Joh. Blazincic & Sons
| Joh. Blazincic & Sons | |
|---|---|
| legal form | one-man business |
| founding | 1845 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| Branch | retail trade |
Joh. Blazincic & Sons was a company in Vienna that specialized in trimmings and military uniforms during the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . The company was located at Stiftgasse 31 in the 7th district of Neubau .
history
Under modest circumstances, Johann Blažinčić founded a trimmings shop in Vienna in 1845 on the Wieden. In 1870 the founder's sons, Josef and Franz, joined the company and the company was renamed “Joh. Blazincic & Sons ”registered in the commercial register. Due to the special quality of its products, the company a distinguished clientele, which includes many civil servants, officers, generals, archdukes and the emperor had Franz Joseph I belonged.
At the beginning of January 1883, the emperor's high military chancellery asked the company to present general field bushes as resistant as possible to the effects of water or to discoloration by rain. On February 7, 1883 Josef Blažinčić put a green colored plume before that of examiners kuk headed the board of the military firm, the adjutant general Major General was Leonidas Popp, tested and found to be "wash-fast." For this, the company was issued an official certificate by the emperor's high military chancellery on February 14, 1883. The company was then awarded the honor of delivering the first real feather plume to the emperor himself on March 5, 1883. Since then, the genuine plumes have been used almost exclusively by the high generals and the General Staff Corps.
Participation in the world exhibitions in Vienna, Paris, London, Philadelphia, Antwerp, Moscow and Munich contributed significantly to the fact that the company “Joh. Blazincic & Sons ”has also been entrusted with orders outside of Europe.
At the above and other exhibitions, the company received more than 40 medals and honorary degrees in recognition of its achievements. In 1870 in London, Queen Victoria of Great Britain awarded the owner the silver cross with a blue ribbon. On the occasion of the 1873 World Exhibition in Vienna, Emperor Franz Joseph awarded the company founder, Johann Blažinčić, the gold Cross of Merit and occasionally the Gold Cross of Merit with the crown at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878 . Furthermore, the chief Josef Blažinčić was awarded the golden cross of merit with the crown by the highest resolution of April 25, 1889 in recognition of his meritorious, industrial and charitable work and with the knight's cross of the knight's cross by the highest resolution of June 22, 1901 in recognition of his many years of meritorious work Franz Joseph Order awarded. On December 18, 1883 he received the title of Imperial and Royal Kommerzialrat and on January 23, 1901 the title of Imperial Councilor. Furthermore, the owners were appointed as kuk court suppliers and were allowed to call themselves “kuk Hof-Gold-Trimmings-Ware- und Uniformsorten-Suppliers”. The company was also a chamber supplier to Archduke Franz Salvator. Archduke Karl Ludwig even paid the company a visit to their studio.
The collapse of the monarchy after the First World War and the abolition of plumes for uniforms in the new federal army brought difficult times for the company until it finally went bankrupt .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joh. Blazincic & Sons. In: Anniversary number of the imperial Wiener Zeitung 1703–1903. Supplement commercial part. Alfred von Lindheim. Druck und Verlag KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, August 8, 1903, p. 87 , accessed on August 22, 2009 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 12.1 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 15.1 ″ E