Industrialist, patron of the arts, dedicatee.
The family cotton firm Paul Reinhart AG of Winterthur, originally founded in 1788 as Geilinger & Blum, is still in business.
Dedicatee of Othmar Schoeck's Sonata for Bass Clarinet and Piano Op.41 (1927-28), Gaselen, Op. 38 (1923), and the Suite for Strings, Op. 59 (1945), and of Ernst Krenek's Kleine Suite, Op. 28 (1924) and a piano Prelude (1944, W.o.O. 87)