Moritz Doctor

Moritz Doctor (also Moric Doctor 1912–1918 Moritz Doctor, Edler von Hohenlangen , then Moritz Doctor-Hohenlangen ; born April 6, 1862 in Náchod , Bohemia , † May 29, 1929 in Vienna ) was a Bohemian textile entrepreneur of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . After its demise in 1918, his companies were located in Czechoslovakia and Hungary .

Life

Moritz Doctor came from a Nach or Jewish family. His parents were Herman S. Doctor and Rosalie, geb. Fink (1831-1904). His father owned the textile factory “ K. k. Post or mechanical weaving and finishing Herman S. Doctor ”(in Czech Textilní továrna Doctor ), which was the first of the post or textile factories to introduce steam engines to operate the looms. In 1896, 950 people were employed there.

After the death of their father in 1897, Moritz Doktor and his older brother Eduard Doctor inherited the businesses they had left in Bohemia and Hungary. In 1899 Moritz Doctor founded a textile company in Mittel Langenau in the Trautenau district , known as “ K. k. Mittellangenauer mechanical weaving and finishing Moritz Doctor ”. At that time 250 workers were employed there who produced raw and colored cotton goods on 512 looms. In the same year strikes broke out in several post-production or textile companies which, in addition to wage increases, also had an anti-Jewish background. Presumably for this reason Moritz Doctor and his brother Eduard moved their residence to Vienna in the following years, from where they managed their businesses.

After the death of her mother Rosalie in 1904, the Doctor's operations were split up: Eduard Doctor became the sole owner of the Nachoder company in 1905, whose company was now known as “ K. k. Post or mechanical weaving and finishing Eduard Doctor ”became known. Moritz Doctor took over the Hungarian possessions in Szombathely , which operated under the name "Szombathely Hungarian Cotton Industry Moritz Doctor". Around 700 people were employed in his factories who produced colored fabrics and bed linen, most of which were exported to the Balkans .

Because of his economic success Moritz Doctor received the title of Royal Hungarian Commerce Councilor and the Order of the Iron Crown III from Emperor Franz Joseph I on May 1, 1912 . Class . On June 8, 1912, he was raised to the nobility with the title "Noble von Hohenlangen". He was subsequently appointed to the Presidential Council of the Austro-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce in Vienna. After the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1918, his companies were located in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Then he held the office of Vice President of the Czechoslovak Chamber of Commerce in Vienna.

Moritz Doctor died in Vienna in 1929. His wife Josefine became heiress. After the Sudeten crisis , her textile company in Mittel Langendau was confiscated as Jewish property in 1938, Aryanized and taken over by Rudolf Böhnisch. Aprons, lingerie and work clothes were manufactured from 1938 to 1945. In 1945 Rudolf Böhnisch was expropriated.

The archive of the Mittel Langenauer company Moritz Doctor for the years 1923 to 1938 and the successor company Rudolf Böhnisch for the years 1938 to 1948 is in the collection "Lánovská továrna zástěr, prádla a pracovních obleků tkalcovna a přípravna" in the Zámrsk State Archives .

family

In 1895 Moritz Doctor married Josefine Vogel (1874 / 75–1946). She was a daughter of the industrialist Friedrich Vogel and Nanette nee. Pollák. The marriage had the only daughter Renée Margarethe (* 1897). She married Frederick E. Taylor, who died in New York in 1959.

literature

• Lydia Baštecká, Ivana Ebelová: Náchod . Náchod 2004, ISBN 80-7106-674-5 , pp. 167, 178, 180, 182, 191, 198, 206 and 217

Web links

• Biogram Moritz Doctor, Edler von Hohenlangen (1862–1929)
• Obituary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Moric Doctor
2. ↑ Textilka Doctor
3. ^ Zámrsk Archives