[2] Franz Anton Dreher (1689–1743) was the Kronenwirt (innkeeper at the Crown Inn) in Pfullendorf, a small imperial city north of Überlingen (today Baden Württemberg, Germany).

"the younger", 1736–1820), studied brewing near Pfullendorf, but had larger dreams and made the Swabian migration of 1760 to Vienna.

The couple had no children, and when she died in 1803, he married (ii) Katherine Widter, 1786–1864, a miller's daughter from Speichmühle near Petersdorf.

Anton Dreher (the younger) married Katherina, daughter of the master brewer Meichl of Simmering, to whom he had been apprenticed.

When Franz Anton Dreher (the younger) died of marasmus in 1820, his ten-year-old son was too young to manage the brewing business.

[1]: 20–21  This allowed him to drastically expand his brewing business, eventually culminating in the purchase of two breweries in Michelob and Kőbánya to better serve the Bohemian and Hungarian markets.

At the International Exhibition in London 1862, Dreher presented four types of beer for which he received a bronze medal.

In recognition of this success, Anton Dreher was made a Knight of the Imperial Austrian Order of Franz Joseph by the Emperor.

The attention turned to Kőbánya because of a beer made by Peter Schmidt, a brewer master from Pest who studied in Munich.

The water in the wells, made by deep drilling technology, is perfectly suited for beer making; the cellars of Schmidt's brewery provided the steady cool temperature needed for maturation and storage.

He purchased further plots of land and prepared for expansion, but died suddenly in 1863, leaving his 14-year-old son to implement the plans.

It built a restaurant in the park of the Expo's Austrian section which included two ice cellars to store the beer under optimal conditions.

Using custom-built ice wagons that ensured a constant temperature of 4 °C, the brewery could transport 54 hectolitres of beer from Klein-Schwechat to Paris, a journey that took 5 days.

In the middle of the 19th century, Anton Dreher senior had purchased two small, adjacent restaurants and combined them into one Gasthaus with a big garden.

As the result of the grand scale expansion, Dreher-Haggenmacher First Hungarian Brewery Corporation was launched in 1933, and acquired 70 percent of the market.

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.

[10] After the death of his elder brother and his great nephew, Jenő Dreher sold off the Austrian portion of the family business.

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