Moritz Schur

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Graves of Moriz and Jenny Schur in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Moritz Schur (Czech Mořic Schur ; born January 1, 1860 in Náchod , Bohemia ; † April 12, 1933 in Vienna ) was an Austrian industrialist . He was one of the most important textile entrepreneurs in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and, from 1918, in Czechoslovakia .

Life

Moritz Schur was the son of a leather merchant. After the early death of his father, he attended the commercial academy in Prague, after which he worked for a short time in a Prague sugar factory and then in the grain trade. In 1882 he married Eugenie (Jenny) , the eldest daughter of the textile manufacturer Isaak Mautner, and joined his company "Isaac Mautner & Son" as an employee. In 1884 he acquired the linen weaving mill built by Philipp Winternitz in Märzdorf in the Braunau district in 1859 , which he initially managed from Nachod. He succeeded in increasing sales through better and high-quality goods, so that he was able to expand the factory at the end of the 1880s. In 1892 he moved the company headquarters to Vienna. There were setbacks in production during the First World War and after the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918. After construction work, the Märzdorfer weaving mill could not be put into operation until 1921. In 1923 the company switched to rayon production.

As early as 1899, Schur had built a silk factory in Mährisch-Trübau , which was equipped with technical innovations. In order to prevent the poaching of employees, he supported the founding of the Trübau Industrial Association. At the same time he introduced social facilities for his employees. In 1906, Schur's eldest son, Johann, joined the Trübau company. In 1913 Moritz Schur acquired the Steinbrecher cotton dyestuff in Mährisch-Trübau, which he modernized and converted to silk dyeing. In 1919 Schur's sons Josef and Anton joined the company. Because of subsequent personnel problems, Schur took his nephew and son-in-law Kurt Goldschmid into the management of the company in 1920. In the same year he acquired the two Reichert velvet factories in Trübau. These were restructured into a stock corporation and traded under the name "Sammt und Seiden-Weberei AG, formerly Rudolf Reichert & Söhne".

Moritz Schur was a respected and successful entrepreneur. He was Vice President of the Association of Czechoslovak Silk Industries and at times chairman of the Jewish community in Náchod . He died in 1933; In his will, his estate was awarded to his sons Josef and Anton and their daughter Emmy, married Goldschmid. However, since bankruptcy proceedings were in place, they were not given the estate.

The Märzdorfer weaving mill was Aryanized after the Sudeten crisis under the then director Josef Schmidt and after the end of World War II expropriated by Czechoslovakia. In 1947 it was subordinated to the Nachoder Textile Association "Východočeské bavlnářské zavody" and dissolved in 1964.

There was no restitution of the factories to Moritz Schur's descendants.

Moritz and Jenny Schur found their final resting place in the old Israelite section of the Vienna Central Cemetery .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Board of Directors of the Náchod Jewish Community
personal data
SURNAME Schur, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schur, Mořic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian textile entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Náchod , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1933
Place of death Vienna