Ludwig Moser (entrepreneur)

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Ludwig Moser (after 1908)

Ludwig Moser (born June 18, 1833 in Karlsbad ; † September 27, 1916 there ) was an Austrian entrepreneur in the glass industry .

Life

After elementary school in Karlsbad, he completed four secondary school classes with the Piarists in Vienna and returned to Karlsbad in 1847 to finish school there. Family circumstances forced him to join Andreas Mattoni's glass engraving workshop as an apprentice in 1848 .

Then wandered Moser looking for work after Prague and other places and returned the end of 1850 back to Karlovy Vary, where he was to 1851 engraver worked for Mattoni. Then Moser was back in Prague, where he attended the Prague Art Academy to train himself in drawing. After another stay in Karlsbad in 1853, Moser went to Leipzig and Berlin , where he worked in a workshop for a few months.

Since 1855 he was back in Karlsbad and worked as a freelance engraver of monograms , scripts, coats of arms and ornaments on well beakers and other glasses. In 1857 Ludwig Moser founded an engraving and retail business in Karlsbad. The great demand for his engravings and stone carvings made it possible to relocate the Ludwig Moser glass shop to a better location in the city. He obtained the raw glass from the South Bohemian glassworks (including Meyr's Neffe, Wilhelm Kralik, Johann Lötz Witwe). Around 1870 an own company was opened in Meistersdorf near Steinschönau with engraving and grinding workshops. Moser opened up new sales opportunities by participating in exhibitions in Linz , Graz , Vienna as well as in Glasgow and Edinburgh .

The frequent shortage of raw glass led to his decision to build a modern glass factory with all branches of glass processing in Meierhöfen, only three kilometers from Karlsbad. With his sons he founded the Karlsbader Glasindustrie-Gesellschaft Ludwig Moser & Söhne AG company around 1890 . The construction of modern workers' houses with free apartments and heating enabled Moser to recruit the best specialists from all parts of Bohemia . The steadily increasing business prompted Moser to open branches in Germany and abroad, for example in New York , London , Paris and Saint Petersburg .

Ludwig Moser was a member of the board of the Karlsbad Jewish Community.

Honors

In 1901 Ludwig Moser was awarded the 3rd Class Order of the Sun and Lion , the 1908 Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order , the Osmanje Order and the Knight's Cross of the Belgian Leopold Order . He was appointed purveyor to the Persian court, in 1904 purveyor to the imperial court and in 1908 purveyor to the court of King Edward VII .

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personal data
SURNAME Moser, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur in the glass industry
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1916
Place of death Carlsbad