1. Anton Dreher was an Austrian brewer, business magnate, philanthropist of Danube Swabian ancestry, the founder of the Dreher Breweries who was an important figure in the development of pale lager.
21 Facts About Anton Dreher
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Franz Anton Dreher was the Kronenwirt in Pfullendorf, a small imperial city north of Uberlingen.
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Anton Dreher married Maria Anna Huber, daughter of a surveyor, who had learned something of the brewing trade.
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Anton Dreher married Katherina, daughter of the master brewer Meichl of Simmering, to whom he had been apprenticed.
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Anton Dreher had an illegitimate son, the writer and editor Anton Breitner.
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Jeno Dreher, the youngest son of Anton Dreher, inherited the family's Hungarian concerns.
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When Franz Anton Dreher died of marasmus in 1820, his ten-year-old son was too young to manage the brewing business.
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Anton Dreher owned acres of land throughout Austria and Bohemia, and grew his own hops and barley, which allowed him to protect the business from the volatility of the hop and grain market at least to a certain extent.
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In 1858, Anton Dreher's Lager won the gold medal for excellence at the Beer Exhibit in Vienna.
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At the International Exhibition in London 1862, Anton Dreher presented four types of beer for which he received a bronze medal.
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In recognition of this success, Anton Dreher was made a Knight of the Imperial Austrian Order of Franz Joseph by the Emperor.
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Anton Dreher visited Pest-Buda on several occasions between 1856 and 1860; by 1862 he was able to buy the Kobanya Brewery Company.
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Anton Dreher purchased further plots of land and prepared for expansion, but died suddenly in 1863, leaving his 14-year-old son to implement the plans.
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Anton Dreher started to export this beer first to the Netherlands, then to Triest, where it was known as Birra Dreher, and then to Germany.
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In 1871, known as the winter without ice, Anton Dreher constructed a cooling machine to process the beer.
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Anton Dreher continued to develop the brewery, the mechanization, and the fields, and by 1897 the brewery was producing 739.639 Hectoliters of beer, which was more than double the amount produced under his father in the company's most productive year.
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In 1897, Anton Dreher was promoted to a Knight Commander of the Imperial Austrian Order of Franz Joseph.
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Jeno Anton Dreher continued to buy shares of his competitors, Haggenmacher Kobanya and Budafoki Rt.
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The Anton Dreher Combine, which was merged from these two companies in 1923, bought up the Royal Brewery Corporation of Kanizsa in 1928.
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Anton Dreher beer was exported to North and South America, western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, where ever Germans, Austrians and Hungarians migrated, and became a worldwide brand name.
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In 2017, Anton Dreher Breweries were sold by SABMiller PLC to Asahi Breweries.