August Zátka

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August Zátka, pictured by Jan Vilímek

August Pantaleon Zátka (born July 27, 1847 in Budweis ; † January 31, 1935 in České Budějovice ) was an Austrian and Czech lawyer, businessman, politician and member of the Bohemian state parliament .

Life

August Zátka came from a wealthy industrial family that produced several proponents of the Czech national movement in the 19th century.

The house he was born in is a Gothic Renaissance house in the north of Budweiser Old Town. Today there is the so-called Hotel Zátkův dům in his honor , in which a late Gothic fresco was uncovered on the second floor during renovations .

After attending the Piarist elementary school in Budweis, August Zátka attended the grammar school in Jindřichův Hradec (Neuhaus) from 1857 to 1861 , where he lived with his uncle Johann. He then attended the German Piarist high school in Budweis and studied law in Prague , where he graduated in 1870 with a doctorate in law. He completed military service and a court internship in Graz and returned to Budweis at the age of 23 as a lawyer, where he opened his own law firm in March 1876. In the 1870s he worked, among other things, for the Budweiser Bürgerbräu , which was founded in 1795 and which mainly belonged to German-speaking Budweiser citizens and homeowners, and for the Budweiser Pfand- und Kreditanstalt Záložna českobudějovická, founded in 1864 .

In 1878 he married Johanna Klavíková, the granddaughter of the former Budweiser mayor František Josef Klavík. His son Vlastislav Zátka (1887–1962) was a board member in the Záložna českobudějovická .

August Zátka died at an old age in 1935 and was buried in the cemetery of the Church of St. Otýlie, now the crematorium, on Prager Strasse.

Create

August Zátka played a leading role in political and economic life in Budweis and in South Bohemia. Together with František Hromada he acted as a board member and co-partner of young Czech industrial companies with the aim of pushing back the dominant German industrial capital in South Bohemia.

Zátkas participated in the establishment of the cultural-political association Český politický spolek on April 13, 1871 and the association for the support of Czech education Matice školská on December 15, 1872, the third educational institution of this kind in Bohemia.

The First Budweiser Enamel Factory ( První českobudějovická továrna na smaltované plechové nádobí ) was established through his operation in 1893, and in 1895 August Zátka was one of the founders of the Czech joint stock brewery Český akciový pivovar , the predecessor of today's Budweiser Budvar brewery .

From 1878 until the First World War , Zátka was a member of the Old Czech National Party in the Bohemian Landtag. From 1918 to 1919 he was chairman of the provisional city government. In 1922 he was made an honorary citizen of Budweis.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the Hotel Zátkův dům
  2. ↑ Český politický spolek . In: Scientifically edited online encyclopedia encyklopedie.c-budejovice.cz about Budweis (Czech).
  3. ^ Matice školská . In: Scientifically edited online encyclopedia encyklopedie.c-budejovice.cz about Budweis (Czech).
  4. ↑ First Budweiser Emailfabrik . In: Scientifically edited online encyclopedia encyklopedie.c-budejovice.cz about Budweis (Czech).
personal data
SURNAME Zátka, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zátka, August Pantaleon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Bohemian-Czech entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Ceske Budejovice
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1935
Place of death České Budějovice