Jirasko (company)
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1858 |
| Seat | Wiener Neustadt , Austria |
| management | Claudio Jirasko, Johannes Jirasko |
| Branch | optician |
| Website | www.Jirasko.at |
The company Jirasko is a traditional optician , which today has its headquarters at Bahngasse 44 in Wiener Neustadt . During the monarchy, the owner Adolf Jirasko was an imperial and royal purveyor to the court for optics.
history
The company was founded by Josef Jirasko in 1858 in Wieden at Margaretenstrasse 36. His son Adolf Jirasko sen. built the company to great success and was appointed court optician for the Viennese court. In 1910 his eldest son Adolf Jirasko jun. an optician training in the company. He learned the trade for three years and then went to Berlin, where he worked in an optical-mechanical factory. The First World War , the collapse of the monarchy in 1918 and the post-war years hit the company hard. Adolf Jirasko Sr. died and the widow had to continue the business until 1918.
The new owner Adolf Jirasko jun. had two sons, Heinrich and Kurt. The older son Heinrich also learned the optician's trade in his father's business. However, he was drawn into the Wehrmacht in World War II , and his father had to continue the business without his son. Due to severe bomb damage in the late 1940s, the branch in Favoriten had to be abandoned and the old branch on Margaretenstrasse was relocated to Operngasse in the 1st district of Inner City . Much of the archive material and equipment was lost as a result of the war damage.
Heinrich Jirasko came back in 1945. Adolf Jirasko jun. switched the production mainly to glasses and pince-nez . The production of optical instruments was stopped, they were only traded. With the reconstruction in the post-war period, the company was able to slowly recover and reach the business volume of the pre-war period.
After completing his apprenticeship, Heinrich Jirasko successfully passed his master's examination in 1951 at the Vienna Opticians' Guild.
Heinrich Jirasko was an early advocate of the early stages of contact lenses . After training in Germany, he started selling it. With the completion of his professional training, he and his father founded a "society under civil law", the technical side of the operation was taken over by the junior partner. Over time, Heinrich took over more and more areas of the business. In 1959 he bought a small shop at 3 Ungargasse in Wiener Neustadt .
In 1967 another facility was built in Neunkirchen . In 1969 the shop in Ungargasse was expanded and hearing aids were also sold from 1975 . With the death of Adolf Jirasko jun. In 1975 the company became the sole property of his son Heinrich.
The regulations of the trade regulations made it necessary for the contact lens optician to set up his own business premises in Wiener Neustadt and so he opened his fourth branch on October 1st, 1977 in Bahngasse, today's corporate headquarters. Heinrich Jirasko held several offices; At the specialist group opticians of the Chamber of Commerce, he was the specialist group board member responsible for the districts of Neunkirchen and Wiener Neustadt. After the section was formed as an independent national guild, he became one of its founding members. His most important area of activity within the state guild was the care with contact lenses.
Heinrich Jirasko had three sons, from whom Johannes and Claudio learned the trade of opticians. Johannes Jirasko successfully passed the master's examination in 1981 as one of the youngest and passed the contact lens license examination at the HTL for optometry in Hall / Tyrol on February 24, 1984. From March 1, 1983, the company was continued as a limited partnership due to the entry of two of his sons . Heinrich Jirasko died in October 1984.
On June 29, 1988 Claudio also passed his master optician examination at the HTL for optometry in Tyrol and then the examination to become a contact lens optician. The company, jointly managed by Johannes and Claudio Jirasko after the death of their father, continues to expand.In September 1996, another branch was opened in the Fischapark shopping center in Wiener Neustadt, and in 2002 one in the Mödling eye center at Bahnhofsplatz 1a.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Company history 1858-2004. JIRASKO optician, archived from the original on September 25, 2005 ; Retrieved April 28, 2010 .
literature
- Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 41 ″ N , 16 ° 14 ′ 16.1 ″ E