Emil Škoda

Emil Ritter[1] von Škoda (18 November 1839 – 8 August 1900) was a Czech engineer and industrialist, founder of Škoda Works, the predecessor of today's Škoda Auto and Škoda Transportation.

For the fictional psychiatrist from the television series Law & Order, see Emil Skoda (Law & Order).

Emil Škoda
Born(1839-11-18)18 November 1839
Pilsen, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austrian Empire (today Czech republic)
Died8 August 1900(1900-08-08) (aged 60)
Selzthal, Styria, Austria-Hungary
NationalityCzech
OccupationFounder of the Škoda Works
Parent(s)František Škoda
Anna Říhová
Grave of Emil Škoda, St. Nicholas Cemetery, Plzeň

Life and work

Emil Škoda was born in Pilsen on November 19, 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.

Notes
  1. Regarding personal names: Ritter is a title, translated approximately as Sir (denoting a Knight), not a first or middle name. There is no equivalent female form.


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