Winiwarter, Georg Ritter von#
b. Lvív, Ukraine (then Lemberg), July 21, 1822, d. Graz (Styria), July 2, 1902, entrepreneur; son of Josef von Winiwarter. Engineer with the national railways in 1849/50; with his brother Joseph Max W. and the chemist H. R. Gersheim, founded a factory in Gumpoldskirchen (Lower Austria) in 1851 for the production of galvanised sheet iron, percussion fuse (according to a patent by Gersheim) and lead products from 1857. When his partners left the firm in 1865, G. von W. ran the factory alone; also produced corrugated sheet iron, boiler plants and stoves; sold the enterprise to J. B. Ulrich in 1890.
Literature#
J. Hagenauer, 850 Jahre Gumpoldskirchen, 1990.