Wilhelm Ginzkey
Wilhelm Ginzkey (born October 16, 1856 in Maffersdorf , Bohemia ; † April 30, 1934 there ) was an Austrian entrepreneur .
biography
Wilhelm Ginzkey, a son of the company's founder Ignaz Ginzkey , continued the development of the Ginzkey company, carpet and blanket production, in Maffersdorf near Reichenberg in northern Bohemia into one of the most important industrial companies of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy with far-reaching trade relations.
Together with his brothers Ignaz Ginzkey (1850–1895), President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Reichenberg , and Alfred Ginzkey (1866–1911), lawyer and graduate of the textile school in Leeds , he expanded the production facility in Maffersdorf in northern Bohemia with carpet chairs for jacquard weaving and blanket looms, with a considerable increase in jobs from an English weaving mill, an Axminster weaving mill, and a Smyrna weaving mill. A carpet measuring 16.20 mx 25.45 m was created in the hand -knotting workshop and was delivered to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York . For the employees of the company were social institutions, a company health insurance , a pension fund and a cooperative for inexpensive purchases. Martha Ginzkey had canteens built for the employees and a care center for the sick and old in Maffersdorf, which was handed over to the Maffersdorf community in 1904.
Wilhelm Ginzkey had been the sole owner and head of the company in Maffersdorf since 1911. He was the founder of the North Bohemian Trade Museum in Reichenberg and President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Reichenberg. From 1902 to 1918 he was a member of the manor house .
The company Ginzkey in Maffersdorf survived after the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918, the then incipient inflation of the Currency of 1923 and the Great Depression with the mass unemployment of the year were 1929 and 1930. In 1945, cast as troops of the Soviet Army Maffersdorf was the The Ginzkey family was expropriated and expelled as wealthy Sudeten Germans after humiliation and forced labor. In 1947, in Sankt Martin bei Lofer in Austria, a new start was made with the “Textilbetrieb Lofer GmbH”.
literature
- Home district Reichenberg. History of a German landscape in documentaries and memories. Amberg in der Oberpfalz 1981, page 585.
- Heribert Sturm (Ed.): Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries. Volume 1, Munich 1979, page 439.
- Jeschken-Iser-Jahrbuch 1962.
- New German biography, 6.
- Reichenberger Zeitung from September 20, 1953.
- The big industry of Austria 4, 351 ff.
- Announcements of the Association for Local Studies of the Jeschken and Iser-Gaues, 5, 1911, 165 f.
- New Free Press of July 1st and 8th, 1911
- Lotos (Prague), 84, 1936, 134.
- Annual reports, 1935, 41 ff.
- Inge Schwarz: Maffersdorfer Chronik. accessed on the Internet on August 24, 2009, in: Volume 1 The Ignaz Ginzkey Company; Volume 4 * Jolanda Ginzkey: In the Reichenberg district prison; Helmut Ginzkey: When the Jizera Mountains came to Gmünd.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ginzkey, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maffersdorf near Reichenberg in Northern Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1934 |
| Place of death | Maffersdorf near Reichenberg in Northern Bohemia |