Stefan Esders (entrepreneur)

Portrait medallion in the Kaasgraben Church

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Stefan Esders (born July 6, 1852 in Haren an der Ems ; † September 15, 1920 in Vienna ; also Stephan Esders ) was a Belgian-Austrian entrepreneur.

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Stefan Esders and his brother Henri Esders founded a large clothing factory in Brussels with branches in Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg, Rotterdam and Vienna. There was a heated political dispute about his department store at the large factory ( Mariahilfer Strasse 18), which was built in Vienna in 1895 . Esders was the first in Vienna to introduce a system of profit sharing (bonus payments) for its employees.

Together with his brother, Esders was the main donor of the Emsland Cathedral in his birthplace Haren . He settled in Vienna and founded the Kaasgraben Church . On September 20, 1920 he was buried there in the crypt designed by Hans Schwathe .

The square in front of the Kaasgraben Church and his former villa was named after him in his honor by the City of Vienna in 1935; At the time of the installation in 1912 it was called Hohenwartplatz and from 1917 Ettinghausenplatz .

The Esders villa

His former residence at today's Stefan-Esders-Platz 1, which, like his department store and the church he donated, was built around 1910 by the architects Franz Kupka (1855-1924) and Gustav Orglmeister (1861-1953) Death handed over to the Order of the Sisters of the Poor Children of Jesus . It was converted into the Clara Fey Children's Village and expanded with several additions and is now, together with the large park, a special school of the order.

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  View from the south

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  View from the west

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  View from the north

Awards

• Knight of the Belgian Order of the Crown
• Commander with star of the Order of St. Gregory the Great

literature

• Christof Haverkamp: From Haren via Brussels to Vienna - The story of the textile merchant Stefan Esders . In: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatbund , Volume 53, Sögel 2007, ISSN  0448-1410 , pp. 9–44.
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Esders Stephan. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , pp. 216-217 ( digitized , entry in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna).
• Esders Stefan. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 268.

Web links

Commons : Stefan Esders  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• News of death in the article  in:  Wiener Zeitung , Abendblatt, September 17, 1920, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
• Stefan Esders was the clothing king in Vienna Article in the press