Johann Josef Leitenberger

Johann Josef Leitenberger (born March 17, 1730 in Lewin , Leitmeritzer district , † May 30, 1802 in Wernstadt ) was an Austrian textile entrepreneur.

Johann Josef Leitenberger was a son of the Lewin master dyer Franz Leitenberger (1701-1802). He completed a dyeing apprenticeship with his father, followed by years of traveling in Italy, France and Poland and also worked in a calico printing company in Augsburg . After his return in 1764 he took over his father-in-law Reitländer's dye works in Wernstadt. In 1770 he built his own factory for blue printing, canvas and calico production, a cotton spinning mill in Teynhof in Prague and other places in northern Bohemia.

By introducing new production processes, Leitenberger became a successful entrepreneur. After he was the first to introduce a process for different colored fabric printing , the cultivation of madder and the French dyer's woof , he became one of the founders of the successful textile industry in Bohemia.

In 1793 he set up a textile factory for printed cloths in the former Piarist monastery in Kosmanos . His machine cotton spinning mill , founded in Wernstadt in 1794 and equipped with English Wyatts spinning machines, was the first of its kind in Bohemia.

With his son Franz Leitenberger (1761-1825), who was the heir to the calico factory in Neu-Reichenau, "Josef Leitenberger & Sons", which his father had built in an old farm, and later the sole owner of the Josefsthal-Kosmanos factory founded by Joseph von Bolza , they ran the company Plate pressure and the single thread spinning wheel. In 1810 they received the state factory license, introduced lapis printing in 1812 and English roller printing in 1815. As a result, the Kosmanoser fabrics achieved world renown. The son-in-law of his son Franz Leitenberger, the chemist Ignaz von Orlando (1785–1846), took over the management of the group after 1820.

Johann Josef Leitenberger died in 1802. Heir to the company was his son Franz Leitenberger. His younger brother Ignaz Leitenberger (1764-1839) inherited the teat and calico, roller and copper plate printing factory in Neu-Reichstadt . They were the first to introduce a smallpox vaccination to combat the disease in Bohemia .

His grandson Ferdinand Leitenberger (1799–1869) was a pioneer of the volunteer fire department in Bohemia.

His great-grandson, the textile industrialist Friedrich Franz Josef von Leitenberger , since 1873 with the title of nobility Freiherr von (1837–1899), son of the captain auditor Franz I (1811–1881), was honorary president of the Association of Cotton Manufacturers. He had the Leitenberger Palace in Vienna built in 1871/1872 . His son Friedrich Freiherr von Leitenberger (1862-1904) was the last male owner of the industrial company of the Freiherrn von Leitenberger, which was converted into a stock corporation in 1905.

literature

Heribert Sturm (Ed.) Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries, published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Volume II. R.Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 1984, ISBN 3 486 52551 4 , page 418 ff. Short biographies of the textile industrialists Leitenberger
Robert Lahmer: Some of the north bohemian calico industry . In: Mittheilungen des Nordböhmischer Excursion Club , 1888, pp. 298–304.
Hermann Hallwich : Franz Leitenberger Company 1793 * 1893. A memorandum . Publishing house of the Association for the History of Germans in Böhmen, Prague 1893, p. 39 ff. (On the vital dates in particular p. 43 and 93).
Ottův slovník naučný . Illustrovaná encyklopædie obecných vědomostí . Volume 15 (Krajčij – Ligustrum). Otto, Prague 1900, p. 813 f.
Franz Hantschel : Biographies of German industrialists from Bohemia . Artist, Bohemian Leipa 1920.
Procházka novel : My 32 ancestors and their clan groups , Leipzig 1928
Gustav Otruba : The Leitenberger family . In: Ferdinand Seibt : Pictures of life on the history of the Bohemian countries. Vol. 4, Oldenbourg, Munich 1981, pp. 91-180, ISBN 3-486-50591-2 .
Gustav Otruba : Leitenberger, Johann Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 165 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Hallwich gives this date of birth (1893) with reference to the church records, followed by Ottův slovník naučný (1900) and the ÖBL (1972). Instead, Procházka (1928) and Otruba (1981 and 1985) give March 27, which, according to Hallwich, is the date of baptism, not birth. Furthermore, in Lahmer (1888) and Hantschel (1920), January 20, 1726 is the date of birth; According to Hallwich, however, this is the first-born Johann Josef, who died as a child and whose name was then given to the third son, Johann Josef, treated here in 1730.
^ The date of death May 30 is given in Hallwich (1893) and in almost all later sources; only Procházka (1928) and Otruba (1981 and 1985) cite May 20 instead.
^ Hillbrand: Leitenberger, Franz. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 112.
^ Gustav Otruba : Leitenberger, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 165 f. ( Digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Leitenberger, Johann Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bohemian textile entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lewin , Leitmeritz district
DATE OF DEATH	May 30, 1802
Place of death	Wernstadt

[1] Hallwich gives this date of birth (1893) with reference to the church records, followed by Ottův slovník naučný (1900) and the ÖBL (1972). Instead, Procházka (1928) and Otruba (1981 and 1985) give March 27, which, according to Hallwich, is the date of baptism, not birth. Furthermore, in Lahmer (1888) and Hantschel (1920), January 20, 1726 is the date of birth; According to Hallwich, however, this is the first-born Johann Josef, who died as a child and whose name was then given to the third son, Johann Josef, treated here in 1730.

[2] The date of death May 30 is given in Hallwich (1893) and in almost all later sources; only Procházka (1928) and Otruba (1981 and 1985) cite May 20 instead.

[3] Hillbrand: Leitenberger, Franz. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 112.

[4] Gustav Otruba : Leitenberger, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 165 f. ( Digitized version ).