Josef Holey
Josef Johann Maria Holey (born January 3, 1899 in Gablonz ; † September 25, 1986 in Trappenkamp ) was a German expert for glass production and an entrepreneur in the Gablonz glass and jewelry industry.
Life
After attending elementary school, grammar school and commercial academy in Prague, he was sent to the Tyrolean Kaiserschützen on the Italian front in the Dolomites during World War I in 1917 . In 1919 he joined the grandfather's "Anton Hittmann glassware manufacturing and export business" in Wiesenthal near Gablonz, and has now been running it since 1760 in succession .
During the Second World War he had to do military service again in 1941 and trained as a flight instructor for Wehrmacht pilots in gliding in Oschitz . In February 1945 he was transferred to the troops in the Netherlands, where he was captured by British forces, interned in East Frisia and released at the end of 1945. After the war, gliding became his hobby. At the beginning of the 1950s he was a training manager and flight instructor at the Neumünster Aviation Club.
Josef Holey died on September 25, 1986 in Trappenkamp. His urn was transferred in 2007 by his son Walter Holey to his birthplace in Gablonz an der Neisse.
Economic activities
In November 1945, Holey sought contact with Hamburg exporters for the purpose of building up the Gablonz glass and jewelry industry in northern Germany and in June 1946 first learned about the former Trappenkamp naval arsenal . Trappenkamp found Holey ideally suited for the settlement of the Gablonz glass and jewelry industry. The scattered, small bunkers were made for the familiar structure of the Gablonzer. He got in touch with Lutz Warschauer, the managing director of the North Economic Development Agency, with representatives of the Hamburg Senate, the state government of Schleswig-Holstein and the Segeberg district.
In the summer of 1946 he was assigned to Bunker G3 in Trappenkamp. There he built a glass printing works with the active help of the father brothers. In 1946 the production of glass buttons was started. In January 1947, the Holey family was assigned the mine detonator test house I in Trappenkamp as an apartment. For many years a residential building, it also housed the office of the re-established family company "Anton Hittmann Sons". Until the currency reform, Josef Holey's company flourished with the production of glass buttons and cat's eyes and was the largest of the 40 companies in Trappenkamp. Holey's business employed 54 people in eight bunkers, including 12 pushers, 6 haulers, 14 to 16 clippers, four unskilled workers, ten home workers, two clerks, an accountant and his son Walter as an operations technician. After June 20, 1948, the day of the currency changeover, very difficult times began. In addition to other items, hangings for chandeliers were also produced.
Political and scientific activities
Josef Holey was constantly involved in the further development of Trappenkamp. As its co-founder in 1946, he was extremely active in the “Trappenkamper Glas- und Schmuckwaren eGmbH” (36 companies), but also in his contacts with the representatives of the state government, Dr. Seehusen and Horenkohl. He maintained lively contact with Gerhard Gerlich , member of the state parliament , also within the framework of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft. Josef Holey supported Gerlich in efforts to raise Trappenkamp to an independent municipality (1956).
In 1949 Josef Holey was a co-founder of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft in Trappenkamp. From 1965 to 1977 he was chairman of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft district group Segeberg. From 1969 to 1976 he was in charge of the Sudeten German Kulturwerk SH.
In 1968 he severely restricted his operations. He now dealt intensively with expert opinions on antique chandeliers as well as repairs and the manufacture of replacement parts for such chandeliers. In order to research the history of the chandelier and the glass hangings, he maintained contacts with art historians, museums, conservators, institutions for the preservation of monuments and the German Research Foundation. These contacts and his publications on the subject of chandeliers and rhinestones (diamond imitation made of lead glass) made him and Trappenkamp widely known. His research on the chandelier is unique in the world and is still highly regarded today in all relevant circles.
He no longer achieved his goal of creating a “special encyclopedia of the crystal chandelier”. Death in 1986 ended his research project prematurely. His work is continued by the J. & L. Lobmeyr company in Vienna, which also owns the specialist legacy of Josef Holey.
In 1969, Josef Holey donated a chandelier from his workshop for the “House of Home” in Trappenkamp. Today this chandelier hangs in the museum bunker and is a reminder of the beginnings of the Trappenkamp settlement, whose development would certainly have been different without the glass industry, perhaps even not have taken place.
Awards
- Winner of the gold medal of honor of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft,
- 1970 Honored with the Rudolf Lodgman plaque,
- 1984 second winner of the culture award of the Sudeten German cultural organization SH
literature
- "The crystal chandelier, its origin and development", E. Gans-Verlag, Munich 1964, Google-Book
- “Two glass arm chandeliers in the Jenisch House”, self-published, 1968 Google Book
- “The story of the rhinestone”, self-published, 1972, Google Book
- In the Stifter-Jahrbuch, Volume 8, E.-Gans-Verlag, 1964; Josef Holey “Trappenkamp”, pages 7–44
Web links
- Josef-Holey-Weg in Trappenkamp , detailed biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holey, Josef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holey, Josef Johann Maria (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German expert for glass production and entrepreneur in the Gablonz glass and jewelry industry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gablonz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1986 |
| Place of death | Trappenkamp |