Dr Frederick Steiner (FGS) was an Austrian born investment banker and businessman, who served as Director and Chairman on the boards of a number of major American and European companies in the period 1924 to the late 1950s.

Frederick was born in Vienna in 1890, graduated Vienna University (Law faculty) in 1913, and from 1915 was addressed as Dr Steiner. He completed his military service in 1917 and married in 1921 Else Franzos with whom he had one daughter, Ruth Lilian (born Vienna 1922) and one son, Francis George (born Paris 1929). Dr Steiner became a naturalised French citizen in 1938 and a naturalised American in 1946. He died after a brief illness in Zurich in 1968.

After serving the Austrian British Bank in Vienna as a legal advisor from 1921-1924, Dr Steiner moved to Paris where he joined the Investment Bankers Dillon Reed Corporation as a Paris based Director and represented them on the Boards of other companies in which they held an interest. In 1940 he moved to New York as the American based representative of the Arnholt Family Syndicate. He continued to serve on the boards of a number of companies including the Lazard Freres group.