!!!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).

!Literature
Ooe. Landesarchiv (ed.), Oberoesterreicher, vol. 2, 1982; 
NDB.



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