Despite the fact that the Czech economy had over the past fifteen years, to move to a new track and explore new forms of management, the Czech Republic managed to avoid the economic crisis. One good example is the Czech car factory Skoda. Thanks to fruitful cooperation with the German "Folksfagenom, he managed to gain a foothold on the western car market and gain a foothold there.

Founder of Skoda Plzen factory is the son of a local doctor - Emil Skoda. Although the original owner at that time still a small industrial plant in the city center was Count Wallenstein-Wartenberg. However, it was Emil Skoda has managed to turn this company into one of the largest plants in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and to provide a solid foundation for the economic future of the Czech state. Emil Skoda was born in 1839. His father, Frantisek Skoda has directed its efforts to combat cholera. During the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 he founded a hospital for wounded Austrian soldiers, and later became an adviser on health issues. For special merits in the field of medicine Emperor Franz Joseph awarded him a title of nobility. The emblem depicts Frantisek Skoda serpent of Aesculapius - the symbol of medicine. Famous physician was also the uncle of Emil Skoda, who lived in Vienna and treating not only the Austrian Rothschilds, but also representatives of government dynasties. It is quite possible that my uncle and gave to his nephew, who just turned thirty years, the capital to buy companies-Wallenstein Wartenberg.

Buy factory was only a first step towards the success of a young entrepreneur, an engineer by education , whose views were quite progressive for its time. Significant influence on their formation has not only studies in Germany, but also considerable experience gained them when reading the work of German industrial companies. Some time later, Emil Skoda factory ordered to move from the center to the outskirts of the city in order to gradually expand production. Business boomed, and in the 80 years of the 19 th century factory Skoda has a modern foundry and metalworking industry. Casting and, later, forging for large passenger liners and warships, as well as sugar mills formed the basis of the export factories. Soon there and largest mission abroad. 1876