Continental light

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The full name of the company was Continental - Licht- und Apparatebaugesellschaft mbH Frankfurt a. M.

The company founded in 1908 by Henry Seligmann (born April 23, 1870 in Bingen am Rhein) developed and built acetylene gas generators for welding and lighting purposes, as well as high-intensity lamps in various designs. The company owned over 50 patents at home and abroad. Among other things, she was involved in the joint patents DE 461698 and DE 513988 of the companies Ehrich & Graetz AG, J. Hirschhorn AG, Hugo Schneider AG and Continental Licht.

As part of the " Aryanization " after the seizure of power of the Nazis in 1938 CEO Ernst Seligmann was forced out of the company and Friedrich Hofmann (born June 9, 1895 in Niederwiesa in Chemnitz ) took over the management of the company. In 1942 Continental Licht was banned from producing lamps in order to be able to use the few available resources more efficiently.

Until 1944, the company's headquarters and production facility were Mainzer Landstrasse 193 in Frankfurt am Main . From January 1, 1945, Hammanstrasse 6, Mr. Hofmann's private residence, can be found in the files of the trade register as the company's headquarters. Friedrich Hofmann died on June 4, 1966. The Company was ex officio deleted on 15 August 1969 from the Trade Register.

  • Pictures from collections

  • Lantern 5015A

  • 4615S headlight with transport box

  • Headlight 1015 from the late 1920s

  • Badge on the handwheel - Version: Frankfurt

  • Badge on the handwheel - Version: ZH-Dübendorf

  • The packaging of a Continental mantle

brand names

The Continental - Light and Apparatebaugesellschaft mbH Frankfurt a. M. owned the rights to the following brand names:

  • Mignon (1914 goods: lamps, lanterns and lyre for liquid hydrocarbons as well as carburetors and incandescent bodies.)
  • PALLAS (1917 goods: acetylene developer for central lighting, cutting and welding systems (excluding those such as those used for automobiles or as automobile parts); safety water seals, cleaning compounds, welding torches, nozzles, mouthpieces, cutting torches, nozzles, mouthpieces, combined welding and cutting torches, welding wire, welding rods.)
  • COLAG (1926 goods: lighting apparatus and devices, in particular incandescent gas lamps and lanterns for liquid fuels as well as accessories, gas generating apparatus, in particular acetylene gas generators, welding and cutting apparatus and devices and accessories.)
  • CONTI (1927 goods: acetylene development devices, welding devices and soldering torches, welding and soldering consumables)
  • Pioneer (1928 goods: lamps and lanterns; welding, cutting and soldering apparatus and devices)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Patent and Trademark Office http://depatisnet.dpma.de
  2. ↑ Peter Süß: "Isn't Hitler a great guy?" Graetz, a family and their company from the German Empire to the Federal Republic. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2003, ISBN 3-506-78561-3 .