In the history of enterprise, Alexander Schoeller is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Alexander Schoeller as German entrepreneur and manufacturer (1805–1886).
Alexander Schoeller was born at Düren in 1805. His recorded nationality is Cisleithania.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as entrepreneur, industrialist and banker.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
Recognition followed: Order of the Iron Crown (Austria) (1863).
That the business was built from Cisleithania shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Alexander Schoeller died in 1886, aged 81. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Order of the Iron Crown (Austria) — 1863
