Metadata: Jan Liebieg and Company, Liberec
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Liberec
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Liberec
- Postal address:
- Vilová 339/24, Liberec, 460 10
- Phone number:
- 00420 488 577 812
- Email:
- sokaliberec@soalitomerice.cz
- Reference number:
- 702
- Title:
- Jan Liebieg and Company, Liberec
- Title (official language):
- Jan Liebieg a spol., Liberec
- Creator/accumulator:
- Headquarters of Johann Liebieg and Company, Liberec
- Date(s):
- 1799/1956
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 22.1 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds includes materials on the history of the textile industry in the Liberec region, documenting the business activities of Johann Liebieg & Co. including its subsidiaries and affiliates outside Liberec. Jews are mentioned under call number I/6, box 40: Minutes of board meetings - removal of Czechs and Jews from the management of the company, 1937-38.
- Archival history:
- The files were arranged in the company archives in 1959-60 and moved to the district archives in Liberec in 1961. The fonds was arranged in 1964.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In 1828 the brothers Johann and Franz Liebieg bought a factory that had been established in Liberec in 1806 by Count Clam-Gallas. In the second half of the 19th century the company was one of the most important textile enterprises in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1918 the company headquarters was moved from Vienna to Liberec, in 1941-42 the Liebieg syndicate was created, and in 1943 the factory began to be engaged in the war production. After the second world war the company was nationalised and was later called Textilana.
- Access points: locations:
- Liberec
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into three main parts: I. Management of the company, including subsidiaries and affiliates, II. Employees, their organisations and insurance, III. Accounting and reporting. At the end there are files of the national administration.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- V. Ruda, Jan Liebieg a spol. Liberec 1799-1946, Liberec 1963
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.