Anton Dreher

Anton Eugen Georg Dreher ( born June 7, 1810 in Schwechat near Vienna; ibid. † December 27, 1863 ) was an Austrian brewer Lord and is considered the inventor of the lager.

Life

Anton Dreher was born the son of the brewer Franz Anton Dreher and his second wife Catherine Widter. First he attended a Piaristenkonvikt and then went in the Simmering brewery Meichl into teaching. In 1836 he leased from his mother, who had been widowed since 1820, the Klein- Schwechat brewery (now Schwechat Brewery ), which he acquired in 1839 for sale with the money his wife Anna Mr. Feldt.

At a young age he undertook study trips to Germany, met in Munich Gabriel Sedlmayr, the son of Spatenbräubesitzers and traveled with him in 1837 to Barclay and Perkins to England that was " technically beer " leader at that time. After his return he became the first European brewers the English malting. He realized that were critical to bottom-fermented beers, a technique that originated in Bavaria, appropriate cooling and storage. Anton Dreher put large basement, filled with natural ice in order to cool his beer. Until 1841 Anton Dreher was brewing in Schwechat top-fermented beer Emperor until he 1840-1841 a light bottom-fermented lager, which Schwechater lager, developed the first course, he called the March beer. This type of beer soon enjoyed great popularity in Vienna and later worldwide.

The strong demand for lager led to Anton Dreher in 1850 as the second brewer of the monarchy after Mautner Markhof began a steam engine for brewing beer. This from the k.k. country authorized Metal Machinery Factory of Vincent Prick built steam engine can now be visited in the Technical Museum in Vienna.

During the 1850s the Schwechat brewery to the largest on the European continent was, and the programs small Schwechater bearing went far beyond the borders of Austria. Anton Dreher bought up smaller breweries: in 1859 the Michelob brewery in Saaz in Bohemia, in 1862, the brewery quarry in Budapest; his son Anton Dreher junior earned 1869 Trieste brewery. The Hungarian Dreher Beer and the Italian Birra Dreher there today.

Anton Dreher was from 1861 to 1863 and state assembly and imperial parliaments and one of the largest taxpayers in the monarchy.

1863, shortly before his death, he confided Cajetan Fields guardianship of his underage ( 14 year old ) son Anton Dreher jun. (1849-1921), and the management of the brewery operations at. His son took over his father's company in 1870, increased further the brewing empire and began export of lager in the world. His half-brother was the writer Anton Breitner.

In 1894 in Vienna Simmering ( 11th district ) was named the Dreherstraße by Anton Dreher senior.