Johann Schowanek

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Johann Schowanek (born April 24, 1868 in Pasek , Northern Bohemia ; † November 24, 1934 ) in Georgenthal, Morchenstern municipality, Gablonz an der Neisse district in Northern Bohemia, industrialist and founder of the Schowanek wood processing company.

Life

Johann Schowanek, son of a mill master and farmer in Pasek, joined the woodworking company of his grandfather Anton Pohl in Pasek in 1872 as a clerk, where he learned the trade of a wood turner and also worked on improving woodworking machines and their constructions. On April 16, 1896, he rented a mill in neighboring Dessendorf , where he founded a mechanical turnery with woodworking machines of his own design. In 1899, after a fire, the company was expanded to produce "textile wood goods and bobbins" for looms with worldwide export orders. In 1905, the equally successful production of wooden beads began.

On December 16, 1906, Johann Schowanek bought a plot of land in Georgenthal , a district of Albrechtsdorf, and on January 1, 1908, he set up another company. The entry in the business register took place on March 12 of the same year. There were u. a. Turned beads made of wood, celluloid and galalith , round wooden buttons and wooden products for the textile industry. His son Johann Karl Andreas Schowanek (* 1905 in Dessendorf, died 1964 in Piding, Berchtesgaden district in Bavaria) joined the company in 1921 and became a partner in 1928. His numerous patented inventions contributed to further success in the production of jewelry, enameled wooden beads and wooden toys.

After 1927, Christmas decorations , yo-yos , knotted bags made of wooden beads, wooden buckles and clasps, models of ships and planes were also made. In 1934 the company had 1000 employees and was the leading company in this branch in Europe.

After Johann Schowanek's death on November 24, 1934 in Georgenthal in Northern Bohemia, his son Johann Karl Andreas Schowanek (1905–1964) took over the management of the company.

After the Second World War in May 1945, the company was expropriated in favor of Czechoslovakia in the course of the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia. Johann KW Schowanek tried to start a new company first in Salzburg, Austria, but could no longer achieve similar successes as in Northern Bohemia and died in 1964 in Piding near Berchtesgaden in Baiern.

Licenses

After 1945, the company "J. Schowanek" received a production and distribution license for the scrabble, which is still known today, for the markets in Germany, Italy and some other European countries . The license production lasted from 1953 to 1958, after which it was transferred to the company JW Spear & Sons .

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SURNAME Schowanek, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Timber manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasek , Northern Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1934