Mayr von Melnhof, Franz der Ältere, Freiherr#

b. Leoben (Styria), Aug. 23, 1810, d. Leoben, Dec. 28, 1889, industrialist; son of Franz Mayr, father of Baron Franz Mayr von Melnhof Jr.; expanded his father's iron processing plant in Donawitz and built the crucible steel works in Kapfenberg; 1881 the industrial complex was integrated into the Oesterreichisch-Alpine Montangesellschaft; in 1894 the Boehler brothers bought the Boehler-Werke plant in Kapfenberg.

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