Georg von Schnitzler

Born into the family of briefadel, Georg was as the son of Paul Wilhelm Jakob von Schnitzler (1856–1932) and his wife, Fanny Emilie Joest (1861), younger sister of Carl August von Joest (1858–1942). Schnitzler studied law at a number of universities, eventually completing his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1907. After a year's travel he went to work for Bankhaus J.H. Stein of Cologne.

In 1912, Schnitzler moved to Farbwerke Hoechst, a company where his father held a leading position, and worked as a salesman of dyes in Munich for them. He joined the board as an alternate member in 1920 and achieved full membership in 1924. The company merged with IG Farben in 1925 and he was appointed an alternate member of their board, eventually becoming manager of their sales department in 1930. In 1927, he oversaw the establishment of a Franco-German dye sales cartel, and by 1932, had added Swiss and British companies to the arrangement. He became chairman of the Commercial Committee of IG Farben in 1937.

He married Lilly Bertha Dorothea von Mallinckrodt (1889–1991) in 1910. His new wife was a noted figure in German high society and Georg von Schnitzer himself was noted for his immaculate dress sense and expensive tastes in wine and the arts.

They had one daughter, Gabrielle von Schnitzler (1918–2017), who married Count Franz Joseph von Seefried auf Buttenheim, Freiherr zu Hagenbach, the youngest son of Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria and her husband, Count Otto Ludwig Philipp von Seefried auf Buttenheim, Freiherr zu Hagenbach (1870–1951).