Ignaz Glaser

Ignaz Glaser ( born May 5, 1853 in Bohemia; † August 11, 1916 ) was a Prague entrepreneur and founder of one of the largest sheet glass factories in the Austro -Hungarian monarchy.

Life

Ignaz Glaser acquired in 1881 in Bürmoos north of Salzburg from the bankrupt an earlier, four years earlier glassworks closed the factory building and a vast marshland. He started production again and extended the factory successively to four with peat heated glass furnaces. Glaser founded beside a business successful brickyard, which existed until the 1970s. Gradually he bought to other bog areas in the adjacent Weidmoos and Ibmer Moor, where he successfully grew hops. In 1901 the business opened in the located in Ibm Moor place Hackenbuch (municipality Moosdorf ) with the " Emmy hut " another glass factory.

As the peat supplies were inclined towards the end and also the operation with peat turned out time and again to be very uncertain because of the strong dependence on the weather, bought Ignaz Glaser 1913 in the North Bohemian Brüx an abandoned sugar factory and led them further than glass factory. Were here - to be independent of weather conditions - the ovens heated with coal obtained there in the open pit.

After the death of Ignaz Glaser 1916 Bürmoos be born on August 18, 1889 Son of Dr. Hermann Glaser took over the glass factory, which once enjoyed a brief flowering after the First World War. But you missed the transition to machine flat glass production, and in 1926 the business empire collapsed, the Glaser family. In 1929 Bürmoos flat glass of the company Stiassny was produced until the end, who had bought the property. Then again the glass production was finally stopped. 80 % of Bürmooser population were unemployed.

The grave of Ignaz Glaser is located at the Jewish cemetery in Salzburg Aigen. His son Hermann Glaser survived the Holocaust in Shanghai and died on 10 January 1956 in Vienna.

Reception

Ignaz Glaser is regarded as one of the most important founding fathers of the young community Bürmoos. In memory of a great part of the town's main street is named after him. Was processed Literary creating Glaser and its importance for Bürmoos from Salzburg writer Georg Rendl in his work The glassblower from 1937, the second part of a trilogy.

Named after him is the Ignaz -Glaser Symposium, a two -yearly event dedicated to integration, which is performed by the Salzburg education work in Bürmoos since 2006. Head of the series is the Austrian historian and political scientist Andreas Maislinger.

In the center of the first symposium was an exchange of experiences on integration and immigration with representatives from the communities of Braunau am Inn, Freilassing, Hallein, Mauthausen, Telfs, Traunreut and Waldkraiburg. Previous speakers on the topics of up to 2010, held symposia ( 2006: " Different Origin - Common Future", 2008: " Language (s) and integration " and 2010: "Courage is doing well - moral courage at all levels !") Were, among others, Marko Feingold, Reinhard Kaiser, Ludwig Laher, Bernhard Perchinig, Tobias Bauer Schedl, Gerhard Skiba, Herbert Gimpl, Anja Hagenauer, Bettina Kolbeck, Kurt Krammer and Gerlinde Ulucinar Yentürk.