Bruno Uhl

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Bruno Uhl (born November 12, 1895 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 22, 1990 ) was a German businessman. He was the director of the Agfa photo factory in Leverkusen , honorary chairman of the Association of the German Photographic Industry , honorary president of the German Society for Photography and co-founder of the Photokina .

Life

Bruno Uhl grew up in Rothenfels am Main. He completed an apprenticeship in a drugstore and worked for a photo shop. From 1921 Bruno Uhl worked in retail at Bayer and Agfa.

His actual career began when he rose to the management level of Bayer after his time in the photography department of Bayer AG in Leverkusen. He succeeded in increasing the annual production from 3,700 to 6,500 cameras, which was mainly due to increased exports. In 1921 Bayer bought 80 percent of the company shares of the camera designer and photo entrepreneur Alexander Heinrich Rietzschel with half the voting rights. The remaining shares went to Bayer in 1924, which Uhl appointed director of their Munich "Camera-Werke". In December 1925, as part of the creation of IG Farben AG, Bayer's photo division was assigned to Agfa. After 1931, Uhl became director of Agfa in Berlin and thus held one of the top positions in the German economy.

After the war he moved from East Berlin to Leverkusen in 1945, where he acted as managing director of the company and played a key role in its reconstruction. There he remained until his retirement in 1956 as a member of the Management Board of Agfa AG in Leverkusen. Bruno Uhl had been a member of the main committee since 1967, and in 1969 he was elected to the executive committee. Since the 1950s he lived in Bad Kissingen .

During his lifetime, Bruno Uhl received numerous honors and prizes. Among other things, he received the David Octavius ​​Hill Medal in 1955 and the Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography in 1968 .

Bruno Uhl died on July 22, 1990 at the age of 94. He was buried in Rothenfels in 1995.

The Photokina

The first show of the Society of German Photographers after the war took place in Cologne University in 1949. At the same time, the decision was made to organize a photo cinema exhibition in Cologne. Bruno Uhl approached the advertising specialist and publicist Leo Fritz Gruber in 1948 with the plan for an independent photo fair for Cologne. Gruber had international contacts to photographers, agencies and institutions and used the opportunity to bring his ideas for a high-profile trade fair into the first trade fair project. Together with Hans Roggendorf, he designed the signet and the introductory show for the photo cinema exhibition, which must be regarded as the forerunner of the photokina, which has been taking place regularly since 1951. In 1950 it was not possible to organize an international fair because of the limited space. For the same reason, only companies from the Trizone and companies from the western sectors of Berlin were admitted to the photo fair. The second photo fair in 1951 was international and was called Photokina .

Since 1950 there has been a trade fair exclusively for photography, the photokina world of imaging .

Legacies and Afterlife

  • Dr. Bruno Uhl Library
In 1979, the Bruno Uhl Library was incorporated into the Art and Museum Library of the City of Cologne by the German Society for Photography.
  • Dr. Bruno Uhl Prize
  • Dr. Bruno Uhl Medal
  • Dr. Bruno Uhl Competition
In November, the first hiking maps from the Dr. Bruno Uhl hiking map competition shown in the Amerikahaus in Hamburg. The announced early association day is convened in Mülheim / Ruhr (1959–1968, city of Uhl decisions) and the associated opening of the exhibition "Photos from the Dr.-Bruno-Uhl-VDAV-Wanderpreis". The association's first golden plaque was given to the sponsor and benefactor as well as an honorary member of the VDAV, Dr. hc Bruno Uhl awarded. The plaque is a foundation of the AGFA and goes back to a suggestion by Leo Fritz Gruber . The artistic design was carried out by Werner Labbe from Cologne . Prize in the Dr. Bruno Uhl competition (invitation to tender at the Kölner Werkschulen) with a swapped piece of work in 1970. Bruno Uhl in: "Jewelry: Finger Rings", by Anna Beatriz Chadour, Rüdiger Joppien, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln - 1985

Exhibitions

  • 1970: Bruno Uhl photo exhibition for his 75th birthday. Museum Ludwig, Cologne 1970
  • 2006: Photokina - The Early Years 1950 - 1956

