Strong & Kammerer

Starke & Kammerer is a historical company founded in 1866 that emerged from the mechanical workshop of the Vienna kk polytechnic institute , which later became the Vienna University of Technology , founded in 1818 .

The workshop was set up by the mechanic Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach (?); the management was initially transferred to the mechanic Andreas Jaworsky and in 1824 to the mechanic Christoph Starke, born in 1794 in Mühlhausen ad Unstrut (Thuringia) . His excellent ability in connection with the influence of the institute's teaching staff such as Simon Stampfer on the workshop promoted its development. The workshop initially supplied all angle measuring instruments for the needs of the Austrian cadastre and the kk geographic institute, as well as Reichenbach meridian circles and other astronomical instruments both for the Austrian and for a number of foreign state and private observatories .

Special attention was paid to the construction of new leveling instruments and in 1836 a patent was acquired for the leveling instrument with micrometer according to Stampfer & Starke, which was then and later widely used.

Christoph Starkes' son, Gustav Starke (* 1832), who completed his studies at the kk polytechnic institute, took part in the management of the workshop from 1854 until his father's death in 1865. The construction of astronomical and physical instruments and apparatus, mostly of peculiar construction, also fell into this period.

In 1866 Gustav Starke associated himself with Carl Kammerer to found the Starke & Kammerer company , which continued to run the workshop in the previous locations on its own account and expanded the business significantly. In 1873, the company acquired the entire inventory and moved to new premises. The union of the commercial activities of Carl Kammerer with the excellent work of Gustav Starke resulted in great success.

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Price list for geodetic instruments v. Starke & Kammerer Vienna , 1905 and 1931