Karl Konrad Tschira

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Karl Konrad Tschira (born September 23, 1868 in Lörrach ; † March 28, 1911 there ) was a court photographer from the grand ducal Baden .

Life

Karl Konrad Tschira was a son of the photographer Karl Christian Tschira. He received training as a photographer in his father's company and in Switzerland . After the early death of his father in 1888, he initially ran his father's business together with his mother, until in 1889 he took over the branches in Mühlheim / Alsace, Zell, Freiburg, Basel and the parent company in Lörrach. He was married to Ernestine Friederike (née Eichin) since 1889.

He made a name for himself as a good photographer and followed his father as a court photographer in Baden. Tschira expanded his father's entrepreneurial activities: in addition to the existing real estate, activities in the tourism industry took place. Karl Konrad Tschira recognized the beginning of tourism and acquired a number of guesthouses in the Harz Mountains in addition to the hotels and guesthouses in southern Baden . He reacted to the building boom of the Wilhelminian era and its foothills by purchasing several clay and clay pits, quarries and brickworks, also in and around the Harz Mountains. These activities were later merged in the Deutsche Gips Compagnie AG. At the age of 42 he died of a heart attack .

His wife Ernestine Friederike continued the business between 1911 and 1922 before handing it over to her son Hanns Tschira , then to Eugen Tschira and finally to Wilhelm Tschira.