Josef Riedel, The Younger		JOSEF RIEDEL, THE YOUNGER(7th Generation) Josef Riedel The Younger (1862-1924) was an outstanding chemist and mechanical engineer, creating a remarkable portfolio of 600 different glass colours. This sophisticated variety of colours set him apart from the competitors and enabled his business to develop further, unaffected by the first Great War. Due to his development of new machinery, he specialised in the mass production of glass beads, which were used for jewellery and in combination with fabrics. In his cutting departments, he refined blanks with overlays of silver, gold, and colour according to the fashion at the time. After 1890 he started to sign them with the Riedel logo, which was brought into use again in 1996. Johann Christoph Riedel (1st) Johann Carl Riedel (2nd) Johann Leopold Riedel (3rd) Anton Leopold Riedel (4th) Franz Xaver Riedel (5th) Josef Riedel, The Elder (6th) Josef Riedel, The Younger (7th) Walter Riedel (8th) Claus Josef Riedel (9th) Georg Josef Riedel (10th) Laetizia Riedel (11th) Maximilian Josef Riedel (11th)