Background
He was a son of the Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal Lieutenant Géza von Szilvinyi and a member of a Catholic Austro-Hungarian noble family.
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Career
His wife"s family was a prominent Jewish family of industrialists from Frankfurt who owned Cassella and who had co-founded IG Farben. In 1929 he moved to Frankfurt and started working for IG Farben, where the Weinbergs had a substantial interest. From 1945 to 1952 he was leader of the Cassella works, and he became chairman of the supervisory board in 1952.
He was also chairman of the supervisory board of the Frankfurter Bank from 1952.
