Anton Freissler, aka Anton Freißler (13 March 1838, in
Kujavy – 29 February 1916, in
Hinterbrühl
Hinterbrühl () is a town in the district of Mödling in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is home to the Seegrotte, a system of caves including Europe's largest underground lake. During World War II, a satellite camp of Mauthausen concentr ...
) invented and developed a number of
elevators including
paternosters.
Biography
upleft, Oldest Paternoster in Austria by Freissler, installed in 1911
Freissler was born in
Kujavy in northern Moravia, which was a part of Austrian empire. Freissler developed paternosters and other elevators, which were sold very successfully throughout the empire and abroad. One of the oldest paternosters, installed in 1911, is still in use in the House of Industry in Vienna.
Freissler was also issued an
imperial warrant as a Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court.
The company existed until the 1970s until it was incorporated into
Otis
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Austria.
See also
*
List of elevator manufacturers
This is a list of companies that manufacture elevators.
Current elevator manufacturers
* Aichi small-elevator manufacturing corporation
* Doppler
* Fujitec
* Hitachi
* Hyundai Elevator
* Kone
* Mitsubishi Electric
* Otis Elevator Compa ...
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1838 births
1916 deaths
People from Nový Jičín District
People from the Margraviate of Moravia
Moravian-German people
Austrian people of Moravian-German descent
19th-century Austrian people
20th-century Austrian people
Austrian businesspeople
Manufacturing companies of Austria
Elevator manufacturers
Purveyors to the Imperial and Royal Court
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