Ladislav Rott

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One of the Rott houses on the Small Town Square (Malé náměstí) in Prague, with frescoes by Mikoláš Aleš.

Ladislav Rott (born June 5, 1851 - † May 27, 1906 in Prague ), one of the sons and eight children of Vincenc Josef Rott , founder of the VJ Rott company on the Small Town Square , today Malé náměstí , in Prague (1840).

The brothers Ladislav and Julius (1845–1876) took over the family company in 1872. The jointly tackled expansion - above all of the activities, but also that of the necessary buildings - was entirely up to Ladislav after Julius' death.

The structural extensions in 1896-97 also led to the renovation of house no. 142 on the Small Town Square, with frescoes by Mikoláš Aleš , carried out by his employees Arnošt Hofbauer and Ladislav Novák.

With his wife Karolína, geb. Klecandová, Ladislav had six children, including Vladimír Jiří Rott , who - as the last entrepreneur of this well-known Prague family in Czechoslovakia - had to flee with his wife after the communist coup in February 1948.

After the turnaround in November 1989, the Czech media reported on Ladislav's proposal to tackle the Prague subway , which he submitted to the city council of the royal capital of Prague in the summer of 1898.

In one of the Rott houses, the second "robbery" of which Vladimir J. Rott (* 1950) lamented in 1993 (the first was in 1948 after the February coup ), the V. J. Rott House (pictured here on the right), a Hard After replacing a crystal glass shop, Rock Cafe ran a hotel in one of the others.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Dreyblatt - Who is Who in Central & East Europe 1933 . Retrieved November 4, 2014.
  2. ^ Company history - about V. J. Rott. Retrieved November 4, 2014.