Isidor Bach

Isidor Bach (born July 1, 1849 in Fischach , † April 10, 1946 in Bern ) was a German entrepreneur. He was the first successful user of the production and sale of ready- to-wear sizes for boys' and men's clothing in Bavaria .

life and work

Isidor Bach was the son of Sara Deller and Israel Bach. He married Clärchen Selz on December 25, 1873 in Munich ; their children were Selma, Hugo and Alfred. Isidor Bach completed an apprenticeship in an Oettinger textile trading company in Augsburg and founded a company in Augsburg in 1871 with his younger brother Hermann that manufactured and sold loden clothing in ready-to-wear sizes.

In 1880 he rented the former Unterpollinger restaurant at Sendlinger Strasse 5 in Munich, where Hermann Bach ran a branch. In 1881 Isidor Bach moved the business headquarters to Munich. He recognized the profit prospects of factory-made clothing, even though in the tailoring trade the means of production require relatively low investment costs. In addition to the publishing system , he had it manufactured in his own workshops.

Based on a lawsuit by a Munich trade union, his factory in Munich was visited by the trade inspectorate on October 17, 1900 and a fine was imposed. A hygiene regulation found its way into the tailoring trade, which was previously practiced in the Stör without a permanent job.

In 1887, the Bach company acquired a property at Sendlinger Straße 6 that housed a 28-meter-long shop window for the retail business. Isidor Bach's sons, Hugo and Alfred completed a commercial apprenticeship and were also employed in the company. Hermann Bach's son Carl also joined the company.

On November 23, 1903, he opened a department store for boys' and men's clothing at Sendlinger Straße 3 in a building that was built by the construction company Hönig & Söldner. Ludwig III. came with Wilhelm Paul Oskar von Branca (* February 16, 1870, † September 18, 1958) for a factory tour. In 1904 he appointed Isidor and Hermann Bach to the royal Bavarian commercial councilors.

On November 9, 1923, Isidor Bach was one of at least 17 hostages whom the Freikorps Oberland deported as respected Jews via the Hofbräukeller to the Bürgerbräukeller during the Hitler putsch .

Against the background of a targeted smear campaign by the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) against Jewish business owners, Isidor Bach agreed with Johann Konen (born April 19, 1903 in Solingen; † June 25, 1989) on a management buy-out and migrated to his Daughter Selma to Bern. Bach's son Alfred and his nephew Carl, who ran the company until 1936, also had to leave their houses at Mauerkirchnerstrasse 55 and Böhmerwaldplatz 2 and went into exile.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Konen, The Roots: Isidor Bach's men's clothing factory
2. ↑ Dirk Walter, Anti-Semitic Crime and Violence. Anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic, Bonn 1999. P. 132
3. ↑ Roland Koska, Larissa Rashid, Isidor Bach becomes Konen , archive link ( memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.