Emil von Škoda
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Emil von Škoda | |
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Born | |
Died | 8 August 1900 | (aged 60)
Nationality | Bohemian |
Occupation | Founder of the Škoda Works |
Parent(s) | František Škoda Anna Říhová |
Emil Ritter[a] von Škoda (Czech: Emil rytíř Škoda; 18 November 1839 – 8 August 1900) was a Bohemian engineer and industrialist, founder of Škoda Works, the predecessor of today's Škoda Auto and Škoda Transportation.
Life and work
Born Emil Škoda in Pilsen (Czech: Plzeň) on 18 November 1839 to a physician and politician František Škoda, and mother Anna Říhová. Škoda studied engineering in Prague and Karlsruhe and in 1866 became chief engineer of the machine factory of Ernst Fürst von Waldstein-Wartenberg, founded in 1859 at Pilsen. He bought the factory three years later, in 1869, and began to expand it, building a railway connection to the facility in 1886 and adding an arms factory in 1890 to produce machine guns for the Austro-Hungarian Army. His facilities continued to expand over the next decade, and he incorporated his holdings in 1899 as the Škoda Works, which would become famous for its arms production in both World War I and World War II and for a wide range of other industrial and transportation products.
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