Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch

Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch
Born (1852-11-17)17 November 1852
Arad, Austria-Hungary
Died 18 February 1913(1913-02-18) (aged 60)
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Nationality Hungarian
Spouse(s) Emma Hatvany-Deutsch
Ottilia Amberg
Children Lajos Hatvany (b. 1880, d. 1961)
Ferenc Hatvany (b. 1881, d. 1958)
Parent(s) József Deutsch and Paulina Krishaber

Baron Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch (1852 – 1913) was a leading Hungarian industrialist and art patron.

His father, József Deutsch, was knighted for his economic achievements in 1879 by the Emperor and allowed to use the prefix 'de Hatvan'. After his studies, Sándor Deutsch de Hatvan joined the family trading business, and with the help of his cousins, made it into a major player in the sugar industry. Through their firm, Ignatz Deutsch & Sons, founded in Arad in 1822 and later moved to Budapest, the cousins grew sugar beet on large estates, set up refineries across Hungary for processing and exported their sugar on world markets. Although sugar was the source of the vast Hatvany fortune, the family was also involved in flour mills and grain trading, banking, among other activities.

In 1908, Sándor was made a baron by Franz Joseph I of Austria, became a member of the Senate, and assumed the name Hatvany-Deutsch. Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch participated in the creation of the National Association of Hungarian Industrialists in 1902, supported hospitals and sponsored a theater in Budapest.

His son Baron Ferenc Hatvany would accumulate Hungary's most valuable collection of paintings before it was seized by the Nazis during World War II. Another son, Baron Lajos Hatvany became a gifted Hungarian writer.

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