Schoeller family
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The Schoeller{{refn|group=lower-alpha|In older documents the family name is also written as: Scolere, Scollere, Scholer, Scholere, and Schoeler, although the spelling with "oe" has been retained throughout all lines with few exceptions.}} family is a German noble family. Originally from the Rhineland, the family had extensive business holdings throughout Europe for many a generation.{{cite book |last1=Ramm |first1=Hans Joachim |title=Schoeller, Unternehmerfamilie: mit ADB & NDB-Gesamtregister auf CD-ROM, 4. Ausg |date=2010 |publisher=Verlag nicht ermittelbar |location=Berlin |isbn=978-3-428-11204-3 |pages=364–366 |url=https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0001/bsb00019558/images/index.html?seite=384 |access-date=6 September 2024}}
History
File:Alexander Schoeller.jpg by Adolf Dauthage, 1866]]
File:Richard von Schoeller.jpg, {{circa|1920}}]]
While most members of the family initially worked as Reidemeister (metal manufacturers) in the Eifel, beginning in the 18th century, they became founders, shareholders and managers of numerous companies in the textile, paper, sugar and steel industries as well as in packaging technology. They also formed Schoellerbank, a trading and banking house in Vienna which was founded initially as a wholesaler in 1833. They were also involved in the coal mining industry, in the construction and railway industry, in breweries and with other banking and trading houses. In addition to their original home towns of Schleiden, Gemünd and Hellenthal in the Eifel, their companies were primarily located in the Düren-Jülich area, the towns of Eitorf, Osnabrück as well as Wrocław, Edelény, Prague, Brno, Zurich, Bregenz, Ternitz, Berndorf, Vienna and other locations worldwide.{{cite web |last1= Ramm| first1=Hans-Joachim |title=Schoeller - Deutsche Biographie |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd119173565.html?language=en |website=www.deutsche-biographie.de |publisher=Deutsche Biographie |access-date=6 September 2024 |language=de}}
A large number of family members are still active in public or political offices, holding appointments as city councillors, as members of the Prussian House of Representatives or the House of Lords of the Imperial Council of Austria,{{cite book |last1=Mathis |first1=Franz |title=Big Business in Österreich: österreichische Grossunternehmen in Kurzdarstellungen |date=1987 |publisher=R. Oldenbourg |location=München |isbn=3-486-53771-7}} as board members in chambers of commerce and industry, as honorary consuls, or as members of numerous supervisory and administrative boards as well as company boards.{{cite web |title=Schoeller – 500 years of corporate responsibility, tradition and innovation |url=https://www.schoeller.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017_01_Jubilaeumsbuch.pdf |website=www.schoeller.org |publisher=Schoeller Allibert International |access-date=6 September 2024}}
Several members of the "Brno" and "Vienna branches" were elevated to the hereditary Austrian nobility in 1863 with the title of Knight, and Sir Paul Eduard von Schoeller was elevated to the British nobility as Knight Bachelor.{{cite book |last1=Schoeller |first1=Hugo |last2=von Schoeller |first2=August |title=Geschichte der Familie Schoeller |date=1894 |publisher=Barton Verlag |location=Berlin |isbn=3-9803288-2-1 |edition=1994 |url=https://www.lehmanns.de/shop/sozialwissenschaften/5117069-9783980328821-beitraege-zur-geschichte-der-familie-schoeller-geschichte-der-familie-schoeller |access-date=6 September 2024}} However, in 1919, all living family members and their descendants were required to remove the additions Ritter and von from their names if they had accepted citizenship in the Republic of Austria, due to the Law on the Abolition of Nobility of April 1919.{{cite journal |last1=von Saldern |first1=Adelheid |title=Networks and corporate development in the early 19th century: The example of the Schoeller houses. |journal=Journal of Business History |date=2008 |volume=53 |issue=2 |pages=147–176 |url=http://chbeck.metapress.com/content/991w777841055540/fulltext.pdf |access-date=6 September 2024}}
Prominent members
- Alexander von Schoeller (1805–1886), mining industrialist and banker in Berndorf, Ternitz and Vienna, lifelong member of the Austrian House of Lords, ennobled in 1863
- {{ill|Alexander Schoeller|de}} (1852–1911), banker and financier of the Rhenish-Westphalian heavy industry, Privy Councillor of the Sea
- {{ill|Benno Schoeller|de}} (1828–1908), paper manufacturer and patron
- {{ill|Catharina Schenkel|de}}, née Schoeller (1774–1852), donor in Düren and founder of the Schenkel-Schoeller welfare institution
- {{ill|Felix Heinrich Schoeller|de}} (1821–1893), paper manufacturer in Düren, co-founder of paper factories in Neu Kaliß, Offingen and Gernsbach, co-founder of the Düren Railway
- {{ill|Felix Hermann Maria Schoeller|de}} (1855–1907), paper manufacturer at Burg Gretesch, specialist for photographic paper
- Franz Jochen Schoeller (1926–2019), former Ambassador
- {{ill|Gerhard Schoeller|de}} (1886–1970), German paper manufacturer and President of the Osnabrück Chamber of Industry and Commerce
- {{ill|Gustav von Schoeller|de}} (1830–1912), major industrialist and economic functionary in Brno, German consul for Moravia and Silesia and consular agent for the US
- {{ill|Gustav Adolph von Schoeller|de}} (1826–1889), mining industrialist, major entrepreneur and banker in Berndorf, Ternitz and Vienna
