Schoeller Family

The Schoeller family is a German noble family. Originally from the Rhineland, the family had extensive business holdings throughout Europe for many a generation.

History

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.

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, 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.

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. 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.

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
* (1852–1911), banker and financier of the Rhenish-Westphalian heavy industry, Privy Councillor of the Sea
* (1828–1908), paper manufacturer and patron
* , née Schoeller (1774–1852), donor in Düren and founder of the Schenkel-Schoeller welfare institution
* (1821–1893), paper manufacturer in Düren, co-founder of paper factories in Neu Kaliß, Offingen and Gernsbach, co-founder of the Düren Railway
* (1855–1907), paper manufacturer at Burg Gretesch, specialist for photographic paper
* Franz Jochen Schoeller (1926–2019), former Ambassador
* (1886–1970), German paper manufacturer and President of the Osnabrück Chamber of Industry and Commerce
* (1830–1912), major industrialist and economic functionary in Brno, German consul for Moravia and Silesia and consular agent for the US
* (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
* (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
* (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
* (1835–1892), major industrialist of the Bohemian sugar industry
* (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
* (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
* (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
* (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:

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
Frau Hugo Schoeller (née Maria Peill) by Philip de László.jpg, Portrait of Maria Schoeller (née Peill) by Philip de László, 1907
Hugo Schoeller by Philip de László.jpg, Portrait of Hugo Schoeller by Philip de László, 1908
Philipp Wilhelm v. Schoeller, d.J..jpg, Portrait of Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller

Notes

References

External links

Schoeller: 500 Years of Corporate Responsibility, Tradition, and Innovation

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German noble families
Swiss noble families

German business families