Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller (born 1845)

Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller (18 April 1845 – 20 February 1916), was a German-Austrian entrepreneur and banker as well as an art photographer.

After Alexander's death in 1886, and the death of his cousin Gustav Adolph just three years later, Philipp Wilhelm and Paul Eduard were appointed sole heirs to the company empire in 1889, which included the wholesale and banking house Schoeller & Co. in Vienna (which later became the Schoellerbank), shares in the Berndorfer Metal Goods Factory, the Ternitzer Steel and Iron Works (which later became the Schoeller-Bleckmann Steelworks), as well as agricultural estates and the associated factories for the production of sugar, bread and beer.

[3] Schoeller was also active in politics and, in 1895, was elected a lifelong member of the House of Lords of the Imperial Council of Austria for the moderately liberal Constitutional Party.

He took lessons from the photographers Wilhelm Burger and Hans Lenhard and, in 1893, joined both the Vienna Camera Club (German: Wiener Camera-Klub), of which he took over the presidency two years later, and the Photographic Society in Vienna, where he was made an honorary member in 1907.

[5] Schoeller died, unmarried and without issue, on 20 February 1916 in Gries-San Quirino, Bolzano, Italy.