Theodor Grohmann
Theodor Grohmann , since 1909 Edler von Hohenwidim , (born April 27, 1844 in Zwickau in Bohemia ; † February 24, 1919 in Teplitz-Schönau , Czechoslovakia ) was a German-Bohemian industrialist and patron.
Life
His father, the textile industrialist Karl Grohmann (1809–1874), had been employed in Ignaz Martin's red yarn dyeing works in Martinstal near Zwickau from 1832, which he later leased. Since 1849 he was the owner of his own Turkish red yarn dyeing works in Lindenau . With the help of his four sons Martin, Johann (1842–1913), Theodor and August Grohmann (1855–1884), the business expanded and after 1872 it was known as “Karl Grohmann and Son”.
Theodor Grohmann and his older brother Martin (1840–1914) had been running their father's red dye works in Wisterschan since 1865 , which they expanded to include a spinning mill and a twisting mill. In 1876 they set up a red yarn dyeing plant in Bensen in northern Bohemia and in 1907 a Maco spinning mill with 24,000 spindles in Wisterschan, which employed over 500 people before the First World War. There was also a Vigogne spinning mill in Znojmo , which operated as the “Gebrüder Grohmann”.
In 1894 they acquired the coal mining company in Eisenberg near Brüx and in 1895 the “Kohlenwerke AG” in Bartelsdorf, where the “Grohmann shafts” were built, which developed into the largest mining company in the Komotau district.
Theodor Grohmann Edler von Hohenvidim left no children behind. Arwed (1874–1949) and Kurt (1885–1932), sons of Martin Grohmann, and their nephew Theodor Grohmann (1896–1983) continued the family business until they were expropriated and expelled after the Second World War in 1945 .
Elevation to the nobility
Due to his merits in the economic field, Theodor Grohmann was raised to the Bohemian nobility on October 25, 1909 as "Edler von Hohenwidim", the corresponding diploma was issued on January 22, 1910 in Vienna . After the end of the First World War in 1918, his name fell under the Nobility Repeal Act .
Social merit
When the Teplitzer Hut , built in 1887 above the Ridnaun Valley in the Stubai Alps , was destroyed the following winter, Theodor Grohmann, as chairman of the section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club in Teplitz , financed the reconstruction of a new mountain hut. This was named Grohmannhütte after him. As an enthusiastic mountaineer, he climbed almost all the surrounding peaks and made a significant contribution to the development of the southern Stubai Alps for tourism . In 1911 he took over the financial obligations for the neighboring miller's hut on Pfaffennieder , thus ensuring its continued existence.
literature
- Franz Hantschel : Biographies of German industrialists from Bohemia . Artist, Bohemian Leipa 1920
- Heribert Sturm : (Ed.) Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands, published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1979, ISBN 3 486 49491 0 , p. 471
- Hanspaul Menara , Hannsjörg Hager: Mountains and mountaineers: Alpingeschichte Südtirols , Athesia 1994, p. 79 u. 108.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl M. Brousek: Die Grossindustrie Böhmens, 1848-1918 , p. 93
- ↑ The Grohmann shafts ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grohmann, Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grohmann Edler von Hohenwidim, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian industrialist and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwickau in Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1919 |
| Place of death | Teplitz-Schönau , Czechoslovakia |