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1900-1925 he founder Josef Anton Fischer died in 1905. His wife Maria Barbara decided early, that their grandson Bartle should be their successor. He showed a technical talent and interest for the woolen mill as a young boy. Her own son Kaspar wasn´t married and spent more time hunting than working. The years of First World War 1914-1918 were bad because the raw material was very hard to get. After these years the business got better. Now even farmers from southern Germany called "Schwabenland" went to the woollen mill in Bezau. Maria Barbara peddled through Vorarlberg even when she was 80 years old. She was a very unique woman. She started her business career when she was 41 years old, after she had born 13 children (6 of them died very young). Her death finished her career in 1923 with the age of 89. The whole responsibility of the mill was now up to Bartle. In the mid twenties he decided to carry on only the dyeing and spinning department for the production of handknitting yarns, which was about 5.000 kg a year. |
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