Ignaz Glaser
Ignaz Glaser (born May 5, 1853 in Bohemia ; † August 11, 1916 ) was a Bohemian entrepreneur and founder of one of the largest sheet glass factories in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy .
Life
In 1881, Ignaz Glaser acquired the company buildings and an extensive moorland in Bürmoos north of Salzburg from the bankrupt property of an earlier glassworks that had closed four years earlier . He resumed production and gradually expanded the factory to include four glass ovens heated with peat . Glaser also founded a commercially successful brickworks that existed until the 1970s. Gradually he bought more moor areas in the neighboring Weidmoos and Ibmer Moor , where he also successfully cultivated hops . In 1901 the entrepreneur opened another glass factory, the "Emmyhütte" , in the town of Hackenbuch (municipality of Moosdorf ) in Ibmer Moor .
When the peat supplies were running out and the operation with peat turned out to be very unsafe due to the strong dependence on the weather, Ignaz Glaser bought an abandoned sugar factory in 1913 in Brüx in northern Bohemia and continued to run it as a glass factory. Here - in order to be independent of the weather - the furnaces were heated with the coal extracted there from the opencast mine . From 1891 he campaigned for the construction of a synagogue in Salzburg .
After Ignaz Glaser's death in 1916, his son Hermann Glaser, who was born in Bürmoos on August 18, 1889, took over the glass factory, which flourished again briefly after the First World War . However, the switch to machine flat glass production was missed, and in 1926 the Glaser family's corporate empire collapsed. Until the end of 1929, flat glass was produced in Bürmoos by the Stiassny company, which had bought the property. Then the production of glass was finally stopped here as well. 80% of the Bürmoos population were unemployed.
Ignaz Glaser's grave is located at the Jewish cemetery in Salzburg in the Aigen district . His son Hermann Glaser survived the Holocaust in Shanghai and died on January 10, 1956 in Vienna.
reception
Ignaz Glaser is one of the founding fathers of the young Bürmoos community. In memory of this, a large part of the town's main street was named after him. The work of Glazer and its importance for Bürmoos was processed in literary terms by the Salzburg writer Georg Rendl in his work Die Glasbläser from 1937, the second part of a novel trilogy.
The “Ignaz Glaser Symposion” was also named after Glaser, a biennial forum on the subject of integration , which was carried out by the Salzburger Bildungswerk in Bürmoos in the 2000s . The historian and political scientist Andreas Maislinger was in charge of the series of events . The focus of the first symposium was an exchange of experiences on the subject of integration and immigration with representatives from the communities of Braunau am Inn , Freilassing , Hallein , Mauthausen , Telfs , Traunreut and Waldkraiburg . Speakers on the topics of the symposia that took place up to 2010 (2006: "Different origins - common future", 2008: "Language (s) and integration" and 2010: "Courage is good - civil courage at all levels!") Included Marko Feingold , Ludwig Laher , Gerhard Skiba and Anja Hagenauer .
literature
- Commercial register Ignaz Glaser (unpublished).
- Georg Rendl: The Bürmoos glassblowers. Romantic trilogy, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1951.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glaser, Ignaz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian entrepreneur and founder of one of the largest sheet glass factories in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1916 |