Herman S. Doctor
Herman S. Doctor , also Hermann S. Doctor ; Czech Heřman S. Doctor (born April 6, 1820 in Horschitz ; † March 6, 1897 in Náchod , Bohemia ) was an important textile entrepreneur in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . In Nachod he founded the Doctor textile factory (in Czech : Textilní továrna Doctor ), which was soon named “K. k. Post or mechanical weaving and finishing Herman S. Doctor ”was named. For his services to the common good, he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Nachod.
Life
Hermann S. Doctor came from a Jewish family from Hořice (Horschitz) . With his wife Rosalie, geb. Fink (1831-1904) he had several sons and daughters. In Horschitz he is said to have initially operated a small house weaving mill. Around 1850 he moved this to Nachod in Jüdische Gasse (Židovská ulice) , house no. XIX, where he belonged to the Jewish community . There he first gave out cotton yarn to house weavers who wove fabrics for him. A year later, his company was in the corner house at Náměstí nos. 73 and 74. In 1877, he applied to the responsible district of Neustadt an der Mettau for permission to set up a steam engine in his house to operate looms. At the same time he set up a dye works and a storage room there. In 1880 he began building a large factory building across from Nachoder Bahnhof, in which 300 looms were put into operation in 1881. In 1896, 950 workers were employed in the Doctor's textile factory. The operation consisted of a processing plant as well as a sizing, bleaching, dyeing and mangling plant. In addition, in the 1890s he acquired the mechanical weaving mill "Gärber & Sindermann" in Komenského ulice, which produced brightly colored fabrics.
After his death in 1897, his sons Eduard Doctor (1858–1926) and Moritz Doctor (1860–1929) inherited the two textile factories. They also ran their businesses very successfully and were raised to the nobility by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1911 and 1912 .
literature
- Lydia Baštecká, Ivana Ebelová: Náchod . Náchod 2004, ISBN 80-7106-674-5 , pp. 167, 178, 180, 182, 191, 198, 206 and 217
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Doctor, Herman S. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Doctor, Hermann S .; Doctor, Heřman S. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian textile entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Horschitz , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1897 |
| Place of death | Náchod , Bohemia |