Karl Schell (entrepreneur)

Karl Schell (born December 19, 1892 in Alt-Langendorf , Bohemia ; † June 2, 1945 ibid) was an industrialist in Langendorf and Annathal (Annín) near Schüttenhofen ( Sušice ) in the Bohemian Forest .

Life

After studying electrical engineering at the secondary engineering school in Mittweida in Saxony, Karl Schell became a partner in the wooden goods factory in Langendorf in the Bohemian Forest, which his father Karl Theodor Gustav Schell had set up in 1885. His grandfather Johannes Schell, from Hanau am Main in Franconia, bought a hammer forge in the small town of Braunau an der Wottawa ( Otava ) near Langendorf in 1880 and converted it into a wood-wire cobbler's shop, which developed into a group of companies by 1945. In Langendorf and the surrounding area, the company was valued as a reliable employer in the economically difficult times between the world wars.

In 1928 Karl Schell took over the match factory set up by his uncle Louis Schell in Langendorf and became a co-founder of the Luma sales office of the Austro-Hungarian joint stock company Solo (matches) in Prague . In 1934 he bought the JE Schmid crystal factory and refinery in Annathal near Langendorf and married Betty Novotny, a daughter of the previous owner of the glassworks in Annathal Franz Novotny. In Langendorf, Karl Schell built a factory with the most modern technology at the time for the production of raw glass by means of electrical current, which was cut into crystal objects in the Annathal (Annin) glassworks. In 1938, the company "Schell und Neffe" in Langendorf employed around 220 workers, for whom there were separate cultural and care programs.

When, after the end of the Second World War, when the Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia on June 2, 1945, Karl Schell was asked to hand over the factory and come with him, and he committed suicide.

family

Karl Schell (1892-1945) was one of the three sons of the entrepreneur Karl Theodor Gustav Schell (born May 26, 1861 in Hanau am Main; † September 10, 1919 in Altlangendorf). His two brothers were Sebastian Schell, who studied medicine, and Theodor Schell, († 1920 in a hunting accident). Her sister Martha Schell married Emil August van den Abeele (* 1880 in Brz in Bohemia; † 1952 in Krumau in South Bohemia), Prince Schwarzenberg's forest master, who was first divorced to Maria Peschl († around 1970 in Straßkirchen with Passau in Bavaria), daughter of Prince Schwarzenberg's ruling director Emanuel Peschl.

literature

• Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 , Volume 10.
• Hoam. Monthly for the Böhmerwäldler , Mitteilungsblatt Deutscher Böhmerwaldbund eV, 40, 1987, 364 ff
• Josef Blau : The glass makers in the Bohemian and Bavarian Forest 2 , 1956.
• Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries , Volume III (N – Sch), edited by Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg and Helmut Slapnicka on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum , Munich 2000.
• In the land of the Künischen free farmers - home book for the central Bohemian Forest (district Bergreichenstein and adjacent areas); Grafenau in Bayern, 1979, there: Langendorf community with the section: Significance of the Schellfabrik for the Langendorf community, pages 292 to 314.
• Helene Bruscha: The Neumann house in Krumau in Böhmen and the families Balling, Ebenhöch, Neumann, Reising von Reisinger, Haslinger and Rosenauer In: Archive for family history research , 9th year, issue 1, 2005, CA Starke Verlag Limburg an der Lahn , van den Abeele, page 36.
• Glenzdorfs Internationales Genealogy Lexicon , edited by Johann Glenzdorf, Volume 5, van den Abeele, Columns 574 and 575, Bad Münster am Deister 1977.