History of the largest textile industry in the Balkans
Hello friends, I want to write to you about the textile industry, the only one in the Balkans, the oldest, which was founded before the First World War. I will write about what it has suffered, otherwise it exists today.
Industrialist Dimitrije Mita Ristic was born in 1860 and died in 1936. He lived and worked in Nis.
In 1896, Mita Ristic founded a cotton processing workshop. When the Balkan Wars broke out, Mita did not want to declare himself a Bulgarian, nor to sign a birthday card to the Bulgarian Emperor Ferdinand I. The factory was robbed, machines were taken away, but after the wars, money from received reparations and money kept.Mita Ristic opens a factory for weaving and printing samija and scarves called "The first royal Serbian privileged factory for the textile industry" Mita Ristic and Sons "", then opens a weaving mill with 200 looms, so he increased the annual He conquered all the technological secrets, very quickly on the market, he received recognition from the producers that the goods were better than the imported ones. He invited the best craftsmen to work for him, who were allowed to determine their own salary.
When he turned 70, he retired from the factory and left it to his sons Dusan, Dragoljub and Aleksandra, occasionally coming with a carriage from his house. The workers deeply respected, appreciated and loved him.
In 1936, Mita died, leaving a will to his sons to run the factory as well as he did.
The youngest son, Aleksandar, who studied chemistry in Switzerland, separated from his brothers, founded a farm for raising high-milk cows from his part of the inheritance, and in 1939 began to produce fabrics in his factory, and finished work with his brothers.
When World War II began, the Germans entered Nis on April 9, 1941, and the Yugoslav army, in complete disarray, demanded work suits so as not to be captured. Dusan Ristic distributed the suits for free. The Germans then put all factories under control, so and their finished goods they had, they took it, signed the raw materials and asked the factory to work. About 400 tons of cotton were found, they had to continue production with only a quarter of cotton with the same number of workers as they were. It was intended for domestic sales, distributed to workers, who sold to buy food. They bribed the Germans to deliver large quantities of goods to partisans and Chetniks. The Gestapo discovered them, replacing many Wehrmacht officers in the city of Nis, but before the end of the war, he arrests Dusan and takes him to Belgrade. Where he lies in solitary confinement, he gets acute arthritis and on bail of 4 million dinars, he is released from captivity.
The Gestapo was looking for Dusan again in two days, but he had already escaped into the woods. Dusan and Dragoljub welcomed the liberation in October 1944 in Jagodina. Soon the new authorities arrested Dusan, but released him because of the protests of his workers, who came from Nis.
Then the brothers left Nis for Belgrade, they never saw their factory and house again. After the Second World War, this factory was nationalized, it was social, then state property with the names "Ratko Pavlovic" and "Niteks".
In the process of privatization of Nitex in 2011, he bought the Italian factory "Benetton".
The body of Mita Ristic rests on a low abandoned family cemetery, above his grave is a famous statue of Prelje, which is a symbol of the textile industry in Nis. It is the work of sculptor Antun Augustincic.
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