Awards

  • 1954: Large Federal Cross of Merit
  • 1955: Awarded the David Octavius ​​Hill Medal to Dr. hc Bruno Uhl
  • 1969: Large Federal Cross of Merit with a star for Dr. Bruno Uhl
  • Culture Prize 1968 to Dr. hc Bruno Uhl from the German Society for Photography
  • Honorary Chairman of the Association of the German Photographic Industry
  • Honorary President of the German Society for Photography
  • Honorary member of the German Society for Documentation
  • Honorary citizen of the city of Rothenfels
  • Honorary doctorate Dr. hc (Dr. honoris causa)

Books

  • 1927: Toten-Gedenkbuch: Dedicated to the memory of the comrades of the Kgl who stayed on the whale sites of the World War 1914–1918. Prussian Hohenzollernschen Fußart.-Rgter No. 13 and 24 and the Kgl. Württ. Fußart.-Rgts No. 13 and their war formations / Uhl. Edited on behalf of the Officers' Association with the participation of the traditional battery of the Reichsheeres , ed. Bruno Uhl; Friedrich Gerok, Hardt Verlag, Stuttgart 1927, 76 pages
  • 1970: Memories, Bruno Uhl - private print for my 75th birthday on November 12th , ed. Bruno Uhl, Bad Kissingen 1970, 368 pages

literature

  • Bruno Uhl in: “Photographische Korrespondenz: Journal for Scientific and Applied Photography and the Entire Reproduction Technology”, Volumes 90–91, Photographische Gesellschaft in Wien, 1954
  • Bruno Uhl in: “Photographische Korrespondenz: Journal for Scientific and Applied Photography and the Entire Reproduction Technology”, Volume 99, Photographische Gesellschaft in Wien, 1963
  • Bruno Uhl in: “End and Beginning: Photographers in Germany around 1945”, by Klaus Honnef, Ursula Breymayer, German Historical Museum, 1995, 224 pages
  • Bruno Uhl in: Bruno Uhl Library in the Museum of Applied Art, Cologne p. 202 Life Magazine © Time Inc., New York p. 209 Lee Miller Archives, Chiddingly / East Sussex p. 213

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photographic correspondence: Journal for scientific and applied photography and all reproduction technology . 1968 ( google.de [accessed June 27, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Camera . CJ Bucher, 1956 ( google.de [accessed June 27, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Anaïs Feyeux: De l'empire au marché. Agfa et la reconstruction du monde photographique en Allemagne après 1945 . In: Études photographiques . No. 24 , November 9, 2009, ISSN  1270-9050 , p. 72-105 ( openedition.org [accessed June 27, 2019]).
  4. ↑ The print mirror . 1975 ( google.de [accessed June 27, 2019]).
  5. ^ Chemical industry: Journal for the German chemical industry . 1975 ( google.de [accessed June 27, 2019]).
  6. ^ Bruno Uhl in: "Museum Ludwig - Collection: Photographic Collections: History - The History of the Photographic Collections from 1947 to Today" - Museum Ludwig 2012
  7. ↑ Bruno Uhl in: Photo Industry Association
  8. ^ Frank Heidtmann, Paul Stanley Ulrich: How do I find literature on film and theater studies . Berlin-Verlag A. Spitz, 1988, ISBN 978-3-87061-331-0 ( google.de [accessed June 27, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Direct Marketing . 1986 ( google.de [accessed June 27, 2019]).
  10. ↑ dvf-berlin.de. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  11. ^ Artis . Neinhaus-Verlag, 1983 ( google.de [accessed June 27, 2019]).
  12. ↑ 1955 winner of the David Octavius ​​Hill Medal Dr. hc Bruno Uhl ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsche-fotografische-akademie.com
  13. ↑ Photographic correspondence: Journal for scientific and applied photography and all reproduction technology . 1954 ( google.de [accessed June 27, 2019]).
  14. ↑ Print-Print . P. Keppler., 1969 ( google.de [accessed June 27, 2019]).
  15. ↑ Photographic correspondence: Journal for scientific and applied photography and all reproduction technology . 1968 ( google.de [accessed June 27, 2019]).
  16. ↑ Photographic correspondence: Journal for scientific and applied photography and all reproduction technology . 1963 ( google.de [accessed June 27, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Uhl, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1990