Carl Robert Stein

Carl Robert Stein (born May 22, 1852 in Kaiserswalde, Leitmeritzer Kreis , Austrian Empire , † July 8, 1932 in Groß Schönau , Czechoslovakia ) was an Austrian entrepreneur . He was one of the founders of the German laundry button industry and inventor of the solid laundry button.

Life

Carl Robert Stein was born as the son of the master shoemaker and later mayor of Kaiserswalde, Carl Friedrich Stein (1826–1875), who came from Berga in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . After attending the weaving school in Glauchau , Stein first worked in a Warnsdorf weaving mill. He then worked as an employee and traveler at a ribbon weaving mill in Schönau .

In 1878 Stein founded a factory for linen and thread buttons in Schönau. His entry as an entrepreneur was successful; Just two years later, Stein set up a branch in Äußerstniedersohland, Saxony , with which he tried to avoid the German import tariff . The mechanical button factory Carl Stein continued to expand and now also produced jersey, nickel, trouser and dress snaps. In 1907 Stein became a city councilor in Groß Schönau.

Before the First World War, his company had grown to become the European market leader for linen buttons and held a large number of patents. It employed a total of over 1000 people in Groß Schönau and Sohland . After the collapse of Austria-Hungary , Stein relocated the entire production to Sohland, while in Groß Schönau only one sales branch for the Czechoslovak market was maintained. In 1924 the Carl Stein button factory in Sohland had five employees, around 200 factory workers and around 700 homeworkers. A year later, Stein established the brand name "Adler-Knopf".

The Adler-Knopf-Fabrik Carl Stein in Sohland was expropriated and nationalized in 1949; it operated under the name VEB Formaplast Sohland during the GDR era, after which it became Jokey Plastik Sohland GmbH.

literature

• E. Lebensaft:  Stein, Carl Robert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 147 f. (Direct links on p. 147 , p. 148 ).