Ernst Hecker (factory)

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Ernst Hecker was a metal and lacquered goods factory in the Saxon city of Aue .

history

The factory was founded in 1886 by the locksmith Ernst Hecker and manufactured metal goods for household use. After Ernst Hecker died in 1914, there was a merger with the Aktien-Gesellschaft Reinstrom & Pilz , which had branches in Schwarzenberg and Bockau . This created a wider range. In 1907, the son-in-law Wilhelm Schreiber took over the production, the company name was now Ernst Hecker. Aktiengesellschaft Metallwarenfabrik Aue / Saxony .

The products have three different logos - the simple letter combination EH in a triangle, the letters E H A framed by a long oval and a stork in a triangle with the letters EH.

In the 1920s the factory employed 600 workers.

In the Nazi period , especially during the Second World War , the factory had modern manufacture products, for example, there is a air raid - medicine cabinet (metal case) (Reference 5-39 / 41).

In 1941, the factory issued aggregate fractional shares (a total of 500,000 RM , the number of shares being unknown) in order to further increase its capital.

In a book ( Dismantling in the Soviet Occupation Zone ) it is stated that dismantling took place in 1945, which means that the Soviet occupying forces confiscated the machines and products as reparations . A later start of production did not take place.

Products (selection)

An advertisement from 1926 (on the cover of the street directory) states precisely that the metal goods were made of copper , brass and tin . Selected products were:

  • Art Déco liqueur service, consisting of a set of 6 liqueur goblets and a tray with hammered decoration .
  • Tea and coffee pots
  • Sugar bowls and milk jugs
  • Watering cans for the home and garden made of enamelled tinplate
  • Fruit presses
  • House pharmacies (see above)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief history of Ernst Hecker and a picture of watering cans made there (enter "Hecker" in the search window). , accessed November 14, 2018.
  2. ^ Letterhead from E. Hecker from 1936 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Cover picture of the Auer street directory from 1926 with drawings of some products on digital.slub-dresden.de, accessed on November 14, 2018.
  4. ↑ Holger Förstemann, Ingo Danielzik: Identification numbers of the Reichsanstalt für Luftschutz 1936-1944 [RL numbers ] BoD, 2018. On www.books.google.de; accessed on November 14, 2018.
  5. ^ Gutowski: Historical securities from Germany 1924–1945 . (Scroll down to Hecker) Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  6. ^ Klaus Neitmann, Jochen Laufer (eds.): Demontagen in the Soviet zone of occupation and in Berlin 1945 to 1948 Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2014; ISBN 978-3-8305-1899-0 . On www.books.google.de; accessed on November 14, 2018.
  7. ^ Offer and illustration of an auction from October 2003 on www.auktion-bergmann.de; accessed on November 14, 2018.
  8. ↑ a b coffee and teapots and a silver-plated tray from an auction from May 2017 on www.auktioart.de Auktionshaus Bossard, Chemnitz; accessed on November 14, 2018.
  9. ^ Catalog of the watering cans by E. Hecker
  10. ^ Advertisement on products from Ernst Hecker AG, 1938 , accessed on November 14, 2018.