Moritz Jakob Oberländer

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Moritz Jakob Oberländer (also Moritz Jacob Oberländer , Czech Mořic Jakub Oberländer ; * 1831 in Náchod , Bohemia, † March 14, 1905 in Meran ) was an Austrian industrialist . He was one of the most important textile entrepreneurs in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy .

Life

Moritz Jakob Oberlander's paternal ancestors included Sinai Ben-Betzalel Löw (1509–1607) from Worms , who was an older brother of the famous Prague Rabbi Löw .

His parents were Jakob Oberländer and Anna, née Lewit (h) (1785-1893). In 1852 Moritz Jakob Oberländer founded a flax spinning mill in Eipel-Sychrow in the Trautenau district together with his father-in-law Philipp Morawetz, Leopold Abeles from Rothkosteletz and Markus Schwab from Prague . A linen and cotton mill was added in 1863. Due to the growing demand, he acquired another flax spinning mill in the nearby Marschendorf in 1867 . After the economic crisis in the early 1870s and the subsequent economic boom, he set up a jute mill in Eipel and a branch in Hronow, and five years later a cotton mill in Hořowitz. At the turn of the century, his company employed more than 4,000 people.

Moritz Jakob Oberländer belonged to the Jewish community in Náchod. In 1906 she built a poor and old people's home in Náchod as a foundation from Oberländers. He died in Merano in 1905. His sons Friedrich (Bedřich) and Philip (Filip) inherited his company shares .

The son with Marie born Morawetz (1840–1920), Philipp (* 1875), was ennobled by Emperor Franz Joseph I on October 6, 1910 by the highest resolution . He was a keen big game hunter who was killed by a buffalo on a safari in Sudan . A silver medal was minted in memory of his death on March 3, 1911. The Oberland thrush was also named after him because he was the patron of an expedition to East Africa during which the endangered bird species was discovered in 1914.

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  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Obituary
  3. ↑ In the ÖBL there is no clear indication of which Hořowitz.
  4. ↑ Number of workers around 1900
  5. ↑ Lydia Baštecká, Ivana Ebelová: Náchod . Náchod 2004, ISBN 80-7106-674-5 , p. 222
  6. ↑ [2]
  7. ↑ January Županič , ennoblement of Jews in Austria (1789-1918) (2016), p 588
  8. ↑ [3]
  9. ↑ [4]
  10. ↑ [5]
personal data
SURNAME Oberländer, Moritz Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oberländer, Moritz; Oberländer, Mořic Jakub (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian textile entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH After that
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1905
Place of death Meran