Ladislav Rott

Ladislav Rott (5 June 1851 – 27 May 1906 in Prague) is one of the sons and eight children of Vincenc Josef Rott, founder of the V. J. Rott company in Prague, Malé náměstí (1840).

Firm business

The brothers Ladislav and Julius Rott (1845–76) took over the family firm in 1872. They began to expand the activities and the company's premises, yet after Julius' early death Ladislav had to continue on his own.

After November 1889 Ladislav's proposal to begin with the planning and construction of Prague Underground, submitted in summer 1898 to the Municipal Council of the Royal Capital City of Prague, was published in the Czech media.

In 1896–97 the firm reconstructed a house at no. 142 at Malé náměstí with frescos designed by Mikoláš Aleš and executed by his collaborators Arnošt Hofbauer and Ladislav Novák.

Personal

With his spouse Karolína, born Klecandová, Ladislav had six children, among them Vladimír Jiří Rott, who – as the last member of this known Prague family active as an entrepreneur in Czechoslovakia – had to flee together with his wife after the communist takeover in February 1948.

The main of the Rott houses, claimed by Vladimir J. Rott (*1950) to have been "robbed" the second time in 1993, currently houses a hotel, before that a crystal and glass store.