General German trade exhibition

Medal for the Berlin trade exhibition of 1844

Back of the 1844 medal, bronze, 43 mm diameter

The General German Trade Exhibition took place in Berlin in 1844 and showed handicraft and industrial products from the states of the German Customs Union .

predecessor

The Berlin industrial exhibition of 1844 was preceded in 1822 by an exhibition in the industrial building in Klosterstrasse with 176 exhibitors, which mainly showed products from the textile industry, and in 1827 an exhibition with 257 exhibitors in eight halls of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences Unter den Linden , which were also mainly goods the textile industry demonstrated.

The exhibition

On August 15, 1844, the Prussian Finance Minister Ernst von Bodelschwingh opened the two-month trade exhibition in the Berlin armory in the presence of the other ministers. The Berlin trade exhibition was a performance exhibition of the German economy with the goods of 3040 craftsmen and manufacturers. Agricultural equipment, textile goods, furniture, porcelain, chemistry, medical technology, blades and knives made of Solingen steel, breech-loading rifles with rifled barrel from Suhl and much more showed the way to the serial production of goods in factories instead of expensive production in craft businesses and factories the advancement in technology became apparent.

685 of the exhibiting companies came from Berlin and showed the city's growing economic power. The Berlin exhibitors were able to win 21 of the 69 gold medals awarded. One of them was the Beuth locomotive from the Berlin company Borsig , which was a special attraction for the 260,000 visitors to the exhibition.

The Alexandria steam boat from the “ Seehandlungs- Maschinen-Bauanstalt und Gießerei” in Moabit could not be viewed far from the armory on the Spree.

Web links

http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Gewerbeaus/gewerbeaus_index.html

Individual evidence

^ Editors Jochen Boberg, Tilman Fichter and Eckhart Gillen: DIE METROPOLE - Industrial Culture in Berlin in the 20th Century , CH Beck, Munich 1986, page 17
^ Die Chronik Berlins , Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1986, page 205
↑ Sigfrid von Weihere: Berlins Weg zur Elektropolis , Stapp Verlag, Berlin / Munich 1974, page 51
↑ Kurt Groggert: Spree trip is necessary! , Haude & Spenersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin without a year, page 37

[1] Editors Jochen Boberg, Tilman Fichter and Eckhart Gillen: DIE METROPOLE - Industrial Culture in Berlin in the 20th Century , CH Beck, Munich 1986, page 17

[2] Die Chronik Berlins , Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1986, page 205

[3] Sigfrid von Weihere: Berlins Weg zur Elektropolis , Stapp Verlag, Berlin / Munich 1974, page 51

[4] Kurt Groggert: Spree trip is necessary! , Haude & Spenersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin without a year, page 37