Franz Tobisch

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Franz Tobisch GmbH
legal form Sole proprietorship / GmbH
founding 1839
resolution 1915
Seat Vienna
management Tobisch family
Branch Haberdashery /
electrical cable production

The company's booth at the 1883 International Electrical Exhibition in Vienna
Franz Tobisch's lace room (before 1900)
Lead cable and stranding room
Meter room

The company Franz Tobisch was in the period 1839-1915, a haberdashery producers and a cable factory in Vienna . The company developed from a silk wire weaver to the first Austrian factory of insulated cables and wires for electric light, power transmission, telegraphy and telephony . The owners were Franz Tobisch, his son of the same name and his widow Caroline Tobisch.

history

Silk wire artificial braider

Franz Tobisch senior was born the son of a poor weaver . He learned his father's craft at home and in 1834 went from Priesen in Böhmen as a craftsman to the silk goods manufacturer Amon in Vienna. He quickly won the trust of his master, who soon entrusted him with the commercial agendas of his business.

After Tobisch sen. Having gathered experience and business knowledge in this position for three years, in 1837 he set up a silk fabric finishing facility under the most difficult conditions with modest means , which for the next two years brought hardly any financial profit. In 1839 he married a widow who knew little about making gimps , hat wire and wire ribbon. He took over her business on Krongasse in Wieden and thus laid the foundation stone for the wire and cable company, which is why it is also considered the year it was founded.

The little business grew rapidly under his leadership. At first there were only two spinning machines and an old loom , but with the onset of success, Tobisch sen. increase its number of machines and workers from year to year. In 1848 he moved his small gimp factory to Burggasse in Schottenfelde for business reasons . In the same year his son Franz was born. In 1855 he moved into his own house in Zieglergasse , in which he immediately adapted the entire first floor to factory premises.

By 1873 at the latest, the proprietor's son, Franz Tobisch jun., Was a partner in the business. At the then world exhibition in Vienna they exhibited as "silk wire art weavers". The objects on display were “wardrobe, flower, work and fruit baskets” as well as smoking sets, mostly wire baskets covered with silk.

Electric cable production

In the meantime, house telegraphy has become more and more widespread, and with it the need for the necessary line materials increased. With Tobisch jun. a breath of fresh air came into the company. He was able to persuade his father to replace human power with steam power . After much reluctance, he decided in 1876 to break with the old system and set up a small four-horse steam engine . When Tobisch jun. Having achieved this, he immediately took possession of the new article of manufacture, namely the insulated electric wires, and began to weave fine copper wires with silk , thread and wool, to produce wax wires and other weaker insulated wires. Franz Tobisch senior began to be ailing around this time and had to leave most of the running of the business to his son. He died after a long illness in Purkersdorf at the age of 70, and his son took over the management of the business.

Franz Tobisch jun. now trained the manufacture of insulated electrical conduction materials, in accordance with the achievements of modern electrical engineering, more and more. After the space in his house in Zieglergasse had become too tight for him, he bought a larger area at Schottenfeldgasse 60 and built the first Austrian factory of insulated copper wires for electrical light, power transmission, telegraphy and telephony there in 1883 . In the same year he supplied the insulated cables for the city lighting system in Temesvár . After the company was already there in Munich, it exhibited silk wires with a thickness of 0.5 mm to 5 mm, as well as cables with 7 to 343 contained wires , at the International Electrical Exhibition in Vienna in 1883 . Thicker insulated wires were also manufactured and they were the agents for Weiller's silicon bronze wire. By 1884, the company's products had received "five awards". In 1883 the company also received the honorable order to produce the insulated cables for the lighting systems of the kk Hofopertheater and kk Hofburgtheater . Franz Tobisch junior, born in 1848, was able to carry out these orders. no longer do it himself, because he died on December 9, 1885, leaving behind his wife and daughter Melanie.

His widow Caroline Tobisch, called Lina, took over the management of the factory, which at that time had already assumed a considerable size. Under her leadership, the factory produced, among others, insulated cables and wires for the Imperial Summer Palace in Lainz , the Hofburg in Vienna, the Austro-Hungarian technical administrative Militärcomité , the Imperial and Royal Navy Militärcomité , the distant kk postal economics management , the Lloyd Arsenal in Trieste , etc. Over the At that time the company description was slightly changed to the first Austrian factory of insulated cables and wires for electric light, power transmission, telegraphy and telephony .

