The Reichs-German citizen JUDr. Albrecht Miesbach was a footwear expert, especially in the footwear trade. A lawyer by training (Würzburg 1921) and an employee of the Augsburg shoe company Berneis-Wessels (August Wessels, Augsburg, since 1931), he came into personal contact with Bata as early as 1921. Ten years later he made his first official contact with the company on behalf of Wessels, where Jan Antonin Bata was also employed just before World War I. In 1936, Miesbach, as manager and director of Wessels, personally visited Bata's plants in Zlín. However, when he enlisted on the Western Front as an air force officer at the outbreak of the Second World War, he could hardly have guessed that the Bata concern would choose him, on the basis of mutual superior ties, to be the German operations director and military industrial manager of Bata, a. s., Zlín. He was appointed Supervising German Director of Bata's plants as an expert and advisor to the NSDAP's Office for Shoe and Leather Economy. In the position of the appointed German administrator of the company, he replaced the dreaded Nazi Bernhuber, who advocated the relocation of Zlín production, including the employees, to the Reich. On Tuesday, 6 August 1940, Miesbach was introduced to the employees of the Bata works in Zlín by the director Hugo Vavrečka in a radio broadcast. With Miesbach's help, the company and its employees were saved from the worst repression by the occupation administration. In many cases he took the side of the Czech employees and saved Zlín from the declaration of martial law in the autumn of 1941. When the Slovak National Uprising broke out, Miesbach, who played both sides, supported the rebel forces with concern funds. At the end of the war, he attempted to outline in sixty pages the organisational principles on which the Bata factories were built, which he had written about in the German trade press as early as the mid-1930s. The Miesbach family left Zlín as early as March 1945, and Miesbach followed them to Augsburg in early May. In 1946 he voluntarily stood before the extraordinary people's court in Uherské Hradiště, which found him not guilty. After his return to Germany, Miesbach again worked for Wessels. He died at the age of 80 in his native Germany. Miesbach's daughter Irma (b. 1923) was also employed by the Bata concern between 1943 and 1945 and found employment among the staff of the Bata School of Art. Miesbach's secretary was another relative, her sister-in-law Gerstner.