Václav Nekvasil

Biography
Václav Nekvasil was an Austrian and Czech construction entrepreneur and politician, a member of the Czech Land Assembly at the end of the 19th century. He studied at a real school and graduated with honors from the Czech Technical University in Prague. He took over a small family business in asphalt cardboard. In 1868, he married advantageously and invested his dowry in the purchase of land in Karlín, which further increased his wealth. He also founded a construction company in Karlín. He met entrepreneur Čeňek Daněk and, under his influence (even after the end of his collaboration with Daněk), initially focused on building industrial facilities (a total of 18 sugar factories and 4 breweries and malt houses), later also on public buildings such as schools (for example, the complex in Prague on Slupi); he also built the Pankrác prison. The company operated not only in Bohemia but also in other countries of Austria-Hungary and in the Balkans. Gradually, it became one of the largest construction companies in Bohemia. Since 1881, Nekvasil was a member of the Prague Chamber of Commerce. By the end of the 1880s, he also became involved in regional politics. In the by-elections in September 1887, he was elected in the commercial and trade chamber constituency (electoral district Prague) to the Czech Land Assembly. He defended his mandate in the regular elections in 1889. Politically, he belonged to the Old Czech Party. He was one of the initiators of the Jubilee Land Exhibition in Prague in 1891. He was awarded the Order of Franz Joseph and the title of Imperial Councilor. His son, Otakar Nekvasil, was also active as a construction entrepreneur and politician.