Isidor Mautner

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Isidor Mautner (also Izidor Mautner) (born October 7, 1852 in Náchod , Bohemia , † April 13, 1930 in Vienna ) was an Austrian industrialist from the Mautner family .

Life

Isidor Mautner was the second of nine children of the textile entrepreneur Isaac Mautner and his wife Julia, née. Rosenfeld (1823–1907), born. In 1867 he joined his father's textile company. After he founded the commission trading company "Isaac Mautner & Co." in Vienna in the same year, Isidor moved his residence to Vienna in 1873 in order to save the trading company, which had got into difficulties after the Vienna stock market crash . After successful restructuring, he was accepted as a partner in what is now the company "Isaac Mautner & Sohn" on January 1, 1874.

On March 14, 1876, Isidor Mautner married Jenny Neumann, daughter of a wealthy Viennese silk merchant. With the help of their dowry, a mechanical weaving mill set up in 1868 by the Perutz brothers from Prague was bought in Schumburg ( Šumburk nad Desnou ) in northern Bohemia . Another mechanical weaving mill was built in Náchod in 1881. In 1893 a wood grinding shop was acquired in Trattenbach, Lower Austria , which was converted into the company's third mechanical weaving mill in 1896.

At the same time as his father's joint venture, Isidor Mautner built up her own textile company. In 1878 he founded the "cotton and linen supply company for the kk Landwehr von Mautner & Consorten" with trading branches in Prague, Budapest and Trieste as well as a "clothing company" in Vienna. In 1882 Isidor Mautner opened the “Waerndorfer-Benedikt-Mautner cotton mill” in Náchod together with his two brothers-in-law, which he ran alone from 1907.

Isidor Mautner had great success with the establishment of the Hungarian Textile Industry AG ("Magyar Textilipar RT"), which in 1894 set up three weaving mills, three spinning mills and several textile finishing plants near Rosenberg in northern Hungary . With exemplary social institutions, Isidor Mautner succeeded in ending the initial fluctuation in the workforce, which had seriously endangered the company's success. After setting up a Northrop weaving machine factory, Rosenberg became the largest industrial facility in the entire monarchy.

After the death of his father, Isidor Mautner transformed his father's company into the “Österreichische Textilwerke AG formerly Isaac Mautner & Sohn” with the help of the “kk priv. Allgemeine Boden-Credit Anstalt”. With the new financial possibilities, the company was systematically expanded in the following years in Bohemia; In 1906 the group was expanded to include weaving mills in Engenthal ( Jesenny ) and Grünwald , and in 1908 a weaving mill in Tiefenbach ( Potočna ) was added. In 1911 the Pick weaving mill in Náchod and a spinning mill in the Smíchov district of Prague were taken over. Isidor Mautner also acquired stakes in spinning mills in Zwodau and Reichenberg .

In 1911 a textile factory with weaving, spinning, dyeing and finishing was acquired in Langenbielau in Silesia . After acquiring a cotton mill in Plauen , the two companies were merged in 1915 to form the “Deutsche Textilwerke Mautner AG” based in Plauen.

1914-1918

After the monarchy's largest spinning group, the “Vereinigte Österreichische Textilindustrie AG”, which was founded in 1912, ran into financial difficulties due to the loss of the factories on the Isonzo front, Isidor Mautner's “Österreichische Textilwerke AG” took over their shares in 1916. To compensate for the lost businesses, the “Fried. Mattausch & Sohn AG for the textile industry ”in Franzensthal in North Bohemia and the“ Pottendorfer cotton spinning and twisting mill AG ”in Pottendorf ; 1917 followed the "Felixdorfer Weberei und Appretur AG" in Felixdorf . In order to become independent of deliveries "from hostile foreign countries", Eisenwerke Sandau was founded in 1916 to manufacture weaving machines and a carded yarn and vigoga spinning mill in Friedland (Frydlant) in northern Bohemia was taken over.

Since cotton imports had almost come to a standstill due to the sea blockade by the Entente powers, Isidor Mautner switched the production of his factories to paper textiles. For this purpose, paper mills in Priebus in Silesia , in Pöls in Styria and in Rosenberg were taken over in 1916 and 1917 and converted to the production of spinning paper. This was then processed into paper yarn. As a result, Mautner succeeded in ensuring that all of the factories operated even under the difficult conditions of the war economy. Towards the end of the war , Isidor Mautner ran one of the largest textile groups on the European continent with 42 factories and around 23,000 employees.

1919-1930

After the First World War , Isidor Mautner succeeded in adapting his group to the new circumstances. In 1919 the parent company was renamed “Textilwerke Mautner AG”. Due to the demand of the newly established Czechoslovak state for nostrification , the company's headquarters were relocated to Náchod in 1920, then to Prague. The "Vereinigte Österreichische Textilindustrie AG" now managed the Austrian group property, including the weaving mill in Trattenbach, which was exchanged for a spinning mill in Brodec in the Czech Republic .

