Friedlander Family Collection
- Reference:GB 1220 FFC
- Dates of Creation:1861 - 2019
- Language of Material:English German Czech
- Physical Description:2 boxes
Scope and Content
The Friedlander Family Collection (FFC) relates to their textile factories in Vienna and Glasgow, and comprises around 100 documents and over 65 photographs, as well as textile samples, such as printed scarves.
Note that the current catalogue is a box listing only, and related items may be separated.
Administrative / Biographical History
Moritz and Fanni Friedlander (nee Uberreich; from Slovakia and Moravia) set up a textile firm in Vienna in 1889, which bought raw material and had it printed and dyed and made into scarves etc. In 1938, the family fled Austria in the wake of the Anschluss and were offered refuge here in Scotland where they re-established their business in Hillington, Glasgow. Moritz and Fanni had 5 children: Philip, Lisl, Olga, Walter and Robert. In Hillington, Friedlanders employed over 200 people, mostly women and including some refugees, such as Hilda Goldwag, who became head of design after the war (see Hilda Goldwag Collection). They made scarves for Marks & Spencer from late 1940s to mid 1950s? and mohair stoles in the late 1950s/early 1960s.
Robert Friedlander married Eva Susanne Adler, whose family came from Prague. Eva's parents were Leopold Adler (1 October 1881 - 13 February 1943) and Margit Adler (nee Gottlieb). Leopold was Honorary Danish Consul General in Prague at the outbreak of the second world war, and was killed in the Holocaust. Leopold was the son of Emanuel Adler and Friederike Adler (nee Pan).
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