Hatschek, Ludwig#

b. Těšetice, Czech Republic (then Tieschetitz), Oct. 9, 1856, d. Linz (Upper Austria), July 15, 1914, inventor and entrepreneur. After his family left the firm Linz Brewery, he bought a factory for asbestos goods in Voecklabruck (Upper Austria) in 1893; in 1900 he succeeded in the invention and factory production of asbestos cement (1901 "Eternit"). His descendants expanded the enterprise and in 1980 it was turned into a limited company ( Eternit-Werke Ludwig Hatschek AG).

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