Ignaz Glaser
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Ignaz Glaser (* May 5, 1853 in Bohemia; † August 11, 1916) was a businessman from Prague and the founder of one of the biggest sheet glass factories in the k.u.k. monarchy.
[edit] Biography
In 1881 in Bürmoss by Salzburg he used the legal estate of a former glassworks company that went bankruptcy four years before and he bought a giant moor area. He expanded the factory with four glass ovens, which worked with turf. He also founded a brickyard, which was very successful and which existed throughout the seventies of the 20th century. Bit by bit he then bought further moor areas in the neighboring Weidmoos and at Ibmer moor, where he also started to cultivate hop. In the middle of the Ibmer moor area, in Hackenbuch, Upper Austria, he established another glass factory. The turf factory was very unstable because it depended on the weather a lot and the turf supplies draw to a close. Thus Ignaz Glaser bought a closed sugar factory in north bohemian Bruex und established a new glass factory. In that factory ovens were heated with coal from open pit, which made the company independent from weather conditions. After Ignaz Glaser’s death in 1916, his son Dr. Hermann Glaser, born on August 18 1889, took over the glass factory, which experienced a short economical boom after World War 1. But then the company missed the update to mechanical flat glass fabrication and the Glaser Empire broke down in 1926. In Bürmoos flat glass was produced by the company named Stiassny until the end of 1929, which had then bought the holdings. At this point glass fabrication was shut down totally. 80% of the population there was unemployed.
Ignaz Glaser’s grave is at the jewisch cemetery in Salzburg – Aigen. His son Dr. Hermann Glaser survived the Holocaust in Shanghai and died on January 10, 1956 in Vienna.
In 2006 the first Ignaz-Glaser-Symposium organized by Andreas Maislinger with focus on integration took place.
[edit] Literature
- Commercial Register Ignaz Glaser - unpublished.
- Georg Rendl, Die Glasbläser von Bürmoos. Romantrilogie. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1951.
