Carl Warhanek

Carl Warhanek

Carl Warhanek (born January 30, 1829 in Polná , † February 2, 1900 in Vienna ) was a Czech-Austrian canning entrepreneur during the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. The spelling of his name in Czech is Karel Varhánek .

Life

Warhanek was the son of a soap maker. His father sent him as an apprentice to a grocery wholesaler in Vienna. He recognized the linguistic and commercial talent of the young Carl and let him attend the Polytechnic Institute as a listener .

After completing his training, he became a business traveler and traveled to the Middle East, Russia and France as a buyer. In Marseille he got to know the processing of sardines into canned oil, whereupon he started his own business and opened such a company in Barcola near Trieste in 1858. He organized the sardine and anchovy fishing in the Adriatic and established factories in Grado and Duino (Italy), in Isola and Fasana (Istria), in Comisa , Postira and Makarska (Dalmatia) and in Capljana (Bosnia), in quick succession Eels have been smoked and marinated.

Around 1880, industrial processing of herrings into smoked products and marinades began in the North and Baltic Seas. Warhanek founded a fish canning factory in Vienna in 1880. He developed the fork roller in a bohemian, sweet and sour marinade, which was new for the Austrians. Further factories were opened in Budapest , Czalo headquarters in Bohemia, Zauchtel in Moravia and Mszana Dolna in Galicia, where he bought large beech forests. Barrels for the production of Russians were made from the beech wood .

Memorial plaque for Warhanek in Polná

The name of his company was C. Warhanek , based in Vienna. With increasing success he received silver and gold medals and honorary diplomas at exhibitions in Vienna, Paris, London and Trieste. In 1872, Carl Warhanek was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit with the crown awarded, for in 1883 kuk purveyor appointed and in 1889 with the Order of Knight of Emperor Franz Josef I. honored. He was made an honorary citizen by the cities of Polna, Zauchtel, Isola and Grado. Apparently there was an obituary for him in the municipal schools in Polna, which ended with the request: "Come on, boys, follow him!"

Carl Warhanek died in Vienna in 1900 unmarried and without descendants. He bequeathed his entire property to his nephew Hugo Anbelang.

In April 2000, ORF broadcast a short program about Warhanek.

literature

• Ingrid Haslinger: Client: Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .
• Erwin Till: The Austrian canned fish industry . Dissertation Vienna 1979.
• Hakan Gürses, Cornelia Kogoj, Sylvia Mattl (eds.). Gastarbajteri. 40 years of labor migration . Mandelbaum, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85476-117-1 ( Wien Museum catalog for the exhibition from January 22 to April 11, 2004).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ canned Producer Carl Varhánek. ( Memento from May 23, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Broadcast from April 22, 2000. In: ORF ON - Volksgruppen. On Archive.vn, accessed January 8, 2019.