The chronicle of Eger Tobacco Factory

The cigar factory

and worked for a time as production manager at the Óbuda factory, from where he was transferred to the factory at Kőbánya to supervise its equipment and fitting up. There he rose to the position of deputy director and

The prettiest factory women in a postal card from around 1928

then director, and finally, at the age of forty-nine, came to direct operations at the Eger plant. The problems of overproduction that were sweeping Europe at the beginning of the twenties made themselves felt in Eger for the first time in 1924. While in 1923 the number of people employed at the factory stood at 739, the following year it had slumped to a mere 364. Redundancies hit the female workers hardest. From 1926 a sudden improvement was discernible, and production rocketed, taking the total number