Richard von Szilvinyi (born 16 October 1899 in

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, died 28 April 1966 in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

) was a German industrialist. He was a son of the Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal Lieutenant Géza von Szilvinyi and a member of a Catholic Austro-Hungarian noble family. In 1929, he married Wera Maud Helene Katharina von Weinberg, daughter of the industrialist

Carl von Weinberg Carl von Weinberg (born September 14, 1861, in Frankfurt am Main; died March 14, 1943, near Florence) was an important Jewish German chemist, entrepreneur, patron of the arts and philanthropist. Life Carl and his brother Arthur von Weinberg ...

and Ethel Mary Villers Forbes. His wife's family was a prominent Jewish family of industrialists from Frankfurt who owned

Cassella Cassella AG, formerly Leopold Cassella & Co. and Cassella Farbwerke Mainkur AG, commonly known as Cassella, was a German chemical and pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main. Founded in 1798 in the Frankfurt Jewish Alley by ...

and who had co-founded

IG Farben Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG (), commonly known as IG Farben (German for 'IG Dyestuffs'), was a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate (company), conglomerate. Formed in 1925 from a merger of six chemical companies—BASF, ...

. In 1929 he moved to Frankfurt and started working for IG Farben, where the Weinbergs had a substantial interest. From 1945 to 1952 he was leader of the

works, and he became chairman of the

supervisory board In corporate governance, a governance board also known as council of delegates are chosen by the stockholders of a company to promote their interests through the governance of the company and to hire and fire the board of directors. In civil s ...

in 1952. He was also chairman of the supervisory board of the Frankfurter Bank from 1952. In his second marriage he was married to Liselotte (Lilo) von Schnitzler, daughter of

Georg von Schnitzler Georg August Eduard ''Freiherr'' von Schnitzler (29 October 1884, in Cologne – 24 May 1962, in Basel) was a member of the board at IG Farben and a Nazi war criminal. Early years Schnitzler studied law at a number of universities, eventually comp ...

."Sein Leben galt der Wirtschaft. Richard von Szilvinyi im Alter von 67 Jahren verstorben", ''

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'', 30 April 1966

Honours

*Honorary Plaque of the City of Frankfurt (1959)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Szilvinyi, Richard von Cassella people Austrian Roman Catholics Businesspeople from Vienna 20th-century German businesspeople 1899 births 1966 deaths