Sigmund von Schossberger

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Baron Sigmund Schossberger de Tornya (born October 8, 1827 in Pest , † October 5, 1900 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian industrialist.

Life

Sigmund von Schossberger was the son of the Jewish- Hungarian wholesaler, landowner and industrialist Simon Wolf Schossberger de Tornya (born in Pest in 1797, died in Budapest in 1874), who was the first non-converted Jew to go to Hungary in 1863 by Emperor Franz Joseph I. Nobility was raised. From 1851 Sigmund worked with his father in the SW Schosberger company; In 1856 his brother Heinrich (1833–1899) also joined the family business. In 1851 Sigmund also married Theresia Mayer (1830–1921), a sister of the Austrian textile industrialist Albert Mayer von Gunthof (1827–1906) in Vienna . Four children from the marriage lived through adulthood: Anna, Nándor (Ferdinand), Jenny (mother of George de Hevesy , Nobel laureate in chemistry in 1943) and Victor.

Aerial view of the Schossberger Castle

The Schossberger family relocated their company to Pest County , where they expanded their activities to include the sugar industry, tobacco trade and banking. Due to his good relations with the government in Vienna and diverse activities, Sigmund von Schossberger became one of the richest men in Hungary.

In 1890 Sigmund became president of the Budapest Association of Sugar Manufacturers and Traders. During this time he was also given the title of baron . This also made him the first Jewish member of the Magnate House .

In 1873 Sigmund von Schossberger bought the estate in Tura , not far from Budapest, from the Esterházy family . There he had the so-called Schossberg Castle built by the famous architect Miklós Ybl .

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Georg Gaugusch : Who once was. The upper Jewish bourgeoisie in Vienna 1800–1938 . Volume 2: L-R . Amalthea, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85002-773-1 , p. 2237
  2. ↑ J. Mentschl:  Scholars Berger (Berger lap, Schossberger) de Tornya, Simon Wolf (Simon William, Vilmos). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 148 f. (Direct links on p. 148 , p. 149 ).
personal data
SURNAME Schossberger, Sigmund von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH pest
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1900
Place of death Budapest