Melchior Ruoff (photographer)

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Melchior Ruoff (* in the 19th century; † in the 20th century) was a German photographer and publisher of postcards who was active in Heilbronn . His photographs document the state of this city before it was destroyed in World War II .

Life

Melchior Ruoff was still referred to as a photographer in the Heilbronn address book from 1911, from 1912 the postcard manufacturer M. Ruoff was to be found there. His postcards were in circulation earlier, however; Before moving to Heilbronn, the company was apparently based in Böckingen : When the expansion of the Untere Kochertalbahn was current in 1907 , the "Verlag M. Ruoff, Böckingen" published a retouched card with a greeting from Degmarn , on which a train was shown.

The German Digital Library records a Ruoff postcard, which was canceled on March 14, 1910, and describes an early view of the intersection of Sülmerstrasse and Kaiserstrasse in Heilbronn, which is in the holdings of the Otto-Rettenmaier-Haus , as a color photograph . Ruoff cards were apparently in circulation until the 1940s.

The cards published by Ruoff usually bore the imprint “M. Ruoff. Postcard manufacture . Heilbronn "; sometimes the information was also extended. A Käthchen motif card that ran in 1913 is labeled “Original property of the postcard manufacturer M. Ruoff, Heilbronn”, and there are also copies that also contain the publisher's address, Weinsberger Straße 89, which was valid after 1925. There had been a publisher with the name Ruoff in Heilbronn before: The book printer August Ferdinand Ruoff had launched the Neckar-Dampfschiff newspaper in 1842 . However, it is unlikely that there is a direct family connection between these two people, since August Ferdinand Ruoff gave up his Heilbronn citizenship in 1855. Another bearer of the name Ruoff, who was based in Heilbronn, was Julius Ruoff, who also produced postcards.

Web links

Commons : Melchior Ruoff (photographer)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Seitz (Ed.), 100 Years of the Kochertal Railway , in: Oedheimer Hefte No. 7, self-published by Thomas Seitz, Oedheim 2007, p. 29
  2. ^ Greetings from Heilbronn on www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
  3. ↑ A card offered on Ebay, which was only canceled in 1949, still bears approval from the Reich Aviation Ministry with the number E 07968/41. It shows Sülzbach and the Gasthaus zum Ochsen in this place. G. Bauer is stated as the owner, and a four-digit telephone number is also printed on it. See https://www.ebay.de/itm/Raritaet-Foto-AK-1949-Suelzbach-Weinsberg-Gasthaus-zum-Ochsen-mit-Totalansicht-/323683758607 .
  4. ↑ Jutta Assel and Georg Jäger, Heinrich von Kleist. The little girl from Heilbronn. Documentation on www.goethezeitportal.de
  5. ↑ See the information on www.archivportal-d.de .
  6. ↑ See a picture postcard with motifs from Niederhofen, which ran in 1930, at www.mrinfla.com .
  7. ↑ Christhard Schrenk , Hubert Weckbach and Susanne Schlösser , From Helibrunna to Heilbronn. Eine Stadtgeschichte , Stuttgart 1998 (= publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn 36), ISBN 3-8062-1333-X , p. 134 ( digitized version )
  8. ^ Greetings from Heilbronn on www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
personal data
SURNAME Ruoff, Melchior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruoff, M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Photographer and postcard publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century