Metadata: E. G. Pick, the Cotton Spinning and Doubling Factory, Thread Manufacture, Trade and Retail of Textile Ware, Horní Litvínov (Oberleuttensdorf)
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State Regional Archives in Litoměřice
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní oblastní archiv v Litoměřicích
- Postal address:
- Krajská 48/1, Litoměřice, 412 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 477 755 975
- Web address:
- http://www.soalitomerice.cz/
- Email:
- info@soalitomerice.cz
- Reference number:
- 495
- Title:
- E. G. Pick, the Cotton Spinning and Doubling Factory, Thread Manufacture, Trade and Retail of Textile Ware, Horní Litvínov (Oberleuttensdorf)
- Title (official language):
- E. G. Pick, tovární výroba makintošových a kordových látek, niťárna, obchod a prodej textilního zboží, Horní Litvínov (Oberleutensdorf)
- Creator/accumulator:
- E. G. Pick, Maco Spinerei und Zwirnerei Cordfabrik, Oberleutensdorf (Horní Litvínov)
- Date(s):
- 1879/1945
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 2.31 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The Fonds contains the usual corporate documents (extracts from the Companies Register, construction, property and employment matters, technical documentation). As the owners were Jewish, some records relate to this in particular: inv. No. 36 Estimation of Jewish property 1939; inv. No. 43 A copy of the application for granting citizenship to Ing. Otto Pick and his wife and to Dr. Hanuš Pick, wife and two minor children (daughters) 1936; inv. No. 44 A copy of the request to return the property: applicants Viktor Heller, a factory owner in Richmond, England, estate of Eliska Heller and Jiří Schiller, landholder in Louny, estate of Arnošt and Helena Schiller 1947.
- Archival history:
- The fonds, which is not preserved in its entirety, was first deposited in the corporate archives of the national corporation BENAR in Benešov nad Ploučnicí, where an inventory was created by the company archivist. In 1988 it was transferred into the State District Archives in Litoměřice.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The company was founded in 1896 by Emil Gerhard Pick, a factory owner in Vienna, and Otto Pick, director of the mill in Horní Litvínov. The main factory was founded in 1907 as a spinning and spooling plant, in 1933 it was expanded by a production by of cord and spooling plant. Since ca. 1926, only a sole proprietor of the company is registered - Ing. Otto Pick. In March 1938, he travelled to Zurich and did not return to Czech lands again. In June the same year, he sold the company Pick the Cotton Spinning and Doubling Company in London. This transaction was rejected by the District Court in Horní Litvínov. In December 1938, Dr. Rudolf Pongs was appointed as the forced administrator (Treuhänder). In 1941 the company was purchased within the scope of ”Aryanisation” by the company Feinspinn- und Zwirnfabrik A.G. Horní Litvínov. The same company also bought the assets of the firm Heller and Schiller in Horní Litvínov where they produced children's toys and tin kitchen utensils. The owners and their wives died in concentration camps. After the war, the company was nationalised and was called Fine Spinning and Spooling Plants in Horní Litvínov, national corporation; in 1946, it was then incorporated into the Association of Cotton Plants, national corporation, Prague. In 1949, a national corporation Korda was formed by combination of several companies, which included also the plant in H. Litvínov. After its cancellation in 1958, the Litvínov plants were incorporated into the national corporation BENAR in Benešov nad Ploučnicí.
- Access points: locations:
- Horní Litvinov
- Oberleuttensdorf
- Access points: persons/families:
- Heller, Viktor
- Pick Hanuš
- Pick, Otto
- Schiller, Jiří
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged by an artificial ordering scheme as follows: Management and Administration; Employees; Supplies; Technical documentation; Accounting and reporting; Books
- Finding aids:
- Ševčíková D: E.G.Pick , Horní Litvínov 1879-1945, inventář 1976, 8 s., AP č. 635
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
