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Place of Birth: Nagykanizsa, Zala County, Hungary
About Edmund Gutmann
- Baron Edmund Gutmann von Gelse und Belišce (March 3, 1841 – January 17, 1918) was Croatian nobleman, industrialist and together with his family (father and brothers) founder of the settlement which became Belišce, Croatia.Baron Gutmann was born to a Jewish family of Salamon Heinrich and Nanette Gutmann, as oldest of nine children.
- He had four brothers and four sisters: Isidor (born 1845), Vilim (born 1846), Ladislav (born 1855), Alfred (born 1857), Hedwig, Emma (born 1848), Berta and Ida.
- His father established the wood-processing company "H.S.
- Gutmann" in Hungary.
- After the retirement of his father, Baron Gutmann and his brothers took over the company.
- Baron Gutmann bought in February 1884, on a ten-year lease, the complex of oak forests from Baron of Valpovo, Gustav Hillenprand Prandau.
- Soon after the first residential houses of Gutmann settlement - colony were built, fire department, post office, primary school building, the chapel at the cemetery were also built, together with electric grid and water supply with sewage.
- The "H.S.
- Gutmann" company created the first kilometers of forest industrial railway, which quickly grew into a local railway station with public transportation.
- Gutmann palace in Belišce center was built by Baron Gutmann for his son Arthur and daughter in law Stefania.
- Baron Gutmann was knighted by Franz Joseph I of Austria and awarded with a hereditary peer Baron von Gelse und Belišce.
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