Johann Liebieg

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Johann Liebieg, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1859.

Johann Liebieg (born June 7, 1802 in Braunau , Braunau district ; † July 16, 1870 in Smirschitz ), from 1868 Johann Freiherr von Liebieg , was a Bohemian textile manufacturer and industrialist.

Life

Johann Liebieg learned cloth- making from his father Adam Franz Thomas Liebieg in Braunau in Eastern Bohemia . His sister Pauline married the businessman Wenzel Rudolf Dworzak (1799–1841), who later joined Johann Liebieg & Co as a partner.

Johann established a small cutlery shop in Reichenberg in northern Bohemia together with his older brother Franz Liebieg (1799–1878) . In 1828 he and his brother Franz acquired a red yarn dyeing factory in Reichenberg founded in 1806 by Christian Christoph Graf Clam-Gallas , which developed into one of the most important textile factories in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy through the successful production of merinos , lastings and Tibet . After separating from his brother Franz in business in 1843, Johann Liebieg began manufacturing Orléans and mohairs , founded a worsted spinning mill in Reichenberg in 1850, in which 600 mechanical and 180 handlooms as well as 5,300 weft yarn and 2,000 carded yarn spindles were in operation in 1873 and continued to build his textile company out.

In 1845 he opened a cotton spinning mill in Swarow near Groß Hammer , with which he connected a spinning and twisting mill in neighboring Haratitz ten years later . In 1873 47,000 cotton spindles, 6,400 twisting spindles and 400 mechanical looms were in operation here. He built a second large cotton mill in Eisenbrod from 1856 to 1863 . Around the same time he built a worsted spinning mill in Mildenau in the Friedland district , connected to 120 handlooms, while he employed hundreds of such chairs in the surrounding villages. As early as 1841 he had built a dye works and finishing plant in Mödling for his central depot in Vienna , which he moved to Nussdorf in 1845 .

In 1852 Liebieg acquired an abandoned glassworks and important forests in the Hungarian county of Bihar . He settled Bohemian workers here, built roads at great expense, refurbished the glassworks and soon produced 60,000 quintals of glass a year. But he sold the property in 1866. Subsequently, he founded and acquired an important art mill in Haratitz, roofing slate quarries in Račitz ( Radčice ) near Eisenbrod, copper works in Rochlitz ad Iser and Gutenstein (Nö.) , A mirror factory in Elisenthal , limestone quarries and lime kilns near Smrčí near Eisenbrod as well as a steam board saw and a brewery on the domains Smirschitz and Horinowes in Königgrätzer Kreis , to which he bought the forest lordship Daschitz and Vysoké Chvojno in 1865 .

For his 6,300 workers and civil servants, Liebieg set up many humanitarian institutions (support institutes, bakeries, dining establishments, teaching institutions, day nurseries, housing estates), which required an annual expenditure of up to 20,000 guilders. In many cases he also participated in public affairs. He was chairman of the Reichenberger Gewerbeverein, president of the local chamber of commerce , 1849 delegate of the kk government to the economic committee in Frankfurt a. M., 1851 member of the commission for the regulation of the currency as well as long-time member of the Reichsrat .

Liebieg's sons Theodor and Heinrich as well as later family members also worked in the Liebieg company. The daughter Adeline (1837–1877) married Josef Mallmann (1827–1886) in Reichenberg in 1856 , from 1860 partner of Johann Liebieg & Co. in Reichenberg and head of the branch in Vienna, where he received Austrian citizenship in 1868 and became a hereditary knight was raised. The Liebieg works belonged to the largest industrial companies in Austria-Hungary and later Czechoslovakia .

family

In 1832 he married Marie Therese Münzberg (1810–1848) in St. Georgenthal near Warnsdorf (Bohemia) , a daughter of the linen manufacturer Anton Münzberg and Theresia Ulbricht . The couple had 4 sons and 7 daughters, including:

  • Johann (1836–1917), textile industrialist, partner since 1866, member of the state parliament from 1867–1869
  • Heinrich (born April 29, 1839 - † April 5, 1904), art collector, patron ⚭ Karoline Voigt (1848–1928)
  • Theodor (1840–1891), textile industrialist, partner since 1866, later owner of the "Freiherr von Liebieg" winery at Niederburg Castle in Gondorf near Koblenz ⚭ 1879 Angelika Clemens
  • Marie Pauline (1835–1914), director of the children's home built by Liebieg in 1865, donated her assets to church and charitable purposes
  • Adeline (1837–1877) ⚭ Josef von Mallmann (1827–1886), industrialist, since 1860 partner in the Johann Liebieg & Co. company, German consul from 1871, consul general in Vienna from 1881
  • Hermine (1842–1918) ⚭ Emil von Mallmann (1831–1903), banker in Paris, politician
  • Ida Josepha (1844-1845)
  • Leontine Wilhelmine Maria Anna (born February 26, 1846) ⚭ 1865 Adolf von Zahony (born November 12, 1833 - † July 24, 1907)
  • Gabriele Emilie Maria Anna (born February 10, 1848) ⚭ Karl Weinrich (born March 27, 1843), landowner
  • Bertha (1848–1911) ⚭ Baron Karl von Gagern (1846–1923) Legation Councilor, member of the state parliament

After the death of his first wife, he married Marie Luise Jungnickel (1830–1891), a daughter of the linen manufacturer Johann Nepomuk Jungnickel and Franziska Münzberg, in Burgstein near Böhmisch Leipa in 1853 . The couple had 4 sons, including:

  • Alfred (1854–1930), German consul general in Vienna ⚭ Therese von Mallmann (born November 14, 1862), daughter of Josef von Mallmann
  • Otto (1857-1930)
  • Karl (1866–1901)

All of them were sugar industrialists and were shareholders in the Skřiwan sugar factory.

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erhard Marschner:  Mallmann, Josef Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 737 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ OBV

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personal data
SURNAME Liebieg, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liebieg, Johann Freiherr von (from 1868)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian textile manufacturer and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunau , Braunau district
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1870
Place of death Smirschitz