Ferdinand Selle

Ferdinand Otto Reinhold Selle (born June 28, 1862 in Kunzendorf , Upper Silesia , † February 9, 1915 in Winzerla near Jena ) was a German entrepreneur in the porcelain industry .

Life

Selle came from a family familiar with porcelain production. In 1901 he founded the Porcelain Manufactory Burgau ad Saale Ferdinand Selle in Burgau near Jena . As a member of the Deutscher Werkbund , founded in 1907 , Selle had good contacts to contemporary artists and was able to attract well-known designers for some services , with whom he achieved success in the professional world and at trade fairs: u. a. Henry van de Velde , Albin Müller , Albert Gessner , Franz Seeck , Fia and Rudolf Wille, Else Wenz-Viëtor or Erich Kuithan . Exports to Italy , Scandinavia and the Netherlands are documented.

Ferdinand and Adele Selle's gravesite

After Selle's sudden death, his wife Anna Agnes Adeline Selle née officially took over. Giersch (born January 6, 1867 in Herzberg; † June 19, 1941 in Jena) took over the company. The chief painter and the authorized signatory were responsible for the management . Most likely due to the beginning of the global economic crisis , the company was deleted from the commercial register on December 13, 1929 . In these 14 years only five new developments were produced, in contrast to ten services between 1902 and 1914. In 1929 the Rudolstadt-based manufacturer Albert Stahl & Co. took over the molds and continued to produce them into the 1950s.

The grave of Ferdinand and Adele Selle is in the south cemetery in Leipzig .

literature

• Birgitt Hellmann, Bernd Fritz: Porcelain Manufactory Burgau ad Saale. Ferdinand Selle. Exhibition catalog, Jena 1997, ISBN 3-930128-31-4 .
• Bernd Fritz: The Porcelain Manufactory Burgau a. Saale Ferdinand Selle. A Thuringian company of the workshop movement 1901–1929. unpublished master's thesis, FU Berlin, Berlin 1978.