Eduard Cerhak
The textile company Eduard Cerhak was an important trading company in the field of cloth trade in Austria-Hungary , based in Jägerndorf , today's Krnov in the Czech Republic . The company name (company) goes back to Eduard Cerhak († June 14, 1923 in Jägerndorf), who founded and expanded the company in the last quarter of the 19th century.
history
Cloth manufacturing in Austria-Hungary, the beginnings of which go back several centuries, was based in the northern countries of the monarchy, mainly in Bohemia , Moravia and Silesia . Like all branches of the textile industry , cloth production had gradually developed from the domestic industry into an extensive factory-run production, the growth of which went hand in hand with the progress of technology.
With this development of industry, the cloth trade also flourished and formed an important link in the economic life of the monarchy.
Eduard Cerhak in Jägerndorf had an excellent position in the cloth trade. Cerhak founded a cloth business in Olomouc on January 1st, 1878 . This newly founded company soon expanded, so that Cerhak opened a branch in Jägerndorf in 1888.
The focus of the business was subsequently shifted more and more to Jägerndorf and in 1890 the owner was forced to move the headquarters to Jägerndorf and to sell the Olomouc business. From that time on, the business took off and grew steadily. A large department store was built and moved into in June 1899. The department store was equipped with the most modern facilities of the time and, in structural terms, was an architecturally special building in the city. Its own mechanical worsted weaving mill with electrical operation was built around 1900. However, this was only operated on the side and was used to manufacture special items.
In particular with the production of the kk exclusively priv. Universal field and warehouse wool blankets, named Cerhak blankets, the company acquired a world reputation. This specialty of production found a tried and tested use in the Austro-Hungarian army . Cerhak was awarded first prizes at eleven outstanding exhibitions at home and abroad. The owner was also awarded as a purveyor to the court .
Cerhak cared for his employees. For the majority, he took out life insurance policies for respectable amounts and paid the premiums; the policies remained the unrestricted property of the insured.
In 1922 the company still existed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eduard Cerhak. In: Anniversary number of the imperial Wiener Zeitung 1703-1903. Supplement commercial part. Alfred von Lindheim. Druck und Verlag KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, August 8, 1903, p. 53 , accessed on October 25, 2009 .
- ^ Entry in Industrie-Compass Compass-Verlag, 1922