!!!Meinl, Julius, geb. 1869

b. Vienna, Jan. 18, 1869, 
d. Altprerau, Lower Austria, May 16, 1944, started working in his 
father's grocery shop in 1889. Under his management, the shop 
developed into a large food production and marketing group which long 
remained the leading enterprise of its kind in Austria (from 1919 
Julius  Meinl AG), with 493 branch outlets (1937) and numerous 
production facilities (chocolate, coffee, mustard, pasta etc.). A 
champion of modern sociopolitical ideas, Meinl founded the first 
vocational school for commercial apprentices (1907), introduced the 
five-day working week (1931) and built a vacation home for his 
employees. As a highly respected diplomat, he strove to achieve a 
peace agreement in 1917/18 and after the war organised relief 
programmes sending Austrian children to Switzerland. In 1933 his son 
Julius  Meinl (b. 1903) succeeded him to the management of Julius 
Meinl AG.

!Literature
M. Lehrbaumer, Womit kann ich dienen? J. M. - Auf den 
Spuren einer grossen Marke, 2000; OeBL.



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