Emil Škoda

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Emil Škoda
Born	(1839-11-19)19 November 1839 Plzeň, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austrian Empire
Died	Selzthal, Styria, Austria-Hungary
Nationality	Lands of the Bohemian Crown
Occupation	Founder of the Škoda Works
Parent(s)	František Škoda Anna Říhová

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Grave of Emil Škoda, St. Nicholas Cemetery, Plzeň

Emil Ritter von Škoda (19 November 1839 – 8 August 1900) was a Czech engineer and industrialist, founder of Škoda Works that later became the parent company of Škoda Auto.

Life and work

Emil Škoda was born in Plzeň 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.

External links

• Lidovky [1]: Website (Czech)
• Kapital [2]: Website (Czech)