Emil von Škoda explained

Emil von Škoda
Nationality:Bohemian
Birth Date:18 November 1839
Birth Place:Plzeň, Bohemia, Austrian Empire
Death Place:Selzthal, Duchy of Styria, Austria-Hungary
Occupation:Founder of the Škoda Works
Father:František Škoda
Mother:Anna Říhová

Emil Ritter von Škoda (cs|Emil rytíř Škoda pronounced as /cs/; 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.

Life and work

Born Emil Škoda in 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 Plzeň. 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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