Lina Tobisch had the mechanical design of the lines checked by scientific studies. On the basis of the results of these investigations, for which she set up a measuring room equipped with all the tools of modern technology in her factory, she expanded and improved the process for the production of insulated cables. In 1895 the company was awarded the title of kuk court supplier . According to the company description from 1898, Lina Tobisch was able to expand the company despite strong competition from home and abroad and the company had a good reputation.

New owners

With the articles of association dated March 23, 1907, Kurt Schmidt, factory director in Vienna, and Oscar Kolm, court attorney in Vienna, founded Franz Tobisch, Gesellschaft mbH in order to acquire and continue to operate the company from Karoline Tobisch. With the articles of association dated December 27, 1907, Kurt Schmidt resigned as managing director, followed by Max Reimann and Ferdinand Matauschek.

With the highest resolution of May 6, 1909, the machine attendant Ignaz Hintringer received the Silver Cross of Merit with the crown in "recognition of many years of loyal and praised professional activity dedicated to one and the same commercial company" .

Further changes of managing director follow. On December 19, 1911, the company, which was still based in Schottenfeldgasse, went into liquidation . With the decision of April 23, 1912, the bankruptcy of Franz Tobisch, Gesellschaft mb H. in liquidation was opened. On December 28, 1915, the company was finally deleted from the commercial register. The bankruptcy had ended due to lack of assets.

Caroline Tobisch, née Zehetner, was 80 years old and was buried in her husband's grave on January 9, 1939. ( Friedhof Meidling , Department B, Grp. 1, G57A) In 1915 the building at Schottenfeldgasse 60 was home to the "Usona", factory for rubber coats and waterproof equipment Ges. Mb H. and a state officials casino club.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Franz Tobisch . In: Presented by the industrialists of Austria under the high protectorate of His K. and K. Highness of the Most Serene Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Hrsg.): Die Groß-Industrie Oesterreichs . Festival ceremony for the glorious fiftieth anniversary of the reign of His Majesty the Emperor Franz Josef I. Volume 3 . Leopold Weiss, Vienna 1898, V. Electrical engineering, p. 253-254 .
  2. ^ World Exhibition 1873 in Vienna. Official catalog of the exhibition of the Kingdoms and Laender of Austria represented in the Reichsrathe , Verlag der General-Direction, Vienna 1873, p. 318 ( online in Google Book Search USA )
  3. Central Commission of the German Empire for the World Exhibition (ed.): Official report on the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 , Volume 3, Department 2, Friedrich Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig 1874, p. 666 ( online in the Google Book Search - USA )
  4. ^ Franz Klein, Niederösterreichischer Gewerbe-Verein (Ed.): Report on the International Electrical Exhibition Vienna 1883 , published by LW Seidel & Sohn, 1885, pp. 226–229 ( online in the Google Book Search USA )
  5. Company advertisement in: Elektrotechnischer Verein: Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift , 5th year, 1884, Julius Springer, Berlin 1884, p. 517 ( online in the Google book search USA )
  6. ^ Company logs. In:  Wiener Zeitung , Official Gazette, April 24, 1907, p. 522 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  7. ^ Company logs. In:  Wiener Zeitung , Official Gazette, January 18, 1908, p. 72 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  8. Official part. In:  Wiener Zeitung , May 9, 1909, p. 2 (bottom middle column) (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  9. For example Arthur Schwarz instead of the previously unnamed Carl Rückl; Company logging. In:  Wiener Zeitung , Official Journal, March 25, 1911, p. 384 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  10. Advertisements - Calling creditors. In:  Wiener Zeitung , January 6, 1912, p. 18 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  11. bankruptcies. In:  Wiener Zeitung , Official Gazette, April 26, 1912, p. 551 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  12. Company logs - deletions. In:  Wiener Zeitung , Official Journal, January 8, 1916, p. 17 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  13. ^ Database of Viennese cemeteries : Tobisch, Franz and Tobisch, Karoline
  14. Company logs. In:  Wiener Zeitung , Official Journal, March 13, 1915, p. 231 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  15. ^ Association news. In:  Wiener Zeitung , October 9, 1915, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz