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Hofherr-Schrantz-Clayton-Shuttleworth AG
Hofherr Schrantz : Clayton Shuttleworth or HSCS was an agricultural machinery company. It was formed by the merger of two Austro-Hungarian agricultural engineering businesses in 1911. A new joint stock company was formed with headquarters in Vienna and Budapest. Clayton & Shuttleworth which had been founded in Lincoln, Lincolnshire in 1842 and had established themselves in Vienna in 1857 and later in Budapest continued its independent operations outside Austria, Hungary and Romania. Vienna in 1869 Mathias Hofherr started an agricultural machinery factory in Vienna in 1869 and a further factory in Budapest. In 1881, the Hungarian-born János Schrantz joined the company as a capital partner. Both companies had expanded considerably and Clayton and Shuttleworth had opened a further five assembly plants and factories in Austria-Hungary and in the newly established kingdom of Romania. First factory Clayton and Shuttleworth's first factory in Vienna was built in Wien-Landstraße in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anschluss
The (, or , ), also known as the (, en, Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938. The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany") began after the unification of Germany excluded Austria and the German Austrians from the Prussian-dominated German Empire in 1871. Following the end of World War I with the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1918, the newly formed Republic of German-Austria attempted to form a union with Germany, but the Treaty of Saint Germain (10 September 1919) and the Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919) forbade both the union and the continued use of the name "German-Austria" (); and stripped Austria of some of its territories, such as the Sudetenland. Prior to the , there had been strong support in both Austria and Germany for unification of the two countries. In the immediate aftermath of the dissolution of the Habsburg monarchy—with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
