Johann Kapsch

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Johann Kapsch

Johann Kapsch (born March 1, 1845 in Gottschee, today's Kočevje , Slovenia ; † September 28, 1921 in Vienna ) was an Austrian entrepreneur and founder of the Kapsch Group .

At the beginning of the 1860s, Johann Kapsch came from Gottschee, today's Kočevje , a place in the former Gottscheer region , to Vienna to begin an apprenticeship as a mechanic. On November 20, 1871, he married Theresia Panzer; they had 10 children, 5 boys and 5 girls. On October 31, 1892, at the age of 47, he founded the Kapsch precision engineering workshop with 18 employees as a sole proprietorship at Schottenfeldgasse 53 in Vienna-Neubau . The company manufactured electromechanical components for the telephone and telegraph network , but also early batteries such as the Leclanché element . The primary customer and for many years the only customer was the postal and telegraph administration in Austria-Hungary.

On June 3, 1904, after four sons joined the company, it was converted into an open trading company (OHG) with the title “Kapsch and Sons, a factory for telephone, telegraph and precision instrument construction”. In 1912, the patriarch Johann Kapsch moved to the Wienerberg , where the Kapsch Group has its headquarters as of 2012. In 1916 the company was converted into a stock corporation . After Johann Kapsch's death in 1921, the shares of Johann Kapsch were divided among his sons, the daughters received no company shares.

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SURNAME Kapsch, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur and company founder
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Kočevje , Slovenia
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1921
Place of death Vienna , Austria