Johann David Starck

Johann (es) David Starck , from 1837 Edler von Starck (born May 3, 1770 in Graslitz , † November 10, 1841 in Prague ) was a Bohemian coal and steel entrepreneur and industrialist.

origin

The Starck family in Graslitz is said to have come from Nuremberg, which was doubted. Research has shown that the family name of Starck (Stark) can be traced for the first time in 1552 with a Balzer Stark in Prague , 1395 in Egerland and in Graslitz.

Life

The son of Josef Carl Starck (1728–1807) and Rosalia, née Riedl (1741–1803), from Graslitz No. 86, who had a distillery and a trading company and also worked as a house weaver, learned to be a wine merchant on the markets in Saxony first entrepreneurial steps. In the area of Plauen in Vogtland he got to know the lace manufacture and mousselin weaving, which he later introduced in Graslitz. In 1792 Johann David Starck married Marie Magdalena Riedl. His younger brother Friedrich Karl Starck (1773–1828) built the first cotton yarn spinning mill in Graslitz, still with manual operation, and his son Josef Karl switched to machine operation. The son of Josef Karl Starck, Franz Josef became director of the spinning factory in Leibitschgrund near Wildstein, acquired the Haberspirk estate near Falkenau an der Eger and made a considerable fortune.

To manufacture the vitriol oil required for bleaching, Starck built a vitriol factory in the old foundry in Silberbach in 1793. This marked the beginning of his entry into the manufacture of chemical products. After acquiring coal mines, Starck built tar paint works. Starck operated a. a. two mineral works in Altsattl and a factory for soot, paints and naphthalene in Unter Reichenau . He also owned operations in Haberspirk , several coal mines in the Falkenau basin , other mines and factories in the Pilsener Kreis near Božkov, Kaznau , Třemošná , Žichlice and, since the 1820s, a glass and chemical factory in Stupno. In 1823 he opened a sulfur ore mine near Christinenthal ( Kristiánov ), which was operated until 1830. In 1830 Starck was one of the richest men in the Karlsbad district.

Starck was raised to the hereditary Austrian nobility as Edler von Stark in 1837 for his services . 1500 workers were employed in the works of the Starck companies. The entrepreneur had the Starck colony built for his employees in Zwodau .

In 1837 Starck had a process he had developed for the production of limestone patented for eight years . He also sold his products to Saxony, the Rhineland, Holland and Belgium.

In 1841 his youngest son, Johann Anton Freiherr von Starck (1808–1883), took over his father's company. The Starck companies became Montan- und Industrialwerke AG in 1885 . JD Starck , based in Unter Reichenau. After the death of the main shareholder Anton Schobloch (1835–1900), a nephew of Johann David Stark and his universal heir, the industrialist and banker Isidor Petschek acquired his shares in 1900 . At the beginning of the 20th century, the company was completely taken over by the Prager Petscheks .

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Starck, Johann David Edler von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 37th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1878, pp. 214–217 ( digitized version ).
Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former Reg.-District Eger, Volume 2, Männedorf / ZH, complete production: Druckhaus Bayreuth, Verlagsgesellschaft mb H. Bayreuth, ISBN 3 922808 12 3 . P. 217.
Volksbote, February 16, 1970.
Sudeten German images of life, 2.
Jaroslav Jiskra: Johann David Edler von Starck a jeho podíl na rozvoji hornictví a průmyslu v západních a severozápadních Čechách koncem 18. a 19. století , 2005.

Web links

Commons : Johann David Starck - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature and other media by and about Johann David Starck in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
Genealogy of the Starck family
Description of the Christinenthal mine and Starck's life
Pedigree (accessed December 19, 2014)

Individual evidence

^ Church book of Graslitz, Births 1750–1778, Bl. 208R
↑ (Sudetendeutsche Lebensbilder, 2, 1930; Communications for the history of the Germans in Böhmen, 12 Jg., 1874, p. 212-233, Graslitz und seine Industrie)
↑ (Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Student Research. Egerländer at the University of Königsberg in Prussia 1544–1829, in: Der Egerländer, March 119 1875, p. 59)
↑ (Gierach: Sudetendeutsche Lebvensbilder 2, 1930)
↑ (Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) by Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg , Helmuth Slapnicka, Volume III, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 2000, ISBN 3 486 55973 7 , p. 718 f. )

personal data
SURNAME	Starck, Johann David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Starck, Johann David Edler from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bohemian coal and steel entrepreneur and large industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH	Graslitz
DATE OF DEATH	November 10, 1841
Place of death	Prague

[1] Church book of Graslitz, Births 1750–1778, Bl. 208R

[2] (Sudetendeutsche Lebensbilder, 2, 1930; Communications for the history of the Germans in Böhmen, 12 Jg., 1874, p. 212-233, Graslitz und seine Industrie)

[3] (Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Student Research. Egerländer at the University of Königsberg in Prussia 1544–1829, in: Der Egerländer, March 119 1875, p. 59)

[4] (Gierach: Sudetendeutsche Lebvensbilder 2, 1930)

[5] (Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) by Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg , Helmuth Slapnicka, Volume III, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 2000, ISBN 3 486 55973 7 , p. 718 f. )