Josef Pöschl (industrialist)

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Josef Pöschl (born January 23, 1794 in Rohrbach in Upper Austria ; † December 13, 1882 there ) was an Austrian industrialist and politician .

Life

Josef Pöschl was born on January 23, 1794 as the son of (Franz) Josef Pöschl (~ 1756–1833) and his wife Magdalena (~ 1765–1813), née Gärber, in the municipality of Rohrbach in Upper Austria, which was part of the Habsburg monarchy at the time . After he received his commercial training from his relative Xaver Nehr in Trieste from 1808 to 1812 , he worked as an accountant for the Linz druggist and freight forwarder Kapler in Linz. In 1822 he took over the management of the father's tannery together with his brother Michael, which he then continued to run alone from 1839. In 1845 the factory patent was granted as the kuk state-authorized leather factory Josef Pöschl . During this time, the company's products mainly included sole, strap and bare leather. The company was already supplying Monturskomm in 1837. the army; In 1848 orders were placed for military shoes, for which the company employed hundreds of shoemakers in the Mühlviertel and southern Bohemia working from home .

The first steam engine began to be used in 1852, after which the first American splitting machines for leather production were purchased. Now the production of machine drive belts has also started. From 1860 onwards, the company headed by Josef Pöschl in Hungary extracted the oak bark , which is important for the tannery . After the factory production of military shoes took place from 1864, this was operated from 1866 together with the Flesch and Pollak companies in Vienna , with 3,000 pairs of shoes being produced daily. In the same year, new processing methods were introduced for the first time from England in continental Europe , especially for the finishing of sole leather. After the sons Louis, Friedrich, Franz and Rudolf joined the factory in Rohrbach and the branch in Vienna established in 1868, father Josef Pöschl left the management of the company and spent his retirement in the Upper Austrian capital Linz and his home town Rohrbach. From June 26, 1867 to November 3, 1869 he was a member of the state parliament of the German Liberal Party and at the same time a member of the cities and industrial locations in the Rohrbach electoral district.

Throughout his life, Josef Pöschl was constantly interested in improving the traffic conditions in the Mühlviertel and also tried to help the local house industry (linen) and the Mühlkreisbahn . In the years 1833 to 1841 he also acted as mayor of his hometown Rohrbach, where he distinguished himself above all for the water supply and the reconstruction after the fire of 1837. In 1848 he was an elector at the Frankfurt National Assembly . On December 13, 1882, about a month before his 89th birthday, he was in his home town in Rohrbach in Upper Austria. Even today, the Pöschlgasse , the Pöschl Villa , the Pöschlteich , the Pöschlpark , the Gerberweg and the groundwater monitoring stations in Rohrbach remind of the leather production of the family business Pöschl. The last remaining buildings from the era of leather production had to give way to residential buildings in 2012.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 300 years of leather factory , accessed on February 13, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Pöschl, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian industrialist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Rohrbach in Upper Austria , Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1882
Place of death Rohrbach in Upper Austria , Austria-Hungary