Ladislav Bartoň-Dobenín

Ladislav Bartoň-Dobenín [ˈbartɔ̹ɲˌdɔ̹bɛniːn] (born as Ladislav Bartoň , 1912–1918 Ladislav Bartoň z Dobenína ; * 1858 in Vysoká Srbská , Kingdom of Bohemia ; † November 20, 1939 in Česká Skalice ) was a textile entrepreneur in the Austrian region from 1878 to 1918 Hungarian monarchy and then until 1935 in Czechoslovakia .

Life

Ladislav Bartoň's ancestors were long-established house weavers and linen dealers in Žďárky in the Hradec Králové region . His father Josef Bartoň-Dobenín was the founder of the Bartoň textile factory in Staré Město nad Metují , in which his sons Josef and Cyril also worked as partners. Ladislav learned textile dyeing from his father and then attended business school in Vienna. He then worked in Bohemia, Upper and Lower Austria as a sales representative for his father's company. In 1886 he set up his own warehouse in Prague and traded in products from his father's factories and other brands. In 1892 he set up a textile printing and dyeing factory in Bohemian Skalitz , where he refined raw materials from his father's factories and other companies. For his products he set up a branch in Vienna for the fabrics he sells. From 1893 his company traded as "Ladislav Bartoň, tkalcovna, parní barevna, úpravna a tiskárna České Skalice" ( Ladislav Bartoň, weaving, steam dyeing, processing and printing in Bohemian-Skalitz ).

On June 30, 1897, the factory as well as machines and goods were destroyed by a flood of the Úpa , making further production impossible. After consulting with his father and brothers, the second oldest brother, Josef, temporarily joined the destroyed company as partner and managing director. After he succeeded in rebuilding and renovating, he returned to his father's company in Staré Město nad Metují in 1903. During the period of reconstruction, the company traded as "Bratří Bartonové, tkalcovna, parní barevna, úpravna a tiskarna v České Skalice". In 1906 Ladislav expanded the textile printing and dyeing works. A year later he set up a mechanical weaving mill with 300 looms and a sizing facility. In 1913 he acquired the yarn spinning mill built in 1837 by Friedrich Eduard von Löbbecke and Hermann Dietrich Lindheim in Kleinskalitz . He expanded this to include a cotton weaving mill. Thereafter, the entire complex was renamed “Českoskalická přadelna bavlny, mechanická tkalcovna, barvírna a tiskárna, spol. sro Ladislav Bartoň-Dobenín “( Bohemian-Skalitz cotton spinning, mechanical weaving, dyeing and printing company Ladislav Bartoň-Dobenín ). Since he had no offspring, he sold his company in 1935 to his nephews Josef Bartoň and Alois Dinter from Náchod and to Jiří Čerych from Česká Skalice, husband of his niece Marie Bartoň-Čerychová (* 1902), daughter of Cyril Bartoň-Dobenín . The new owners traded as “Českoskalicka přádelna bavlny, mechanická tkalcovna a barvírna v České Skalici, sro, dříve Ladislav Bartoň”.

On the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1938 Ladislav Bartoň donated 10,000 crowns to the town of Česká Skalice for the needy. In the same year, the new owners sold the former company Ladislav Bartoň to a company that committed itself to paying a lifelong pension of 60,000 crowns annually and to further donations to Ladislav Bartoň.

Ladislav Bartoň was married to Maria Zahornová, daughter of a trader from Opočno , from November 18, 1895 . The marriage remained childless. He died at the age of 81 on November 20, 1939. In memory of their deceased brother, Josef and Cyril Bartoň-Dobenín donated 500,000 crowns to the town of Česká Skalice for charity.

During the time of the Protectorate , his former company was renamed "Ladislav Bartoň sro Česká Skalice" in 1940. By order of the Ministry of Economy and Labor, textile production in the former Ladislav Bartoň company in Bohemia-Skalitz was stopped on April 25, 1942. In the buildings of the weaving and spinning mill, which now traded as "Bartoň, Werk II", military accessories for aircraft were now manufactured, and war weapons were manufactured in the other factory buildings.

The Ladislav Bartoň company archive for the years 1878–1946 (1955) is in the collection “Českoskalická přádelna bavlny, mechanická tkalcovna, barevna a tiskárna, dříve Ladislav Bartoň, Česká Skalice” in the Zámrsk State Archives .

See also: Bartoň-Dobenín (entrepreneurial family)

literature

• Jana Novotná: Rod Bartoňů na zámku Nové hrady . Diploma thesis at the Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Praha, 2010, p. 51 ff.
• Ivan Česka: Rod Bartoňů z Dobenína . In: Rodným Krajem . Issue 20, 2000, pp. 42-44; Issue 21, 2001, pp. 20-21; Issue 22, 2001, pp. 40-41; Issue 23, 2001, pp. 20-21.
• Historická encyklopedie podnikatelů Čech, Moravy a Slezska . Ostrava 2003, ISBN 80-7042-612-8 , p. 32f.

Web links

• Personalities of the town of Česká Skalice
• History of the town of Česká Skalice
• Chapel of St. Agnes, the so-called Bartoň Chapel in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. One of the paintings shows the praying father Josef Bartoň and his three sons; during the communist period this painting was covered with wallpaper.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://badatelna.eu/fond/14090/
2. ↑ DPTX2010_1_1_0_258311_0_96347-1.pdf Adobe Acrobat