Friedrich Schey Freiherr von Koromla (5 March 1815, in

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– 15 July 1881, in Lainz) was an Austrian banker. Around 1863, he built

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Life

Friedrich Schey was the son of a wealthy Jewish owner of a trading company in Güns (now

). He attended high school in his hometown and then studied law at the

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in Ödenburg and in 1831/1832 at the Polytechnicum Vienna. In 1835 he worked for the Wertheimstein banking house in Vienna, but returned to Güns, where he joined his parents' business. In 1839 he married Emilie Landauer (1817-1840) and became a partner in his father-in-law's business. After the death of his first wife, Schey married her sister Charlotte Landauer (1820-1842) in 1840 and, four years after her death, the Landauer daughter Hermine (1822-1902). From this marriage came his son, the jurist (1853-1938). Friedrich Schey went to Vienna after the death of his father-in-law, became director of the Vöslauer Kammgarnfabrik in 1854, and founded the "Firma Schey, k. k. priv. Großhändler," which traded in textiles and conducted money transactions. He was banker to Archduke Albrecht and through this contact became a supplier to the Imperial Army. In 1857 he was one of the co-founders of the Vienna Business Academy and was its first president. In 1859, together with his uncle, Philipp Schey (1798-1881), under the honorific ''

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'' as well as the preposition of ''von Koromla''; In 1860 he received the

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of the city of Vienna. From 1859 he was a member of the board of directors of the Lower Austrian Escompte Society for two years and, with an interruption in 1866, was director of the Austrian National Bank from 1861 to 1869. In 1863, Schey von Koromla was elevated to

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. He had the

built in 1863/1864. In 1865, he was appointed to the board of directors of the

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reinsurance company and was its vice president from 1869. He was a member of the board of directors of the Theissbahn from its foundation in 1856, became president of the Empress Elisabeth Railway in 1861, and led the negotiations for its nationalization, which was finally completed in 1884. Schey von Koromla was considered a good violinist and amassed a collection of books. He sponsored the Vienna Municipal Theater, of which he was president, the construction of the Vienna Musikverein, the Künstlerhaus Wien, contributed to the financing of the Austrian-Hungarian North Pole Expedition, and the erection of a number of monuments in Vienna. In 1862, Friedrich Schey von Koromla received the

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Third Class and decorations from Prussia, France, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and other countries. He now rests in the family tomb in the Israelite section of the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Koromla, Friedrich Schey 1815 births 1881 deaths Austro-Hungarian Jews Hungarian nobility