Johann Georg Berger

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johann Georg Berger (born April 15, 1739 Ladendorf , Austria ; † February 17, 1810 in Prague ) was an Austrian cloth merchant and textile manufacturer who initiated the industrialization of Bohemia with his resistance to the guilds .

Career

Berger established a canvas shop in Prague in 1775 .

When in 1795 his companion Ferdinand Römheld sen. († 1830) had given the fairer Carl Bonte (1758–1817) purchased “raw cloth” to dye without having previously solved the permit, he got into a dispute with the guild.

In the years 1796–1800, he founded the first cloth factory in Reichenberg ( Liberec ) , against the resistance of the guilds . “On November 5, 1798, he was granted state authority and, by court decree of December 24, 1799, the Bohemian Gubernium was instructed to praise him and his partners (Michael Hauptmann and Ferdinand Römheld) on behalf of the court for bringing up the Bohemian cloth trade.” His “Kk privileged fine cloth manufactory” was the third in Bohemia.

Since there was no possibility of expansion in Reichenberg, he moved his factory to the suburb Alt-Habendorf ( Stráž nad Nisou ). For this purpose, he bought the manor house from the Frýdlant lordship in 1800. Römheld imported machines (spinning and clipping machines and sheep's wool cards; later also rapid riflemen) from Holland from 1800–1803. In 1802, when the 32 looms were set up, the guilds resisted violently.

Berger's former fierce adversary, the cloth maker Franz Ulbrich jun. began in 1802 with the establishment of a cloth factory and the highest head of the guild, Gottfried Möller founded a large finishing company in 1808.

Berger did not heat his kettle for dye broth directly with a fire, but with "condensation". The boiler erected for this purpose in 1904 later gave rise to speculations that it operated the first steam engine in Bohemia.

Johann Georg Berger's grave is in the Althabendorfer cemetery. An inscription in the anteroom of the church commemorates this first major industrialist in the Reichenberg area. After Berger's death, the manufacture was continued by his partners and later acquired by Josef Zimmermann from Liebenau , whose descendants ran it until the Second World War. Römheld sen., His son of the same name and son-in-law Joseph Hauptig entered into a contract with Franz Adam von Waldstein-Wartenberg in 1818 and ran the "kk priv. Graflich Waldsteinsche Feintuch- und Kasimirfabrik Römheld & Co."

literature

  • Jan Novotný, Pavla Vošahlíková: Biografický slovník českých zemí ; Volume 4 (2006), p. 426

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NLF Карточка на семью ( Memento from July 26, 2014 on WebCite )
  2. ^ Ludwig Huebner: History of the Reichenberg cloth makers guild ; P. 152
  3. ^ Johann Slokar: History of Austrian Industry and its Promotion under Emperor Franz I ; (1914), p. 341
  4. ↑ http://www.straznnis.cz/das-gemeindeamt/gemeindegeschichte/
  5. ↑ http://www.albert-gieseler.de/dampf_de/firmen5/firmadet51288.shtml
  6. ↑ http://www.reichenberg.de/die-geschichte-reichenbergs/gemeinden-aus-dem-stadt-und-landkreis-reichenberg-2/althabendorf-2/
  7. ↑ http://www.atrakcjetechniki.karr.pl/de/seiten/1185.html
  8. ↑ http://www.albert-gieseler.de/dampf_de/firmen5/firmadet51305.shtml
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cloth merchant and textile manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Shop village
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1810
Place of death Prague