The factories in Littai , Priewald ( Prebold ) and Haidenschaft , which formerly belonged to the “United Austrian Textile Industry AG” , formed from 1923 the Yugoslawische Textilwerke Mautner AG (“Jugoslovenske tekstilne tvornice Mautner DD”) based in Laibach .

Isidor Mautner also founded new companies, including "Vereenigde Textiel Maatschappijen Mautner NV" in Amsterdam in 1923, Belgrade Textile Works AG ("Beogradska Tekstilna Industrija AD") a year later, and a cloth factory in Ujpest, Hungary, in 1926 .

Isidor Mautner found it problematic that he lost the majority of his company through continued share increases in the Bodenkreditanstalt. In addition, "Neue Wiener Bankgesellschaft AG", which was founded in 1921 and was run by his son Stephan and to which he had entrusted his assets, ran into difficulties in 1924. In order to avert their bankruptcy, Isidor Mautner pledged his real estate to the National Bank, but this did not prevent the bank from going bankrupt. In addition, in 1925 he took over the majority of the highly indebted textile company Trumau-Marienthal in Lower Austria. After a temporarily positive course of business, this project ultimately failed due to Isidor Mautner's lack of liquidity. He had to leave the company to the Bodenkreditanstalt, which ceased operations in September 1929. After Isidor Mautner had already been forced out of the management of Textilwerke Mautner AG at the end of 1928, this marked the end of his entrepreneurial activity. He died on April 13, 1930 in Vienna.

meaning

Isidor Mautner was one of the great business personalities of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. With the generously endowed “Mautner Fund” he also made a remarkable contribution to the social security of his employees. For his services he was appointed to the Commerce Council in 1895, and in 1897 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order. In 1907, like his father, he became an honorary citizen of Schumburg.

With his wife Jenny, geb. Neumann, he had four children: Stefan Mautner (1877–1944), Konrad Mautner (1880–1924), Katharina Breuer-Mautner (1883–1979) and Marie Mautner-Kalbeck (1886–1972), who enjoyed an extensive musical education. The family lived for a large part of the year in the Geymüllerschlössel, which was purchased in 1888, in the Pötzleinsdorf district of Vienna , the so-called Mautner Villa. For decades it served as a meeting place for prominent cultural workers and promising talents. Isidor Mautner was also an important promoter of Viennese theater life. He was friends with the castle actor Josef Kainz , in 1924 played a major role in the financing of Max Reinhardt's newly opened theater in der Josefstadt and from 1924 to 1928 he was president of the “Wiener Schauspielhaus AG”.

literature

  • Wolfgang Hafer: The other Mautners. The fate of a Jewish entrepreneurial family. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95565-061-2 .
  • Reinhard Müller: Marienthal. The village - The unemployed - The study. Studienverlag Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4347-7
  • Karl Brousek: The big industry in Bohemia . Munich 1987
  • Ernst Oberhummer: The Austria-Hungary Cotton Industry, Vienna 1917
  • Isaac Mautner & Sohn, in: Leopold Weis (ed.), Die Grossindustrie Österreichs IV, Vienna 1898, pp. 250-252
  • Josef Gruntzel : The Austrian Textile Industry, in: Lepold Weis (ed.), Die Gross-Industrie Österreichs IV, Vienna 1898, pp. 193-203

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kk Handelsgericht Wien, Vol. XVIII, Pag. 218, Section VIII, entry January 1, 1874
  2. ^ Gerhard Stütz: History of the textile industry in the district and rural district Gablonz aN , Schwäbisch Gmünd 1977, 77
  3. ↑ Lehmann, logged Firmen1879, p 973
  4. ^ Lehmann, list of names 1908, p. 1208
  5. ↑ Hungarian textile industry Actiengesellschaft in Rószahegy-Fónógyar. History of its establishment and development presented on the occasion of the 50th anniversary. Business anniversary of its founder and president, Mr. Isidor Mautner . Leipzig 1917, p. 30
  6. ^ Kk Handelsgericht Wien, Section VIII, entry from November 18, 1905
  7. ↑ Saxon State Archives Chemnitz, 31151 and Sign. 62 Vol. 2
  8. ^ Report on the eleventh ordinary general assembly of Österreichische Textilwerke AG, formerly Isaac Mautner & Sohn, on April 27, 1917 , p. 4
  9. ↑ Report 1917 , p. 4
  10. ↑ Žandov / Sandau
  11. ↑ 14th General Assembly of Textilwerke Mautner AG 1921, p. 5
  12. ↑ France Kresal: Tekstilna Industrija v Sloveniji , Ljubljana 1976, p 56f.
  13. ^ Neue Freie Presse, September 19, 1925, p. 21

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personal data
SURNAME Mautner, Isidore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mautner, Izidor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Náchod , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1930
Place of death Vienna