Aleksandar Ehrmann

Aleksandar Ehrmann was known Croatian industrialist, philanthropist and diplomat.

Ehrmann was born in Podbu in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria to a wealthy Jewish family of Ignac and Adela Ehrmann. He had three brothers, Leon, Oskar and Leopold. The whole Ehrmann family was involved in the wood industry. Inspired by family tradition, from early childhood Ehrmann was prepared for the lead positions in the wood industry, so in the period from 1899 until 1908 he worked at a several prestigious wood processing companies. In the 1899 he started working at the sawmill branch of Freundlich brothers from Munich. In 1901 he moved to Vienna and started working at the prestigious flooring factory of Engel brothers. He stayed in Vienna for two years. From 1907 until 1908 he worked for Budapest wood industry Mundus, which was owned by his family, at the plant in Uzhhorod, in the factory Vrata in the Gorski Kotar as the chief of supply, and finally at the furniture factory in Varadin as the chief. In his youth, Ehrmann worked in as many leading wood companies as he could,

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