Siegmund Fischl

Siegmund Fischl (born December 27, 1847 in Miskowitz , Bohemia , † May 2, 1905 in Prague ) was an Austrian industrialist and landowner.

Life

The large Bohemian industrialist and Carinthian estate and factory owner Siegmund Fischl was one of the most important alcohol and yeast producers in the monarchy , who paid over three million guilders in monopoly taxes in a single financial year. From 1891 the company also had a factory in Carinthia. Fischl had bought the spirit and yeast factory founded by Franz Punschart in Limmersach, but closed at the time, and put it back into operation in October 1892 to supply Carinthia with alcohol and yeast from the south of the empire . In the years before the turn of the century, 1899/1900, the facilities were modernized and expanded. In 1895 Limmersach received an open-air storage facility for spirits , in 1897 a new agricultural distillery and in 1898 an additional malt factory .

Limmersach was between Ebenthal and Klagenfurt on the large lime tree avenue with its own bridle paths on both sides of the road. The multi-storey stately mansion formed the eye-catcher of the property . In 1901, business connections with the Balkans were established and another factory was built in Bosnia . In the Limmersach plant, the technicians developed a special process for the production of compressed yeast , for which Fischl received a patent . Limmersach was connected to Klagenfurt Central Station by an industrial track. In 1901 the Klagenfurt-based machine manufacturer Ludwig Moschner suggested the establishment of a Carinthian section of the Association of Austrian Industrialists, which had existed since 1897, and in the late winter of 1902 he and Siegmund Fischl, Paul Hatheyer , Philipp Knoch , Otto Lemisch and Otto Madile launched an appeal to the Carinthian industrialists to join the federal government and thus enable the establishment of the section. In July 1902 this was carried out, the executive director of Limmersach, Emil Popper , became one of the two deputy chairmen. In addition to the factories, the Fischl property in Carinthia also included farms and estates. In 1904 Fischl acquired the Landgrave's Portendorf estate near Klagenfurt, the castle of which had been blown up shortly before due to its dilapidation. Fischl lived only for his industrial interests, he was not available for public functions and offices. He had only accepted the honorary positions of a censor at the Austro-Hungarian Bank and the Böhmische Sparkasse. His wife had given birth to two sons: Josef and Ernst. Siegmund Fischl managed the company for three and a half decades. The industrialist and landowner died of a heart attack in Prague in the spring of 1905 at the age of 57 . His son Josef took over the work he had created and carried it on. In 1912 Limmersach employed 20 civil servants and 150 workers. The Limmersach factory later became the property of the industrialist Mautner-Markhof ; Portendorf was sold in 1953.

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Footnotes

1. ^ "Klagenfurter Zeitung" on May 4, 1905. Section Carinthia of the Federation of Austrian Industrialists 1902-1912, Klagenfurt 1912.
2. ^ Carinthia's commercial economy from prehistoric times to the present, Klagenfurt 1953.
3. ↑ Hans Gustl Kernmayr, Brot und Eisen, Salzburg 1951, p. 165 ff.
4. ^ Hermann Wießner / Gerhard Seebacher, Burgen und Schlösser in Klagenfurt, Feldkirchen and Völkermarkt, Vienna 1980, p. 92.

literature

• Anton Kreuzer: Carinthian portraits , Klagenfurt, Kreuzer Buch, Einigkeitsstrasse No. 3, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria