Carolus Magnus Hutschenreuther

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Memorial stone in honor of CM Hutschenreuther on Steinberg

Carolus Magnus Hutschenreuther , also CM Hutschenreuther (* April 9, 1794 ; † November 10, 1845 ) was a German entrepreneur in the porcelain industry and founder of the CM Hutschenreuther porcelain factory in Hohenberg an der Eger .

Life

Born as the 15th child of the porcelain painter and owner of the Wallendorf porcelain manufacturer Johann Heinrich Hutschenreuther in Wallendorf , Thuringia , he earned his living selling porcelain items such as pipe bowls, Turkish beakers and the like. The sales area extended to Eastern Bavaria and the Bohemian baths.

During a visit to his relatives, the chief forester Ernst Ludwig Reuss and his wife Justina, born. Böhner, at Hohenberg Castle he met her daughter Johanna.

As a local forester Reuss was able to show the young Hutschenreuther, who had not only learned the art of porcelain painting from his father, but was also familiar with the composition and production of the “white gold” , the occurrence of this “white earth”. Hutschenreuther secretly carried out experiments with it. The promising result led to the decision to produce porcelain there in Hohenberg. But it was still a long and rocky road to the realization of this plan.

In 1814, chief forester Reuss made rooms available to him in the castle complex, in which he first began to paint white porcelain. Then he met the wealthy landowner Christian Paul Aecker from Seußen . With him as a partner, he wanted to set up a joint porcelain factory . A period followed when there were many administrative and bureaucratic obstacles to be overcome. More than six years passed from the first submission on September 10, 1816 with the "request for a license to set up a porcelain factory in Hohenberg" to its approval on November 7, 1822. A few years later, after Aecker had his own license to operate a porcelain factory in Schirnding , they parted ways again.

During these years he married Johanna Maria Barbara Reuss (December 22nd, 1816) and acquired the land and building of a disused alum plant "on the friendship" in Hohenberg, where the CM Hutschenreuther porcelain factory is still located today. It speaks for the pioneering spirit and entrepreneurial spirit of Hutschenreuther that he was not discouraged by the many rejections of his applications, requests for proof of his qualifications and his financial situation as well as objections from the royal porcelain manufacturer and the local hammer mill owners. With the acquisition of the license, however, the initial difficulties were far from over. It was necessary to build a small kiln with the available resources and to train workers to manufacture it. During this time, Hutschenreuther was probably responsible for mixing the raw materials and supervising the distilling in order to preserve the insider knowledge. The decoration and distribution of the goods was probably also mainly done by himself in this initial period. So it is not surprising that the porcelain production in Hohenberg made little profit in the beginning. Only the construction of another kiln, the construction of a larger pulp mill on the Eger (1841) and the employment of several painters or the sale of white porcelain ware to independent painters finally brought the decisive financial and technical breakthrough.

progeny

Carolus Magnus Hutschenreuther died on November 10, 1845 in Hohenberg. From then on, the continuation of the company was the responsibility of the widow Johanna together with her sons Lorenz and Christian.

The porcelain factory founded in 1822 was converted into a stock corporation in 1904 and survived recessions and the turmoil of two world wars. She attained international recognition and in 1969 to the 1856 by Lorenz Hutschenreuther in Selb established porcelain factory Hutschenreuther Selb AG merged .

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  1. ↑ Hohenberg founding dates  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.porzellan-selb.de  
  2. ↑ Porzellanindustrie Schirnding ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.porzellan-selb.de
  3. ↑ CM Hutschenreuther porcelain factory. In: Handbuch der Deutschen Aktiengesellschaft , 48th edition 1943, Volume 3, pp. 2907–2910.
personal data
SURNAME Hutschenreuther, Carolus Magnus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hutschenreuther, CM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and founder of the porcelain factory CM Hutschenreuther in Hohenberg an der Eger 1814
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1794
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1845