Mundus AG

The Mundus AG was a holding company with the aim of production and marketing of bentwood furniture in Austria-Hungary .

history

The Austrian Mundus AG was founded on July 15, 1907 by the Jewish merchant Leopold Pilzer (1871–1961) from Galicia as a merger of a few small producers of bentwood furniture with the participation of Creditanstalt . After the Austrian Mundus AG, a Hungarian company, Mundus, based in Budapest , was founded a short time later by Pilzer .

The Austrian Mundus AG combined the following seven companies when it was founded:

• kk privileged factory of solid curved furniture Rudolf Weill & Co, Buczkowice
• Josef Hofmann Nachf., Bielitz
• Josef Jaworek furniture factories, Teschen
• Rudolf Lazar, Niemes
• Friedrich Flaschner, Bodenbach
• J. Sommer, Mährisch Weißkirchen
• Schlosser and Hückel, Drholec

The following six companies were combined in the Hungarian Mundus AG:

• Johann Weitzer, machine and wagon factory and iron foundry AG , Boros-Jenö
• Ungvár Electricity Company, Hungary
• Una Holzindustrie AG, Warasdin
• Josias Eissler & Sons, Košice
• Fiumaner Möbelfabriks-AG, Vrata
• kuk priv. Neusohler factory for furniture made of solid bent wood, vorm. Harnisch & Co, Neusohl

In 1914, Mundus took over the majority of shares in Jacob & Josef Kohn , and Mundus-Kohn AG was founded. Due to the political changes after the end of the First World War, the bentwood furniture industry found itself in a difficult situation, and in 1919 the headquarters of Mundus-Kohn AG were relocated from Vienna to Teschen . Finally, in 1922, Thonet AG was taken over and Thonet-Mundus AG was born. However, the two well-known brands Thonet and Kohn continued to be used separately. The management of the bentwood empire was now solely with Leopold Pilzer. He headed a group with 20 production sites, spread over the successor states of the former monarchy, as well as Germany and Austria with over 10,000 employees.

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Individual evidence

1. ^ A. Resch: Industrial cartels in Austria before the First World War, market structures, organizational tendencies and economic development from 1900 to 1913 . In: Writings on economic and social history. Volume 74, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2002
2. ^ J. Uhlíř: From Viennese chairs to architectural furniture, Jacob & Josef Kohn, Thonet and Mundus, bentwood furniture from Secessionism to interwar modernism. Böhlau, Vienna, 2009
3. ↑ Ottillinger, Eva B. (ed.), Gebrüder Thonet, furniture made of bent wood, Böhlau, Vienna, 2003