Georg Haas von Hasenfels

Georg Haas von Hasenfels (born December 6, 1841 in Steinhof ; † November 29, 1914 at Castle Mostau , West Bohemia ) was a major industrialist in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.

biography

origin

Georg Freiherr Haas von Hasenfels was a son of the landowner August Eusebius Haas (* 1804 in Schlaggenwald as the son of Wenzel Haas (1770-1830); † 1871 in Prague), who in 1836 with the doctor Johann Georg Lippert (* 1771 in Schlaggenwald ; † 1843) was authorized by a government privilege, from which porcelain production started in 1793 under the name "Paulus-Porzellan" in Schlaggenwald in western Bohemia was built up into the company "Haas und Lippert". In 1840 August Eusebius Haas bought the Königsberg estate on the Eger and in 1867 handed over the company in Schlaggenwald to his son Georg Haas (since 1899 Georg Haas von Hasenfels, since 1908 Baron Haas von Hasenfels) and his nephew Johann Baptist Czjzek (since 1899 Johann Czjzek von Smidaich ). The company, now "Haas and Czjzek", became under their leadership a significant company for the production of porcelain in Bohemia with sales markets in Austria-Hungary. The family originally came from St. Joachimsthal and Platten. His ancestor was the mountain master of Platten Christoph Haas .

Expansion of the company

After studying chemistry at the Polytechnic in Vienna and taking over the porcelain factory "Haas und Czjzek" in Schlaggenwald in 1867 as co-owner, Georg Haas acquired the porcelain factory in Chodau near Karlsbad in 1871 from members of the Porges von Portheim family . Georg Haas and his cousin Johann Baptist Czjzek set up sales outlets in Prague, Budapest and Vienna; there with the “Haas und Czjzek” ​​department store built in 1882 and 1883 on Kärntner Strasse and were sponsors of cultural institutions in Vienna. In 1886 Georg Haas bought the model estate and Mostau Castle near Elbogen from Count Thun-Hohenstein's agricultural specialist Anton Emanuel von Komers , continued cultivating the land and promoting the living standards of the residents there, and combined the property with the neighboring property inherited from his father Gut Königsberg on the Eger. After elevation to the barony in 1908 Georg Haas Freiherr von Hasenfels acquired in 1912 in Moravia, the castle Bítov the castle Zornstein at the Thaya and the associated large estates.

family

Georg Haas Freiherr von Hasenfels and his wife Olga († 1942 at Schloss Mostau), co-owner and open partner of the porcelain factory "Haas and Czjzek" in Schlaggenwald, had their son Georg Haas Freiherr von Hasenfels (* 1876), who moved to Schloss Vöttau after 1921 lived in Moravia. When the property in Bítov and the entire property of the family in Bohemia and Moravia were lost during the expropriation of the property in Czechoslovakia after the end of the Second World War, Baron Georg Haas von Hasenfels committed suicide in May 1945.

Honors

• Knight of the Franz Joseph Order
• Honorary citizen of the city of Koenigsberg an der Eger in Bohemia

literature

• Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries, published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum by Heribert Sturm , Volume I (A – H), Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1971, page 497.
• Heimatkreis Eger - history of a German landscape in documentations and memories, published by the Egerer Landtag eV Amberg in the Upper Palatinate, 1981, local history of Mostau (Mostov), ​​the Haas von Hasenfels family until 1945, pages 391 and 392.
• Lorenz Schreiner (editor): Monuments in the Egerland , documentation of a German cultural landscape between Bavaria and Bohemia, with the participation of the Cheb State Archives under Jaromir Bohac, Amberg in der Oberpfalz, 2004; there: Mostau (Mostov), ​​Georg Haas von Hasenfels, page 670, illustrations on pages 671 to 676.
• Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former government district of Eger, Männedorf / ZH, 1985, page 187.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser part B 1911 and 1941, Justus Perthes, Darmstadt, Haas von Hasenfels family.
• Genealogical pocket book of the aristocratic houses of Austria , 5th year 1912/1913 Otto Maas Vienna, lineage Czjzek von Smidaich.
• Hans von Stratowa: Wiener Genealogisches Taschenbuch 1st year 1926; 1st and 5th year 1933, self-published, line-up of Czjzek von Smidaich.