Johann Czjzek von Smidaich
Johann Baptist Czjzek since 1899 Edler von Smidaich (born March 20, 1841 in Vienna ; † February 6, 1925 there ) was an Austrian industrialist and porcelain manufacturer.
Life
Czjzek was a son of the geologist Johann Baptist Czjzek . After studying chemistry, he first became a chemist in the porcelain factory of his uncle August Haas in Horní Slavkov (German Schlaggenwald) in western Bohemia. In 1867, together with his cousin Georg Haas von Hasenfels , Czjzek took over the first porcelain factory in Bohemia founded by Johann Georg Paulus in Schlaggenwald, the later company Haas und Lippert , until 2011 the company Haas & Czjzek . Under her leadership, the porcelain production in Schlaggenwald became important throughout Europe. Johann Baptist Czjzek bought the Aich estates in the Karlsbad district in western Bohemia and Smidar in the Neu Bydzov district and, in 1899, after acquiring the large estate in Smidar, received the hereditary-Austrian nobility with the predicate Edler von Smidaich .
Together with the heirs of the industrialist and wagon manufacturer Ignaz Schustala the Elder , he co-founded the "Staudinger Waggonfabrik" in Moravia, from which the Tatra Works later developed. He bought the weaving and spinning mill Fritsch & Co with six factories in Northern Bohemia and Brno and invested in companies in Hungary . He was a founding member of the Vienna Bank Association . After the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , he suffered heavy losses in Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary.
Johann Baptist Czjzek von Smidaich was one of the pioneers of the market economy .
family
His great-nephew is the Austrian musician and music teacher Anton Czjzek (* 1936).
literature
- Novel by Czjzek: Czjzek, Johann Baptist, Edler von Smidaich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 462 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans von Stratova: Wiener Genealogisches Taschenbuch . 1st year 1926 and 5th year 1933, self-published, line-up Czjzek von Smidaich .
- Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former government district of Eger, Volume 1 (AM) . Männedorf / ZH 1985, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , p. 104
- Biographical Lexicon on the History of the Bohemian Lands, Volume I (AH) . Published by Heribert Sturm on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich and Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 228
- Genealogical paperback of aristocratic houses in Austria , 5th year 1912/1913. Otto Maas, Vienna, family line Czjzek von Smidaich .
Individual evidence
- ↑ MfD: porcelain factory Haas & Czjzek provides a production. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czjzek von Smidaich, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Czjzek, Johann Baptist Edler von Smidaich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian industrialist and porcelain manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1925 |
| Place of death | Vienna |