Clemens Müller

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Clemens Müller

Friedrich August Clemens Müller (born July 13, 1828 in Dresden ; † August 16, 1902 there ) was a German entrepreneur . As the founder of the sewing machine factory named after him, he was one of the founders of sewing machine production in Germany.

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Grave of the Clemens Müller family in the old Annenfriedhof in Dresden

Clemens Müller first worked from 1851 to 1854 at Singer & Co. in New York City . After returning to Dresden, on October 1st, 1855, he founded the first German sewing machine factory, the Clemens Müller factory in his name .

On October 1st, 1894, Clemens Müller applied to the Imperial Patent Office for protection of the brand name "Veritas" for sewing machines . The entry was made in the same year under the file number M189.

Clemens Müller died in 1902 in his villa on Holzhofgasse 4 . He left a company with 1,300 workers. His grave is in the Old Annenfriedhof in Dresden (from the main entrance on the right on the cemetery wall). It was renovated in 2004.

The Clemens Müller company

Sewing machine works C. Müller in Dresden
Urania typewriter from Clemens Müller

The Clemens Müller company was founded in Dresden on October 1st, 1855. She initially manufactured various sewing machines. The 100,000th machine left this factory in 1875. This copy is now in the Dresden Technical Collections . A second plant was opened in 1874. In 1881, Clemens Müller was the largest sewing machine company in Europe with 200,000 machines produced by then.

The Clemens Müller company was converted into a GmbH in 1903 and remained in family ownership until 1918. Then it was transferred to Clemens Müller Aktiengesellschaft. The company's social institutions, especially its own health insurance company and the Clemens Müller Foundation for the needy, were way ahead of their time.

In 1909 the production of office typewriters of the "Urania" type began. The "Urania-Vega", which has been in production since 1920, was the first typewriter with longitudinal and transverse adder. Other well-known brands of the company were for sewing machines “Stella” and “Original Saxonia”, as well as for small typewriters “Perkeo” (from 1912), “Piccola” (from 1925) and “Klein-Urania” (from 1935).

After the expropriation in 1945/46, the company was run in 1951 together with the former company Seidel & Naumann as VEB Mechanik Typewriter Works Dresden (SWD), but in 1960 it was spun off again as VEB Steuerungwerk Dresden . Mechanical and electrotechnical devices and components were manufactured here until 1990.

As a result of restructuring, the rights to the sewing machine brand "Veritas" were taken over in 1955 by the VEB sewing machine factory in Wittenberge and after 1990 they finally went to Crown Technics GmbH Heilbronn , a subsidiary of the Bernina sewing machine factory, via the companies Singer and Pfaff in 2002 .

Honors

The former Straße 10 on the site of the former artillery workshops in Dresden's Albertstadt was renamed Clemens-Müller-Straße in 1997 .

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Web links

Commons : Clemens Müller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Clemens Müller AG  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. Entry in the trademark register of the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), file number DD224, query from April 19, 2019 at https://register.dpma.de/ DPMAregister - Official publication and register database
  2. Lars Borrmann: Clemens Müller GmbH in Dresden brings the Urania onto the market . In: International Forum Historische Bürowelt eV (Hrsg.): Historische Bürowelt . No. 82 , 2010, p. 5 .
  3. Reinhold Schubert: Saxon Typewriters - 100 years of typewriter production in Saxony. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .