Karl Strobach junior

Karl Strobach junior (born March 12, 1870 in Mährisch-Schönberg , † December 18, 1929 in Prague ) was a German-Moravian paper engineer and general director of the paper industry AG Olleschau, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Life

Strobach was prepared by his father Karl Strobach senior through his training for his later work in the paper industry. He first attended the state trade schools in Vienna , Reichenberg and Bielitz . After studying at the Technical Universities of Zurich and Munich , he joined the Olleschau paper mill, which was run by his father, in the 1890s as an assistant to the technical director . From there, Strobach went to Ischora near Saint Petersburg , where he took over the management of the C. & Chr. Nebe cigarette paper factory .

In 1896 Strobach returned to Olleschau and took over the technical management there. It was thanks to him that the Olleschau paper mill received the Grand Prix at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . After the suicide of his father, who had brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy through malversations, in 1905 the Papier-Industrie-AG Olleschau, Prague, took over the factories of the liquidated Olleschauer Papierfabriks-AG in Olleschau and Langendorf . Karl Strobach was also given the commercial management of the company. He pushed ahead with the further modernization of the factory, so that in 1907 it was one of the most modern cigarette factories in the world. Strobach founded the worldwide reputation of the Olleschauer cigarette papers.

After the First World War and the proclamation of the independence of Czechoslovakia , the Olleschau paper mill had to assert itself against the strong competition in the German Reich, Austria and Japan. In 1922, under Karl Strobach's management, the company acquired the Prague paper mills in Prague- Holleschowitz (parchment paper ) and in Wran ad Moldau (cigarette, white silk and copy paper) and the Ignaz Weiß Sohn silk and cigarette factory in Horní Dlouhá Loučka . The range now included cigarette papers in sheets, bobbins, rolls, little books and tubes, chlorine- and acid-free papers, copier papers, Bible printing papers, and real parchment papers.

In 1922 Strobach was transferred to the position of general director of the newly created group based in Prague . Under his leadership, the Papier-Industrie-AG Olleschau, Prague received the Grand Prix for its products at the World Exhibition in Barcelona in 1929 ( Exposició Internacional de Barcelona ) .

Fonts

Letters from a papermaker to his son . Reprint from the weekly paper for paper manufacture, Biberach, Güntter-Staib Verlagsges. mb H., 1st edition 1923, 2nd edition 1924, 3rd edition 1934
The basic principles of mechanics and their application in paper mills . Güntter-Staib Verlag, Biberach-Riß, 1st edition?, 2nd edition 1925, 3rd edition 1934
The boiling and bleaching of the rags. Güntter-Staib, Biberach 1928.
The duties of the company officials and their auxiliary bodies. Güntter-Staib, Biberach 1931.

literature

NN, General Director Karl Strobach has died. In: Cechoslovakische Papierzeitung, IX. Year, December 21, 1929, volume 51, p. 1f;
NN, note about burial in Mährisch-Schönberg and photo by Karl Strobach, in: Cechoslovakische Papierzeitung, IX. Volume, December 28, 1929, volume 52, pp. 5, 7;
Olšany paper mills (Olšanska Papirna), The history of the Olšany paper mill, self-published, Olšany, no year

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personal data
SURNAME	Strobach, Karl junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Strobach, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Moravian paper engineer and general director of Papier-Industrie-AG Olleschau, Prague, Czechoslovakia
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mährisch-Schönberg (Czech: Šumperk), Moravia / Austria
DATE OF DEATH	December 18, 1929
Place of death	Prague (Czech: Praha), Czechoslovakia