Vilmos Leipzig

Vilmos Leipziger (born June 18, 1840 in Breslau , Province of Silesia , Kingdom of Prussia , † January 24, 1913 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ) was a major Prussian industrialist .

Life

Vilmos Leipziger was born on June 18, 1840 in Breslau, the provincial capital of Silesia, in the southeast of the Kingdom of Prussia . In general, relatively little is known about the life of Leipziger. At the age of 24 he was already working in Karl Rudolf Friedenthal's company as operations manager and later became an authorized signatory in Friedenthal's factory in Wroclaw. In 1874 he was then appointed head of the spirit refinery in Pest , which Friedenthal had built seven years earlier. Five years later, in 1879, Leipziger founded his own spirit factory in Alt-Ofen , today's III. Budapest municipality. Over the years, the factory has developed into the most important industrial plant in Hungary. In 1902 Leipziger appeared as one of the founders of the Hungarian Federation of Industrialists ( Gyáriparosok Országos Szövetsége , GYOSZ for short ) and was a member of the board of directors of the association until his death at the age of 63. He was also a founding member of Magyar Általános Takarékpénztár ( German Hungarian General Savings Bank ). On January 24, 1913, Leipziger died in the transit capital of Budapest.

Web links

• Leipziger, Vilmos. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 109.