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.
literature
- Sabine Schöpf: Company history of the company Kapsch, diploma thesis . University of Vienna, 2005, p. 119 ( online ).
- Gottscheer personalities: Johann Kapsch (Gottscheer Zeitung, April 2011, page 5) (PDF; 2.6 MB)
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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 |