Man should work to live, not the other way around
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Ernst Pollmann was born on 10 June 1933 and grew up in Karlstein an der Thaya in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel. His grandfather founded a workshop there in 1888 to manufacture wall clocks and other components. The workshop, which gradually grew, was taken over in 1933 during the world economic crisis by Ernst Pollmann senior, later mayor of the village and a member of the NSDAP during the war. He ran the company until 1962, when he handed it over to his sons Ernst and Herbert. In the 1980s, when the company celebrated its 100th anniversary, they reoriented it towards the production of automotive components. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, however, the company found itself in financial difficulties and therefore created a branch in Czechoslovakia in cooperation with the company Lada from Jindřichův Hradec in order to reduce labour costs. In 1997, the Pollmann brothers passed the company on to the fourth generation: their descendants Marcus and Robert.
