New German biographical information to extract Rachman glass manufacturers rest of hinge excerpt from New German Biography, Volume 21 (2003), p. 78
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Rachman, glass manufacturers. (Catholic)
1876, Wilhelm (1846-1916) with his brother Henry in Langenau (Bohemia), the company "brothers Rachman for Glasraffinierung and trading, in 1884 after Haida, the center of the Bohemian. Glass trade was routed. In the same year The brothers established a sales office in Berlin and operated in the (later moved to Haida) fabrication of metal products, which were used to assemble the glass articles, particularly for craft products of Art Nouveau. This specialty was the first company in the ger-Austrian. Room and had introduced technical and stylistic model for other glass companies, including the most successful companies in this field "grew more in Klostermühle (Bohemian Forest). The production program included perfume and toilet sets in polished, engraved, painted with red, yellow and Schwarzätze refined form, came to Articles made of crystal and colored glass, which were partly in the many home workshops of the Haida-Stein Schönau glass area refined. The company had sales offices in Vienna for sales in Austria and the Balkans, Berlin and Leipzig for Central and Western Europe in Paris. After the founders took the sons William (1882-1943) and Bruno (1885-1938) and the company expanded its production through the purchase of houses and Raffinierungsbetrieben. 1932, a division of: Wilhelm kept the metal works, which developed into a major industrial company and have been since 1945 of the "corporation formerly Škodawerke in Pilsen" is accepted while Bruno the glass production program continues to lead and set up in 1936 a separate metal processing plant mounted glassware. After his death led to a widow in 1945, the heirs and their four daughters operation. The products, which until the beginning of the 2nd World War II, the high quality of thought, were on glass specialist and world exhibitions awarded many times (London, 1891, Chicago, 1893, Antwerp, 1894, Atlanta 1895, Nashville 1897, Paris 1900, Glasgow 1901, Bologna, 1902, 1904, Portland, 1905, Brussels 1910 Vienna in 1897 and 1910, Dresden 1911). After the 2nd World War II was expropriated without compensation the company, sold the owner family.
Sources: L J. Sieber, Gesch. d. City Haida, 1913, especially p. 157; Höltl G. (ed.), The böhm. . Glass 1700-1950, VI, nd, p. 78, 90 f.; ÖBL; Biogr Lex Bohemia. Kurt Pittrof
