Eugen Scotoni (1873–1961) was an influential
Austrian
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-born Swiss businessman from the construction, real estate and film industries. He built the first Swiss skyscraper in
Lausanne
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in the 1930s. In the early 1930s, he acquired control of the large German film company
Terra Film
Terra Film was a Berlin-based film production company. Founded in 1919, it became one of Germany's largest film production companies in the 1930s under the Nazi regime.
Corporate history
The company was founded at end of 1919, initially as a li ...
. He allowed his sons to run it, particularly
Ralph Scotoni. After the company, along with the rest of the industry, was
nationalised in the mid-1930s the Scotoni's left Germany and the film production business but carried on running a chain of cinemas in
Switzerland.
[Killy p.255] He founded the Scotoni-Gassmann foundation, providing affordable housing to families with many children and economically weak elderly. He was married to Angelina Gassmann (1877–1953), and is sometimes known as Eugen Scotoni-Gassmann. Other children included Adrian, Angela, Edwin, Hildegard and
Anton-Eric Scotoni, who became well-known for bringing film stars such as
Sophia Loren,
Audrey Hepburn and
Roger Moore to Zurich.
References
Bibliography
* Killy, Wather. ''Dictionary of German Biography, Volume 9''. Walter de Gruyter, 2005.
1873 births
1961 deaths
Businesspeople from Vienna
Swiss businesspeople
Austrian emigrants to Switzerland
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