Isaak Mautner

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Isaak Mautner (also: Isaac Mautner ; Czech: Izák Mautner ; * March 28, 1824, presumably in Horschitz ; † July 21, 1901 , ibid) was a Bohemian textile industrialist. His descendants in the family also played an important role in the Austro-Hungarian textile industry .

Life

Isaak Mautner was married to Julia (* December 27, 1823 in Náchod; † January 12, 1907 in Vienna), daughter of the rabbi Ascher Sulzbach-Rosenfeld. The marriage had nine children, only three of whom the parents survived. In 1848 he set up his own business in Náchod and initially supplied numerous house weavers in the surrounding villages with linen yarn, and from around 1860 also with cotton yarn. In turn, the house weavers delivered the fabrics to Mautner, who set up a finishing shop and warehouse for this in 1857 at Nachoder Strnadová ulice No. 48 , which he expanded in 1863 to include a dyeing and bleaching facility. He initially sold his white and colored fabrics made of cotton and linen to other entrepreneurs. In 1867 he opened with Maurice Lury as authorized representatives in Vienna a goods trade Commission was that on January 1, 1872 as "Open Society Isaac Mautner & Co" is entered into the Vienna Commercial Register. The Vienna stock market crash in 1873 brought the business to the brink of ruin, but Isaak's son Isidor , who had replaced Moriz Lury as authorized officer, managed to save the company. At the beginning of 1874 Isaak Mautner took his son on as an equal partner in what is now the company “Isaac Mautner & Son”. In 1876 more than 40 looms were working in the post or factory. In the same year Mautner expanded the company to include a packing system for the dispatch of the fabrics and an indigo dyeing plant that was powered by steam. Two years later he set up another dye works for brightly colored fabrics and another bleaching facility in his house in Kamenice . In 1876 Mautner also took over a mechanical weaving mill in Schumburg an der Desse , which was expanded to 1,100 looms by 1891. With the help of the Vienna branch, the company "Isaac Mautner & Sohn" succeeded in opening up markets throughout Austria-Hungary and the Balkans . From 1878 onwards, Mautner supplied the Austrian Landwehr with cotton articles via the Viennese clothing company founded by Isidor . In 1880 Isaak Mautner built a mechanical cotton weaving mill in the Nachoder district of Pilhof ( Na Plhově ). In 1891, 840 steam-powered looms were already in operation there. The number of employees rose to 500 by the end of 1892. In 1891 the city of Schumburg awarded the Desse Isaak Mautner honorary citizenship for his services. In 1893 a wood grinding shop was acquired in Trattenbach in southern Lower Austria , which was converted into a third mechanical weaving shop in 1896.
In 1894, on Mautner's 70th birthday, the secret organization "Peklo" carried out a bomb attack on his house in Kamenice . Isaak Mautner then temporarily relocated to Vienna. In 1895 Mautner received the title of commercial councilor . At the same time he became a member of the Permanent Commission. In 1899 strikes broke out in the post or textile companies Doctor, Hitschmann and Pick, which workers from the Mautner company also joined. In addition to demands for a wage increase, the strike probably also had an anti-Semitic background, as all Jewish shops in Náchod were looted at the same time. After Mautner granted the required wage increase, the strike in his company was peacefully ended.

At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, the Nachoder company "Isaac Mautner & Sohn", with two laundries, three mechanical weaving mills and the associated businesses, was one of the largest Bohemian cotton fabric companies. It employed around 1,800 people. Isaak Mautner shows great social commitment for them. He built workers' apartments at all company locations and a company kindergarten in Schumburg. In 1894 he added a pension, widow's and orphan's fund to the existing company health insurance fund. He was also chairman of the Jewish community in Náchod for many years. In 1898 he was made a knight of the Franz Joseph Order . After Isaak Mautner's death in 1901, the company was continued by his son Isidor Mautner and in 1905 it was transferred to the “Österreichische Textil-Werke Aktiengesellschaft formerly Isaac Mautner & Son”.
Isaak Mautner was temporarily chairman of the Jewish community in Náchod .

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  1. Information from Historická encyklopedie podnikatelů Čech, Moravy a Slezska , Ostrava 2003, ISBN 80-7042-612-8 , p. 296f.
  2. ^ Board of Directors of the Náchod Jewish Community