Bünte & Remmler

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Bünte & Remmler (also abbreviated to BUR) was a German lighting manufacturer .

history

The Westphalian-born Victor Bünte took over the Frankfurt branch of the Wagner & Co petroleum lamp factory based in Berlin in 1875 . Büntes friend and partner Franz Remmler came from Saxony in 1884. Bünte & Remmler started manufacturing petroleum lamps in 1880 .

In 1899 they set up a new factory on a 10,000 square meter plot of land on Lahnstrasse in Frankfurt-Gallus , where they started manufacturing gas lighting . By the First World War , the company had grown into one of the most important lighting manufacturers in Germany. During the war years , the company manufactured artillery fuses .

In the 1920s and 1930s Bünte & Remmler was one of the few manufacturers of handcrafted Bauhaus lights , to which product designers such as Wilhelm Wagenfeld , Wolfgang Tümpel , Ferdinand Kramer and Christian Dell contributed their designs. The metal components were sanded by hand; lampshades were sewn in the umbrella sewing shop ; the brass was polished, nickel-plated and galvanized. The company had its own turning, drilling and milling shop. Up to 1,600 people worked for Bünte & Remmler at weddings.

During the National Socialist era , the company initially benefited from the war production of flak fuses, including with slave labor . The plant was partially destroyed in the Second World War , but was quickly rebuilt. In the 1950s, the product range expanded to include signpost lights for cinemas, restaurants and cafes.

The sons of Bünte and Remmler, for their part, had no sons and sold their company in 1962 to the plastic lamp manufacturer Hoffmeister und Sohn from Lüdenscheid , which ceased lighting production in Frankfurt in 1971. The factory building was retained as Commerzbank's office location .

literature

  • Irmgard Lauer-Seidelmann: Bünte & Remmler lighting factory. Industrial history of Gallus; a company and time history. Lindemann, Offenbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-048178-9 , 122 pp.

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