The Löw-Beer Industrialists

The Löw-Beers ranked among a wide-spread Jewish German family of industrialists who settled in Moravia as early as the 17^th century and contributed significantly to the development of industry in this region from the beginning of the 19^th century up to the breakout of World War II. They had a significant influence on the industrialization of the Czechoslovak Republic between the two World Wars. They owned and operated a range of textile factories, sugar refineries and cement works within the territory of the former  Monarchy and later Czechoslovak Republic. The most well-known were the factories for production of wool fabric in Brno and in nearby Svitávka.