Partnership agreement LINZ 1893: 1. top roasted. Fruit wine press APFELTHALLER & Co.

 

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You are bidding on one handwritten partnership agreement from 1893 out of Linz.

 

Composed and signed by Notary Richard Newald.

 

The merchants Wilhelm Hirsch (1848-1916) and Rudolf Apfelthaller (*1856) found the company “First Upper Austrian fruit wine press Apfelthaller & Co.”

 

About this company: "In 1892/93 a fruit wine press was founded, which was previously located on the main square and was owned by Hermann Hofmann, the son of Franz Hofmann. In 1893 this company was founded by Wilhelm Hirsch and Rudolf Apfelthaller accepted. Commercial court entry that was deleted in 1897." (Source: Michael John: From general store to department store. On the establishment of modern consumer culture in an Austrian provincial town in the 19th century. and 20. Century, in: Luxury and Consumption – a historical approach, ed. by Reinhold Reith and Torsten Meyer, Münster et al. 2003, pp. 181-208, spec. p. 187, footnote 23).

 

Dated Linz, 1. July 1893.

 

Scope: 13 written pages (33.8 x 21 cm); 7 blank pages follow.

 

Signed from the notary Newald, the two partners Hirsch and Apfelthaller and the witness Alois Heininger.

 

With a beautiful notary seal.

 

 

About Wilhelm Hirsch and Rudolf Apfelthaller:

 

Wilhelm Hirsch (born 11. February 1848 in Königswart, died. 24. October 1916 in Vienna), owner of a manufactured goods conversion in Vienna; Shareholder of the combined companies Franz Hofmann and Kraus & Schober in Linz (first modern department store in Linz!), board of directors of Union-Bank, board of directors of Österreichischer Lloyd and Veitscher Magnesitwerke AG. His wife Josefine, b. Hofmann (d. 1922) was a daughter of the merchant Franz Hofmann (1820-1889). (Source: Source: Roman Sandgruber: Dream time for millionaires: The 929 richest Viennese in 1910, e-book 2014).

 

Rudolf Apfelthaller (* in the summer of 1856 in Linz as the son of Theodor Apfelthaller and Theresia, née. quarter)

1868-1871 Linz High School

1871-1874 Intern in the F.&L manufacturing goods store. Hofmann in Linz

1872/73 Linz commercial school

1874-76 Commiss at F. & L. Hofmann in Linz (led by Franz Hofmann); In 1876 the company was called Leopold Hofmann and was based in Vienna

1876-79 at IR No. 14, 16. Company in Linz; 1878 appointed sergeant

1890 authorized representative of the Franz Hofmann company in Linz

1. July 1893: Founding of the "1. Upper Austrian fruit winery Apfelthaller & Co." in Linz, together with Wilhelm Hirsch. They took over the winery from Hermann Hofmann, the son of Franz Hofmann. In 1897 the company was dissolved.

 

Condition: Document folded lengthwise and crosswise; strong paper browned, stained and wrinkled. Please also note the pictures at the end of the item description!

 

Internal note: Apfelthaller