Carl Poellath coin and minting factory Schrobenhausen

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Poellath
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1778
Seat Schrobenhausen , Bahnhofstrasse 19-23
management Thomas Markus Demel
Branch Service , metal processing
Website www.poellath.de
As of March 29, 2015

The Poellath GmbH & Co. KG formerly Carl Poellath coin and stamping Schrobenhausen GmbH & Co. KG is a coin and mint for the production of coins , medals , plaques and badges . The family company, founded in the 18th century, formerly also simply called Carl Poellath or Kunstgewerbliche Minteanstalt , based in Schrobenhausen , is considered to be a leader in the manufacture of embossed uniform effects , emblems for vehicles and other high-quality badges.

history

Carl Poellath

After the Magistrate Johann Christoph Abraham had founded in 1778 the company, his widow married Ursula to from Landshut originating Nadler champion and namesake of the company, Carl Poellath , (May 13, 1777 - September 12, 1834). The progressive craftsman was the first in Bavaria to construct machines whose striking tools enabled the production of button and hard-barrel goods, such as brass buckles and clasps, using the embossing process. Maximilian I Joseph von Bayern and his wife Queen Karoline honored his achievements for the trade in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1825 by sending them the bronze-alabaster medallion as the first and at the same time the highest award.

After the death of his wife Ursula, Carl Poellath married Josepha , née Geiger from Lauingen , in 1833 , but died shortly afterwards, whereupon Josepha married Josef Hitl in 1834 , who would then run the business for decades.

In the course of industrialization in 1852, the workshop grew into a factory with up to 300 employees. The following managing director Josef Hitl jun. (1836–1901) expanded the range of products to include devotional items and added a special mail order business for religious articles .

Wood engravings from Poellath's workshop can be found in the book published by Jan Nepomucen Łukowski in 1886 (translated, for example, The early life of Jesus Christ and Mary ):

After the proclamation of the German Empire , the company took part in the world exhibition in 1873 and was honored with several awards . A few years later, the company In 1876, a branch in Schwabmünchen , then where more than 100 employees with the Whipping of rosaries were employed.

The relocation of the company headquarters in 1884 from the old town of Schrobenhausen to the location in Bahnhofstrasse, which is still occupied today, proved to be beneficial for the national distribution of the products . In addition, at the turn of the century in the years from 1895 to 1902, the drive of the machines was replaced by the steam engines that had been maintained until then by the introduction of electrical machines. At around the same time, our own electroplating facility was put into operation.

So-called "persons medal " with the portrait of Leonard Körting 1925 for 70-year-old bricklayer anniversary ;
based on a design by the architect and sculptor Werner Hantelmann
The “third side” of the same medal from 1925 with the stamp imprint “C. POELLATH SCHROBENHAUSEN "

It was in particular the activities of Hitler's son Georg Hitl that became important for the company at the beginning of the 20th century in order to revive medal art: In an appeal to German artists in 1903, Hitl asked them to make models of medals available to his mint. Thirteen artists followed this call, including Friedrich Wilhelm Hörnlein and Georg Wrba . In 1906, the minting of commemorative coins as well as club badges and medals was introduced, which, although the Greiner family acquired the property rights to the company in the following year 1907 , then became customers of well-known artists such as Rudolf Bosselt , Max Dasio , Heinrich Kautsch , Hugo Kaufmann and many more of the company, the works produced according to their designs in the Carl Poellath workshops and sold.

After the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1909, during a public ceremony in Munich, emphasized the "unusually systematic promotion of medal art" by Carl Poellath, the world exhibition Brussels International - in 1910 again several awards. In the same year, the company was awarded the title of Royal Bavarian and, under Pope Pius X., that of Papal purveyor to the court .

After the National Socialists seized power , Carl Poellath made the badges and plaques for both the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and for the Winter Olympics of the year in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

After conversion to a GmbH & Co. KG in 1978, by which the company still remained in family ownership, the company was able to extensive modernization - amplified by the turn of the millennium in the - internationally oriented division of Automotive penetrate. For example, in 2009 Carl Poellath became an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for Porsche emblems , in 2012 he coined the “90 Years of BMW” special edition for BMW motorcycles for Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, and Bugatti is also one of his customers. The official championship medals of the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga from 2013 also come from Carl Poellath. But also the pins , buttons , tie clips , cufflinks , belt buckles and even lacquered bottle openers worn on the uniforms of the employees of airlines such as Lufthansa , Condor or German Wings or by club members or fire fighters are part of the product portfolio of the traditional family company.

Proven medalists and other works

Fonts

  • NN : The Karl Poellath company in Schrobenhausen. The memory of more than a hundred years of peaceful work / dedicated to Georg Hitl , (print: Munich: Hamböck), 1917; 73 pages with illustrations on a plate

See also

Web links

Commons : Carl Poellath  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ On its website, the company named Brussels as the location of the 1873 World Exhibition, while the 1873 World Exhibition was held in Vienna that same year .
  2. ↑ Deviating from this, the year 1912 is named for the award of the Royal Bavarian Court Supplier, see the Law and Ordinance Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria , No. 17, Munich, March 27, 1912

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m company history , Carl Poellath Münz- und Mintwerk Schrobenhausen ( Memento from March 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Compare the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ^ NN: The company Karl Poellath in Schrobenhausen ... (see literature)
  4. ↑ a b 200th anniversary of Carl Poellath 1778–1978, Dr. Paul Bruns, Marko Mross, Werner Vitzthum, Schrobenhausen, 1978
  5. ↑ Bngev.de - YEARBOOK FOR NUMISMATICS AND MONEY HISTORY 1987-1988-Volume-XXXVII-XXXVIII - page 150 (PDF, 23.7 MB; accessed on January 3, 2017)
  6. ↑ Compare, for example, the advertising material from Poellath ( Memento from August 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Catalog number: 77.2 - Günter Kloss: Georg Wrba (1872 - 1939). A sculptor between historicism and modernity . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 1998, ISBN 3-932526-20-1 . - Illustration on page 113
  8. ↑ Compare the page Plakette Glafey of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '49.4 "  N , 11 ° 15' 37.9"  E