Industry
by Peter Lang
Translation by Brad Schwebler
The most meaningful
industry in Beschka was Kniesel’s motorized mill which was driven by Sauggas?,
which was already reported to have a daily capacity of 200 double hundred
weight of fruit supplied from the farm. Besides that there were three
round brick ovens which however were not employed with machine power.
The bricks predominantly supplied Belgrade for an ice rink. J. Strecker,
24 Pavelic Street, established a knitting and weaving factory which was sold
after his death in 1928 to Paul Weiß, a Jew who brought the factory into full
swing. Paul Weiß died before World War II. His heir Katona and
his wife were abducted in the war by the Ustaschas in connection with the
Jewish persecution at the time. The fortunes of 121-123 Eisenbahn Street
were seized by the Croatian state and administered by a marine officer.
The Kniesel Brothers and Friedrich Dietrich enriched the
neighborhood community of India with two large businesses. The Kniesel
brothers built a new mill in India about 1935. Friedrich Dietrich
married the daughter of the successful furrier Knebel in India. From
this connection of the competent salesman with the just as competent furrier
existed a meaningful enterprise in which furs and parachutes were produced.
Dietrich had a new factory built in Austria after he fled in which he has 500
employees working today. Austria honored him with the appointment to the
commerce council.