Ignaz Glaser (5 May 1853 – 11 August 1916) was an

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businessman and the founder at Bürmoos near Salzburg of one of the biggest sheet glass factories in the k.u.k. monarchy.

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In 1881 in

Bürmoos Bürmoos is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg in Austria. History Bürmoos was founded in 1967, making it the most recently created municipality in the state, by combining the outskirts of the neighbour ...

near

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, Austria, Glaser used the legal estate of a former

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company that went bankrupt four years earlier and bought a giant moor area. He expanded the factory with four glass ovens, which worked with turf. He also founded a brickyard, which was very successful and which existed throughout the 1970s. Bit by bit he then bought further moor areas in the adjacent Weidmoos and at Ibmer moor, where he also started to cultivate

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. In the middle of the Ibmer area, in Hackenbuch, Upper Austria, he established another glass factory. The turf factory was very unstable because it depended largely on the weather and the turf supplies ran out. Glaser then bought a closed sugar factory in

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n Brüx and established a new glass factory. In that factory ovens were heated with coal from an open pit, which made the company independent from weather conditions. After Glaser’s death on 11 August 1916, his son Dr. Hermann Glaser, born on 18 August 1889, took over the glass factory, which experienced a short economic boom after

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. But the company failed to update to mechanical flat glass manufacture and the Glaser empire broke down in 1926. In Bürmoos, flat glass was produced by a company named Stiassny until the end of 1929, which then bought the holdings. At this point glass manufacture was shut down totally, rendering eighty percent of the lcaal population unemployed. Glaser's grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Aigen, Salzburg. His son survived the

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and died on 10 January 1956 in

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. In 2006 the first Ignaz Glaser Symposium, organized by Andreas Maislinger with a focus on integration took place. The third symposium, on civil courage, was held in 2010.3rd Ignaz-Glaser-Symposion, 9-10 October 2010, organised by Salzburger Bildungswerk, reported in the ''Dorfzeitung Salzburg'', 1 January 2021
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