- Heinrich August Schoeller (1788–1863), paper manufacturer at Schoellershammer
- Heinrich August Schoeller (1923–2021), Düren industrialist
- Hubertus Schoeller (b. 1942), gallery owner in Düsseldorf and art donor in Düren
- {{ill|Leopold Schoeller|de}} (1792–1884), cloth and carpet manufacturer, member of the Prussian Parliament, Privy Councillor of Commerce
- Leopold Schoeller (1830–1896), major industrialist in Breslau, co-initiator of the Oder-Spree Canal, member of the Free Conservative Party in the Prussian House of Representatives
- {{ill|Max Schoeller|de}} (1865–1943), sugar manufacturer and ethnologist
- Sir Paul Eduard von Schoeller (1853–1920), mining industrialist in Ternitz and Vienna, lifelong member of the Austrian House of Lords, British Consul General in Vienna, 1912 British Knight Bachelor, patron of the arts
- Philipp Schöller (1771–1842), Prussian mayor of Düsseldorf
- Philipp von Schoeller (1921–2008), major entrepreneur, Austrian champion in show jumping, representative of Austria from 1977 to 2000 and subsequently honorary member of the International Olympic Committee
- {{ill|Philipp Johann von Schoeller|de}} (1835–1892), major industrialist of the Bohemian sugar industry
- {{ill|Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller (born 1797)|de|Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller (Industrieller, 1797)}} (1797–1877), major industrialist in the cloth and sugar industry in Brno, Prague and Vienna, member of the Moravian Diet, ennobled in 1863
- Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller (1845–1916), major industrialist and banker in Vienna, president of the Vienna Camera Club, lifelong member of the Austrian House of Lords
- Richard von Schoeller (1871–1950), major industrialist of the Bohemian sugar industry and mining industrialist in Ternitz and Berndorf
- {{ill|Robert von Schoeller|de}} (1873–1950), major industrialist in the sugar industry in Moravia and Lower Austria, received transfer of nobility from his cousin Richard in 1911
- Rudolf Schoeller (1902–1978), Swiss racing driver
- {{ill|Rudolf Wilhelm Schoeller|de}} (1827–1902), major entrepreneur and head of the Schoeller worsted factories in Bregenz and Zurich, among others; member of the Old Liberals in the Prussian House of Representatives; German consul for Switzerland
- Walter Schoeller (1889–1979), General Director of the Swiss family business Schoeller Switzerland, multiple Swiss national champion in football, rowing, tennis and hockey, European champion in coxed fours and eights, President and Honorary President of the Grasshoppers Club Zurich
- {{ill|Walter Julius Viktor Schoeller|de}} (1880–1965), professor of medicinal chemistry in Freiburg im Breisgau, head of laboratory in Berlin
Family seats
The family owned a number of notable castles, palaces and prominent buildings, including:{{cite journal |last1=von Saldern |first1=Adelheid |editor1-last=Hilger |editor1-first=Susanne |editor2-last=Soénius |editor2-first=Ulrich D. |title=Business families and their relatives. The Schoeller houses in the early 19th century. |journal=Family Businesses in the Rhineland in the 19th and 20th Centuries |date=2009 |volume=Cologne |pages=25–44}}
Family businesses
Gallery
Leopold Schoeller.jpg|Portrait of Leopold Schoeller
Frau Richard von Schoeller (née Emmi Frederika Siedenburg) by Philip de László.jpg|Portrait of Emmi Schoeller (née Siedenburg) by Philip de László, 1905{{cite web |title=The Catalogue {{!}} Schoeller, Frau Richard von, née Emmi Frederika Siedenburg |url=https://www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.com/catalogue/the-catalogue/schoeller-frau-richard-von-nee-emmi-frederika-siedenburg-110581 |website=www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.com |publisher=The de Laszlo Archive Trust |access-date=6 September 2024}}
Frau Hugo Schoeller (née Maria Peill) by Philip de László.jpg|Portrait of Maria Schoeller (née Peill) by Philip de László, 1907{{cite web |title=The Catalogue {{!}} Schoeller, Frau Hugo, née Maria Peill |url=https://www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.com/catalogue/the-catalogue/schoeller-frau-hugo-nee-maria-peill-112085/search/keywords:schoeller--sorting:relevance |website=www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.com |publisher=The de Laszlo Archive Trust |access-date=6 September 2024}}
Hugo Schoeller by Philip de László.jpg|Portrait of Hugo Schoeller by Philip de László, 1908{{cite web |title=The Catalogue {{!}} Schoeller, Hugo |url=https://www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.com/catalogue/the-catalogue/schoeller-hugo-111480/search/keywords:schoeller--sorting:relevance |website=www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.com |publisher=The de Laszlo Archive Trust |access-date=6 September 2024}}
Philipp Wilhelm v. Schoeller, d.J..jpg|Portrait of Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller{{cite web |title=Schoeller, Philipp Ritter |url=https://onb.digital/result/BAG_10089643 |website=onb.digital |publisher=ÖNB Digital |access-date=6 September 2024 |language=en}}
Notes
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References
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External links
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- [https://www.schoeller.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017_01_Jubilaeumsbuch.pdf Schoeller: 500 Years of Corporate Responsibility, Tradition, and Innovation]
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