Isidor Gistl

The grave in the cemetery in Frauenau

Isidor Gistl (born February 19, 1868 in Schweinhütt , † March 25, 1950 in Frauenau ) was a German manufacturer .

Life

The son of a sheet glass maker, glass carter and tavern leaseholder attended secondary schools in Deggendorf and Regensburg . In the glassworks in Oberfrauenau , which was owned by the Poschinger family , he learned the glass trade and management.

In 1894 he went to Regenhütte , where he was director of the Steigerwald glassworks there. In 1906 he returned to Frauenau and leased the Moosauhütte, founded by Johann Michael von Poschinger in 1848 (until 1924). He successfully expanded the business, the number of employees increased from 150 to 500 under his leadership. Then he bought land in Frauenau and built his own glassworks in 1923 according to the plans of the architect Georg Pabst.

In doing so, he took advantage of the special conditions of the inflationary period and, from August 25, 1923, had been printing emergency money , bank notes from 1.5 million to 5 trillion marks, with which he paid his workers and companies. The Gistl glassworks, completed in 1925 on the Zwiesel – Grafenau railway line , was one of the most modern crystal glass factories in Europe. In addition to the factory, Kommerzienrat Gistl had 27 residential buildings with 200 company apartments built on over 2,000 hectares , plus a spacious restaurant and the Gistlsaal , the largest event building in the Bavarian Forest at the time.

Gistl, who was a great patron of the community and the parish, made Frauenau an industrial location. The Great Depression survived Gistls companies, despite significant problems. In 1933/34 his attempt to buy the insolvent Glashüttengut Buchenau failed due to resistance from the state, which finally took over the property.

At the end of the 1930s he again employed 700 people. After the Second World War, the 3½ quintals heavy »Glass King« filed a trial in vain before the labor court against his master engraver Valentin Eisch when he founded his own glass factory in Frauenau in 1946. He then tried to boycott the new glassworks.

His first marriage was to Amalie Kaspar († April 1927) from Frauenau, through whom he became the father of eight children, three of whom died early. He looked for a housekeeper through a newspaper advertisement. His choice fell on Lucie Behrend from Meißen , whom he married in January 1930. After the divorce he married Pauline Bauer from Frauenau, his third wife. He died unexpectedly in the Gistlsaal after going to the cinema.

literature

• Heidi Wolf: A man goes his own way. The glass king Isidor Gistl and from forest worker to entrepreneur. Therese Eisch in Frauenau , both in: Wälder, Weite, Wildnis , edited by Harald Grill, Günter Moser, Wolfgang Bäuml, book and art publisher Oberpfalz, Amberg, 2000, ISBN 3-924350-85-X

• Hubert Ettl: On the way into a new era. Early industries in the Bavarian Forest , with essays by Katharina Eisch, Winfried Helm, Martin Ortmeier, ISBN 3-929517-32-9