Johann Josef Ganahl

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Johann Josef Ganahl (born November 12, 1770 in Tschagguns , † September 26, 1843 in Feldkirch ) was an Austrian entrepreneur in the textile industry.

family

Johann Josef Ganahl was married to Susanna Keßler from Feldkirch, who died giving birth to her first child. His second wife Maria Anna was the daughter of the pharmacist Clessin. 14 children came from this connection.

Life and work

The Ganahl family comes from Bartholomäberg and his father Johann Ulrich Ganahl ran a trade (salt over the Schlappinerjoch , back wine) and cattle trade and was a lion landlord in Tschagguns.

Johann Josef Ganahl

Johann Josef Ganahl attended elementary school in Tschagguns and learned the commercial trade in Vienna and Dornbirn . Around 1790 he founded a shop for cotton, specerey and dyed goods in Marktgasse in Feldkirch and in 1797 he became a citizen of Feldkirch . Johann Josef Ganahl bought cotton, had it spun at home and then sold the yarn to the weavers.

Bludenz

In 1820, together with Franz X. Mutter, Christian Getzner , Andreas Gassner and C. Daller-Fels from St. Gallen, he founded the Brunnental mechanical cotton spinning mill under the company name Ganahl & Comp. in Bludenz.
This was the second cotton spinning mill in Vorarlberg . The machines came from Escher, Wyss & Cie. in Zurich with 5,508 spindles. The management was in the hands of Johann Josef Ganahl. In 1832 the spinning mill burned down to the ground and was not rebuilt.

Lauterach

He had owned a bleaching facility in Lauterach since 1827: in 1827 Johann Josef Ganahl, Mayor of Feldkirch, bought the former bleaching facility of the city of Bregenz and also acquired the house of the miller and bleacher Franz Josef Kühne , which is connected to the building .

He had it torn down and built a new building. This is where Ganahl set up his spinning mill. In 1830 Johann Ganahl leased the building from his father for five years and set up a factory for natural bleaching and cotton spinning there.

Feldkirch

Target of the kk Stadtschützengesellschaft Feldkirch with the factory building of the kk priv. Cotton spinning mill Ganahl & Sons, 1833

A year later, in 1833, Ganahl also bought a building site in Feldkirch and the water rights to the Ill . In the same year he established the Kkpriv there. Ganahl & Sons cotton spinning mill and thus the monarchy's first mechanical weaving mill.

Frastanz

His son Carl Ganahl (* 1807; † 1889) took over the colonial, forwarding and commission business in Marktgasse at the age of 22 in 1829. In 1833 his father took him on as a one-sixth partner in the new cotton spinning mill on the Ill. He gave him power of attorney in his absence.
Further companies were founded: Cotton spinning and weaving in Frastanz. He expanded the business with a ribbon weaving mill, a bleaching and finishing facility as well as a Turkish red dyeing and printing facility. In 1872, the company was Carl Ganahl & Co. renamed.

After the group of companies had been in the red in the textile sector for several years and could only be kept afloat by the annual profits of the subsidiary Rondo Ganahl AG (company in the paper and packaging industry; since 1911), operations were discontinued in 1986.

Today Josef-Ganahl-Straße in Dornbirn and Carl-Ganahl-Platz in Frastanz also remind of his work in Vorarlberg.

Political activity

Ganahl was also politically active as

swell

  • Nägele, Hans: Carl Ganahl, Victor Hämmerle, Andre Gaßner. Three personalities in the textile industry , Lustenau 1966
  • Ganahl: 160 years in the service of cotton 1797–1957. Commemorative publication on the occasion of the 160th anniversary

literature

personal data
SURNAME Ganahl, Johann Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur, textile industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Tschagguns
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1843
Place of death Feldkirch