Moritz Hacker
| Moritz Hacker | |
|---|---|
| legal form | 1913-1940 OHG |
| founding | 1882 |
| resolution | 1973 |
| Seat | Head office in Vienna, from 1886 branch in Budapest |
| management | Hacker family |
| Branch | Manufacturing |
Moritz Hacker was an Austrian craft metal goods factory with headquarters in Vienna .
Company history
According to the entry in the Vienna Commercial Register, Moritz Hacker took over a Vienna branch of the Conraetz Chinese silver goods factory in 1882. The factory was at 8 Phorusplatz and a shop was opened at Operngasse 2. Hacker founded a branch in Budapest in 1896 (IV. Váczi ú. 36) and from 1901 the company name was “k. & k. Hof-Silber- und Chinasilberwarenfabrik Moritz Hacker ”. On January 15, 1913, the company was converted into a general partnership and the sons Alfred, Cornel and Erwin joined the company as partners.
From June 28, 1938 to April 6, 1939, Leopold Hartl was appointed acting administrator. The OHG was dissolved on April 18, 1940 and the company passed to Alwin Wagner. From 1945 the company was first managed by Franz Chroust and from 1955 to 1959 the Austrian asset protection company was appointed administrator, which ultimately led to the deletion of the company from the commercial register on April 18, 1973.
Not much is known about the range of metal goods produced. However, the Art Nouveau designs that have been carried out and that repeatedly appear in auctions are of excellent quality. Of particular importance were electrical lighting fixtures such as table lamps and connections made of silver-plated metal with glass, porcelain and majolica .
Participation in exhibitions
- 1883: Exhibition by the Lower Austrian Trade Association.
"... The Moritz Hacker company exposed a figural table top, a pair of candlesticks, a toilet set, two gold-plated credenz attachments, etc." (Wochenschrift Gewerbeverein 1883)
- 1898: Exhibition of the "Department for Small Businesses" of the Lower Austrian Trade Association.
- 1899: Exhibition of the "Department for Small Businesses" of the Lower Austrian Trade Association.
- 1901: Exhibition by the Lower Austrian Trade Association.
"The k. and k. Hof-Silber- und Chinasilberwarenfabrik Moritz Hacker, IV. Phorusplatz 7, brought a number of beautiful objects to the exhibition which were produced using the latest molding technology…. "(Wochenschrift Gewerbeverein 1901)
- 1909–1910 Austrian arts and crafts exhibition, Vienna
Hacker family
Moritz Hacker was born on March 6, 1849 in Hungary to Jewish parents. On April 28, 1878, he married Leontine Fischer (born December 10, 1858) in Budapest. The marriage resulted in three children, Alfred Hacker, Erwin Hacker (born December 28, 1884) and Cornel Hacker. Moritz Hacker died on September 19, 1932 and was buried on September 22 in the old Jewish part of Vienna's central cemetery, Group 50, Row 59, No. 23. His wife Leontine was deported by the National Socialists and died in 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp . Alfred Hacker was also killed in the concentration camp. His brothers Cornel and Erwin managed to escape. Cornel Hacker went to California with his sons Hans and Friedrich , Erwin Hacker to Australia.
Individual evidence
- ^ Cemetery database of the Israelite cultural community in Vienna: http://friedhof.ikg-wien.at/search.asp
literature
- Waltraud Neuwirth: Blooming Art Nouveau. Volume II. Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-900282-19-6
- Andrea Hodoschek: The tragic fate of the expelled Hacker family , Kurier August 9, 2015, p. 6