Ergert

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Ergert is a German and Austrian family name . Variants are Erkert and Erckert .

The Ergert family was an Austrian entrepreneurial family . The family business founded Johann Jeremias Ergert in 1753 with a calico - Manufaktur in fork . Together with his son Franz Ignaz Ergert , he set up an early industrial factory in Gabel in the 1780s , later the " kk state- authorized cotton and towel factory Franz Ergert & Son ", which around 1800 became one of the main production facilities for cotton goods in Bohemia . In the town of Gabel, the family provided several councilors , three commanders of the kk privileged sniper corps and a mayor . After the elevation to the nobility in 1850, one branch of the family belongs to the Austrian nobility . Descendants now live in Germany and Austria.

Well-known namesake

See also

literature

  • Home register of the judicial districts Deutsch-Gabel and Zwickau in Bohemia 1975
  • Stephan von Keess: (Ed.), Presentation of the factory and trade in the Austrian imperial state, Volume 1, Vienna 1820
  • Peter Frank-Doefering, Adelslexikon des Österreichischen Kaisertums, Herder 1989

Individual evidence

  1. von Keess 1820, page 188
  2. Frank Doefering, 1989, page 289