Hutter & Schrantz
Hutter & Schrantz is the name of two Austrian industrial companies (the steel construction company Hutter & Schrantz AG and Hutter & Schrantz Technische Textil GmbH ), whose roots go back to one of the oldest companies in Austria .
history
The joint company goes back to a screen maker workshop founded by Michael Hutter in 1824. Hutter was trained as a screen weaver and lattice knitter and came from Budapest . One of his journeymen in the craft business was Johann Schrantz, who married Hutter's daughter. The company received its current name through joint ownership. In 1866 the company was entered in the commercial register. The main product was screens for paper production. The workshop in Vienna's 1st district was soon expanded to include another production facility on the outskirts.
Michael Hutter died in 1878 and Schrantz continued the business alone. In 1884 Schrantz bought the "Wasenbruckmühle" in Wasenbruck, a place in the municipality of Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge , where he set up a felt cloth factory. The production of the felt cloths matched the existing range of products for the paper industry. Since Wasenbruck had no infrastructure and at that time only consisted of a few houses, Johann Schrantz also had to provide the necessary apartments, shops and social facilities. The result was a whole place that is also referred to in social research as the single factory town .
In order to better supply the Bohemian market with meshwork, he bought another factory near Prague . A plant with a lattice knitting facility was also built in Vienna- Favoriten . He built a central building in Vienna's 6th district. He died in 1902 and all three sons Alfred, Otto and Wilhelm Schrantz joined the company as partners.
His sons merged the company with the grid knitting and iron furniture factory Johann Merkatz in Vienna- Meidling .
The Lower Austrian Escompte-Gesellschaft supported the company in transforming it into a stock corporation in 1905. The majority of the shares remained with the previous owners. A second felt cloth factory was acquired in Niemes in Northern Bohemia , while a sieve and mesh factory was built in Budapest in 1912.
At the beginning of the First World War , five plants belonged to the group. The Prague plant was not incorporated into the AG. The group now has around 3,000 employees, 2,000 of them in what is now Austria. Even after the First World War, all of the plants still belonged to a stock corporation and Hutter & Schrantz was one of the few companies that did not lose any plant in the former crown lands during the war. In 1919 it was even possible to set up a factory in Niemes for the now Czechoslovak market.
Another production of felt cloths for the Hungarian market was planned in Pinkafeld . However, after Burgenland fell to Austria in a referendum in 1921, felt cloth production turned into a sheep wool factory.
The number of factories increased, but the number of employees steadily decreased, so that at the end of 1934 it was 1,361 employees, 997 of whom were working in Austria. The majority of the shares went in several steps to Escomptegesellschaft and from there to Creditanstalt . Wilhelm Schrantz was vice president of the stock corporation. Nevertheless, expansion continued. In 1936, three factories of the Carinthian Iron and Steel Works Company (Kestag) were purchased.
At the beginning of the Second World War there were seven plants in Austria with around 1,200 employees and three plants in the Czech Republic and Hungary with 500 employees.
After the war these three were lost due to the political changes. The remaining plants, on the other hand, expanded their product range from 1950 to include steel hall constructions and ceiling beams, where they soon became market leaders in Austria. Later other products such as plastic foam were also produced in Günselsdorf .
The Pinkafeld plant was closed towards the end of the 1950s, as was the Wasenbruck plant at the end of the 1970s. The felt cloth production was concentrated in Gloggnitz in the FEZ-Fabriken GesmbH . A steel structure was built in Klagenfurt in 1962, while the screens for the paper industry were concentrated in Vienna.
In 1975 the company moved into a new plant in Vienna- Liesing . In 1978 the steel construction company Haslinger Stahlbau was acquired. In 1992 the company was divided into individual companies according to the production sectors.
In 2007, as in previous years, Hutter & Schrantz was mainly represented in the Central European market. With 500 employees in Austria, Germany, Hungary and Slovenia a turnover of 60 million euros is achieved. No figures are known from Hutter & Schrantz Technische Textil GmbH.
In the 2008 financial year, Hutter & Schrantz achieved sales of 151 million euros. The consolidated result after taxes was 6.94 million euros.
useful information
The two Austrian songwriters and cabaret artists Pirron and Knapp allude to Hutter & Schrantz in their number “Affen-Theater” from the 50s. The song is about a Viennese family who visits the monkey house in Schönbrunn Zoo. In the first minute it says: “Since Burli frogt 'What's their name?' [meaning the two monkeys in the monkey house] and annoys his mother. 'Go Burli, get off your stupid dance! Look down at the Schüdl do: One of them is called Hutter, the other next to it is called Schrantz. '"This is actually the company sign of the cage manufacturer Hutter & Schrantz.
personal data
Since no separate pages are created for the most important people who are associated with the company, the most important data should be summarized here:
- Johann Schrantz (born January 5, 1830 in Papa ( Veszprém county ), † April 1, 1902 in Vienna) - Parents: Johann Schrantz and Elisabeth, née Hutter
- Wife: Stefanie Hutter (born December 25, 1829 in Vienna, †?)
- Son Alfred Schrantz (born September 23, 1867, † August 14, 1914 in Vienna)
- Son Wilhelm Schrantz (born September 27, 1868, † September 28, 1942 in Vienna)
- Son Otto Schrantz (born May 23, 1871, † March 13, 1919 in Vienna)
literature
- Big Business in Austria , p. 160 f
- Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors . Vienna: Schroll, 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mannersdorfer Insights ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.8 MB) Important personalities for Mannersdorf p. 20
- ↑ Diploma theses and dissertations 1991-2000 D 288 Schneider, Claudia: No job without a job? 1994, Dipl.-Arb., 1 vol.
- ↑ EANS-News: Hutter & Schrantz Stahlbau AG
