The agrarian share sugar refinery Němčice nad Hanou (1910-1948)

The purpose of my paper was to outline the time of appearance and development of the sugar refinery industry in both central and northern Moravia and Silesia on the basis of the historical and current literature and utilisation of the archive funds of MZA in Bmo. The thesis covers a time period from the first half of 19th century till the year 1948 when the sugar refineries were nationalised. I have divided my paper into several chapters following the establishment of single sugar refineries in Moravia and Silesia. The first half of the paper is focused on the attempts of sugar production from the maple juice or the sugar beat. The sugar production expansion started by the foundation ofthe first sugar refinery in Kostelni Vydfi in the year 1829 and by the continuous sugar production development starting with the aristocratic establishments, the enterprises owned by the wealthy entrepreneurs and following up with the small fanner's stock sugar refineries, whose stockholders were the Czech fanners. The second part of this paper is dedicated to one of the most significant and most modem small farmer's sugar factories in Moravia, which was located in Nemcice nad Hanou. It was the first small fanner's sugar factory with its own refinery for the white sugar production. There is also one chapter clarifying the..