Danckwerth & Son

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Danckwerth & Son , actually C. Danckwerth & Sohn called firmierte a courtyard - watchmakers in the 19th century in Hannover .

history

In the early phase of industrialization in the Kingdom of Hanover , the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover for the year 1850 recorded the watchmaker Christian Danckwerth, who was based at “ Ernst-Auguststr. 1". The same address book of the royal seat recorded only one other bearer of the name Danckwerth at the time, namely Dorothea, widow of the tax collector, resident at Warmbüchenstrasse 9 .

In the following year, 1851, the watchmaker relocated to 10 Burgstrasse . After Ludwig Danckwerth had already attended the Polytechnic School in Hanover from 1849 to 1852 before he went to the Georg-August University of Göttingen as a student of mathematics and natural sciences , the "watchmaker assistant" Adolf Danckwerth attended the Hanover School from 1852 to 1853 Educational institution before he went to Braunschweig.

Soon afterwards, in early December 1853 , the Friedenszeitung published in Vienna reported a lecture given by Professor Moritz Rühlmann to the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover . According to this, Danckwerth had constructed a pedometer or step counter to be carried upright in the vest pocket , with which several officers of the Royal General Staff made experiments. These had given "extremely satisfactory results", so that a general introduction to "Danckwerth's Petometers" was expected. Danckwerth recorded the address book for the following year 1854 for the first time as a court watchmaker.

Also in 1854, C. Danckwerth & Sohn took part in the First General German Industrial Exhibition in Munich and received an honorable mention for the pedometer shown there by the assessment committee “because of its functional design and beautiful work.” In addition to participant number 2803 for C Danckwerth & Sohn, who exhibited two pedometers and two electric induction machines, showed the Hanoverian watchmaker Louis Danckwerth with the immediately following participant number 2804 an “ electro-magnetic driving machine ”. The military doctor Hermann Klencke had already written in Leipzig in 1853 about the "patented electro-electric induction machine", as referred to by "Danckwerth & Sohn", the physiological and therapeutic effects of the machine and its application in practical medicine. with a picture of the apparatus ”.

From 1855 to 1856, Christian Danckwerth moved his headquarters to the house at Leinstrasse 22. According to the court and state manual for the Kingdom of Hanover , he shared the title of court watchmaker for the year 1857 with “W. Bofenschen ”, the widow Kloberg and“ FC Dehnhard ”.

In 1862 he ran his business at Georgstrasse 17, while privately he had set up in Sophienstrasse 4 on the third floor. In 1866 he was renamed as court watch and chronometer maker in Georgstraße 18. That same year, now also offered the DA Danckwerth Fournituren - and watches plot Wholesale its product portfolio in the Bahnhofstrasse 14 in. Half a century later, at the time of the German Empire and in the middle of World War I, Lieutenant and Battalion Leader Danckwerth, son of the owner of the Hanover-based watch wholesaler Dietrich Danckwerth, was awarded the Iron Cross First Class , according to the Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung .

literature

  • Philipp Friedrich Hermann Klencke: The patented electro-electric induction machine from Danckwerth & Sohn in Hanover, its physiological and therapeutic effects, as well as its useful application in practical medicine. Based on own experiments and the comparative results of doctors who experimented with them , Leipzig: Verlag von Christian Ernst Kollmann, 1853; Digitized via Google books

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Philipp Friedrich Hermann Klencke: The patented electro-electric induction machine ... 1853; Digitized via Google books
  2. ↑ a b Friedrich Benedikt Wilhelm von Hermann (Ed.): Maßststabs , in ders .: Report of the Assessment Commission at the general German industrial exhibition in Munich in 1854 . Munich: Verlag von Georg Franz, 1855, p. 50; Digitized via Google books
  3. ^ Address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover for the year 1850, section 1: Address and housing gazette , 4: Alphabetical directory of residents , p. 77; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  4. ^ Address book ... 1851 , p. 77
  5. ^ Karl Karmarsch : The higher trade school in Hanover. Explanations about the purpose, arrangement and use of the same , 2nd, very expanded edition under the title Die polytechnische Schule zu Hannover. With three sheets of pictures of the institution's building . Verlag der Hahn'schen Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1856, p. 239f .; Digitized via Google books
  6. ↑ o. V .: Miscellaneous , in: Friedenszeitung , number 288 of December 2, 1853, volume 5, p. 1152; Digitized via Google books
  7. ↑ Compare the address book ... 1853, p. 84 with the address book ... 1854 , p. 92
  8. ^ A b Catalog of the General German Industrial Exhibition in Munich in 1854 , p. 92; Digitized via Google books
  9. ^ Neue Münchener Zeitung , issue number 114 of May 13, 1854, [Volume 1], p. 1183; Digitized via Google books
  10. ↑ Compare the address book ... 1855 with the address book 1856
  11. ↑ Hof- und Staatshandbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1857, p. 13; Digitized via Google books
  12. ↑ Address book ... 1862
  13. ↑ Address book ... 1866
  14. ↑ Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung , Volume 40 (1916), p. 14