Victor Bauer (entrepreneur)

Victor Bauer

Victor Moritz Peter Bauer (born April 2, 1876 in Brno ; † August 3, 1939 in Kunewald ) was a large landowner , sugar industrialist, world traveler, pilot , European thinker, lawyer and member of the Reichstag .

Life

Victor Bauer was the eldest son of the industrialist Viktor Ritter von Bauer and Marietta, née Chlumecký, daughter of the historian Peter von Chlumecký .

He received his training at a German grammar school in Brno. He then studied law in Leipzig, Geneva and Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1901.

Activities as an entrepreneur

From 1904 he was a partner in the old Brno sugar factory M. Bauer, but in 1906 the sugar factory burned down and was not rebuilt. Therefore, Victor devoted himself to the operation of the Rohrbach sugar refinery , after the death of his father (1911) he and his brother Peter became partners in this company.
From 1912 the brothers Victor, Moritz and Peter Bauer became shareholders of the Drnowitz sugar factory Offermann & Comp. in Wischau .
He was the head of the company that ran the agricultural estates of Sponau and Kunewald.
After 1915 he built one of the most modern sugar factories in Rohrbach, where he also took care of the social and hygienic safety of his workers.
He became a partner in the company Robert & Comp., Which ran a sugar factory in Seelowitz .

Other activities

1906 member of the Imperial and Royal Geographical Society in Vienna
Member of the board of directors of the sugar factory in Schlapanitz (Brno-Land district),
Chairman of the board of directors of a quarry in Rossitz (Brno-Land district)
After initially welcoming the founding of Czechoslovakia, his family's property was soon expropriated and he had to fight for family property. This and the increasing political tensions in Europe in the inter-war period prompted him to publish several papers on his thoughts on the political reorganization of Central Europe.

Architecture and art

He made friends with Adolf Loos , who created the interior of a representative hall in Bauer's Castle , which is located on the Brno Exhibition Center . He had to sell the land on which the exhibition center extends to the city of Brno for below value.
From Adolf Loos there is also the Villa Victor Bauer in Rohrbach. In the garden of the mansion he left a gym that he used with his family and friends.
Portraits of the Bauer family were created by the painters Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele .

to travel

During his studies, he traveled to the Middle East and North Africa and visited Syria , Turkey , Palestine and Egypt .
1903–1905 traveled around the world
1908 visited China , Japan and Canada .
In 1909 in Bosnia he took part in investigations into export opportunities for the production of Austrian industry. In 1910 he visited Istanbul on behalf of the Ministry of Transport and stayed in Albania at the end of 1911 , where he learned of Italy's readiness for war.
In 1910 he passed driving tests for motor vehicles.
He was also interested in aviation , passed the pilot's examination in 1911 and thus became one of the first pilots in Austria-Hungary.
From 1926 to 1928 he made several trips to the USA and Cuba , where he took part in the 6th Pan-American Conference in Havana in May 1928 . Until 1933 he visited a number of European countries.

family

His wife was Margareta geb. Druzhba (1886-1963). The descendants of the family live in Austria today.

Exhibitions

Adolf Loos - Viktor Bauer, confiscated memories in the Museum of the Capital City of Prague - Center for Monuments of Modern Architecture, April 12 - June 15, 2018.

Works

Viktor Bauer: Europe, a living organism , Horn N.-Ö., 1935
Victor Bauer: Central Europe, a living organism , Brno / Leipzig, Irrgang., 1936
Victor Ritter von Bauer: Oesterreichische Exportpolitik , lecture given at the Moravian Trade Association on April 5, 1906. Vienna, Frick 1906., 1906

literature

Zdeněk Hazdra: Central European Nobility , publisher: Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague 2011, 347 pages, ISBN 978-80-87211-52-6

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personal data
SURNAME	Bauer, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bauer, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brno
DATE OF DEATH	August 3, 1939
Place of death	Kunewald