Who are the Mautner familyThe changing fortunes of the Mautner family over the four generationsspanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries exemplifythe spectacular and typical rise and fall of many Viennese industrialfamilies in this period. The family’s rise began in the 1860s in Náchod,Bohemia, and brought them to Vienna, the heart of the Habsburgmonarchy and later of Austria.At the height of their financial success, Isidor Mautner(1852–1930)headed the biggest textile company in Austria-Hungary, ­employing23,000 workers in forty-two factories distributed throughout thecrownlands. The family were notable not only for their business­acumen, which carried them through diverse crises(the StockExchange crash in 1873, the First World War, raw material shortages,inflation and world economic crisis), but also for their cultural, socialand, above all, patriotic commitment.The social life of the Mautner family took place at their Viennesetownhouse in Löwelstrasse, in Geymüller-Schlössel in Pötzleins-dorf and the holiday home on the lake at Grundlsee in the Styrian­Salzkammergut. As members of influential Viennese and Austriansocial circles, they were involved in the cultural life around them,­supporting the redesign of Theater in der Josefstadt under Max­Reinhardt and also making generous donations to the nascent Volks-kundemuseum. keeping up their activities throughout the last yearsof the Habsburg monarchy and the creation of the First Republicand during Austrofascism. They donated funds, held honorary andactive positions and lent their name in particular to many conservative­patriotic undertakings.MP106