrial u. Chamber of Commerce, Cologne 1966.
  • Lutz Hatzfeld: The establishment of the German tube industry by the company Poensgen & Schöller, Mauel 1844-1850 . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-515-00079-8
  • 150 years of ANKER carpeting (1854–2004) . ANKER-Carpeting Gebr. Schoeller GmbH + Co. KG (publisher), Düren 2004.

Web links

Commons : Schoeller family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

Family tree Schoeller family (short extract)
Family tree Schoeller family (short extract)
  1. ↑ Manfred Bierganz: Prisoners of War as cheap labor in: Dürener Nachrichten of January 26, 1989 ( Memento of the original of July 20, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.6 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duereninfo.de
  2. ↑ History Office for Company History ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschichtsbuero.de
  3. ↑ Coat of arms of the Schoeller family on page 5 ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschichtsbuero.de
  4. ^ Lutz Hatzfeld: The establishment of the German tube industry by the company Poensgen & Schöller, Mauel 1844–1850
  5. ↑ Philipp von Schoeller's rise to the nobility
  6. ↑ Chronicle of Birgel Castle
  7. ^ History of the Villa Schoeller / Platinum Palace
  8. ↑ Palais Corbelli-Schoeller on Burgen-Austria
  9. ^ Foundation Schoellerhof Osnabrück
  10. ↑ Hardturm Chronicle
  11. ↑ Kantonsschule Enge, Annual Report 2003/4 ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Lina Giusto: "Parkring 50. Only the pergola is reminiscent of the lost Villa Kann". In: Limmattaler Zeitung, February 24, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.impulsmittelschule.ch
  12. ^ Building history of the Villa Liebenstein
  13. ^ History of the Düren secondary school
  14. ↑ History of the Schenkel-Schoeller-Stift
  15. ↑ Chronicle of Anna Schoeller House
  16. ↑ History of St. Augustine Hospital
  17. ↑ Entry in the list of foundations in NRW
  18. ^ Hubertus Schoeller Foundation
  19. ↑ Harturm Stadium Foundation
  20. ↑ History of Schoellerwerk GmbH Hellenthal ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schoellerwerk.de
  21. ↑ History Gebr. Schoeller Brünn
  22. ↑ Report 175 years of Schoellerbank ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.5 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schoellerbank.at
  23. ^ History of Berndorf AG
  24. ↑ Schoeller-Bleckmann in the Austrian Lexicon
  25. ↑ History of Schoeller Switzerland
  26. ↑ Reorganization of the "Schoeller Spinning Group"
  27. ↑ 150 years of Anker carpet (PDF; 11.7 MB)
  28. ↑ The entrepreneur Markus Schoeller is dead in: Aachener Zeitung of October 7, 2015
  29. ↑ Schoeller Industrielogistik ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schoellerindustrielogistik.de
  30. ↑ Schoellershammer history  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / schoellershammer.wewico.com  
  31. ↑ 150 years of papermaking at the Reflex plant
  32. ↑ History of Schoeller & Bausch
  33. ↑ History of the Felix Schoeller Group Gretesch ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.felix-schoeller.com
  34. ↑ History of the Düren sugar factory ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.7 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschichtswerkstatt-dueren.de
  35. ↑ Pfeifer & Langen locations ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pfeifer-langen.de
  36. ↑ History of the Schoeller Group Pullach (PDF; 1.4 MB)