Joseph Schülein

Joseph Schülein (31 March 1854 in Thalmässing – 9 September 1938 at castle Kaltenberg, Geltendorf) was a German brewery owner and philanthropist.

The son of a Franconian family, he first worked as a banker in Munich before he and his brother Julius[1] bought out the bankrupt brewery "Fügerbräu"[2] in the Äußere Wiener Straße in Haidhausen, today's Einsteinstraße,[3] and founded the "Unionsbrauerei Schülein & Cie." in 1895.

Through land foundations, Schülein made it possible to build a settlement with social housing on today's Schüleinplatz in Berg am Laim.

In 1902 the family moved into a prestigious residential building built by Leonhard Romeis at 7 Richard-Wagner-Straße, and Schülein later gave his daughter Elsa another plot of land in the same street as a dowry, thus enabling his son-in-law, the surgeon Alfred Haas, to build a private clinic at number 19.

Schülein gave up his position on the supervisory board of Löwenbräu in 1933, and retired to his Kaltenberg estate, where he died on September 9, 1938.