Intertecnica

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Intertecnica Export
legal form GmbH
founding 1818
Seat Borsigallee 6, Bonn , Germany
management Bassel Maduar
Branch Service providers u. a. for medals , orders and decorations , as well as export of automobiles , machinery - and airport - Accessories
Website http://www.intertecnica.de/

The INTERTECNICA Export GmbH is an early 19th century under the name of Ferdinand Hoffstätter in Bonn based company for design and minting of medals , orders and decorations , plaques , metal stamps , badges and replicas about museum sculptures . Seat of the GmbH , in addition automobiles whose components , mechanical engineering - and Airport Equipment in the Middle East and to North Africa exported and engineer - Services offering is the Borsigallee 6 in Bonn.

history

The company traces its beginnings back to the furrier son Ferdinand Hoffstätter (* around 1798), who opened a goldsmith's business on Sternstrasse in Bonn in 1818 . The entrepreneur with his factory for medals and decorations based in Beuel was the gold protector during the wedding of his sister Sibilla Francisca Hofstaetter with the gold and silver worker Georg Leonhard Nörpel on April 4, 1833 . The manufacturer himself married Margareta Fuchs , who in addition to a stillbirth on March 12, 1834, also had their son Lorenz Hofstätter jun. who later expanded the production of wedding rings in the family business . Previously, the company's founder was 1856/57 for the production of State -Orden and crafts products the title of a court - Juwelieres been awarded.

In the third generation , Ferdinand Hofstaetter (II) took over the management of the company, which after a stay in the United States from 1879 to 1880 carried out major orders from rifle clubs and carnival medals. Under the new management, the company, the "Juwelier, Gold- u. Silberwaaren-Handlung ”in what was then Sternstrasse 38 was relocated to the (present-day) Limperich district of Bonn at the time of the German Empire in 1906 , from where the great demand for medals and decorations was served, especially during the First World War .

A great-grandson of the company founder, Lorenz Hoffstätter (II) a longtime scout , a trained engraver , member of the Freikorps Oberland and imprisoned several times, came even during the Weimar Republic in 1928 the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in and was still in the seizure of power by the National Socialists as NS district leader of the Siegkreis in Küdinghoven , constituency 20 ( Cologne-Aachen ), member of the then Reichstag . In 1938, the year of the Reichspogromnacht , Lorenz Hoffstätter took over the sole management of the company and from there supplied his party and the Wehrmacht with medals and badges.

After the Second World War , the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) under its federal chairman Adolf von Thadden and the Christian Democratic Union under Kurt Georg Kiesinger were among the clients of Lorenz Hoffstätter's medal factory. This fell into nationwide headlines after 1970 - According to quote an employee of the secret service on behalf of the right-wing Action resistance and thus the NPD - a "defamatory coin" should be shaped in the form of a 2- DM - Kursmünze : you should on the one hand the portrait from Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt and the inscription "Deutsche Inflationsmark", the reverse side of the medal with the inscription "Gesamtdeutsches Blech" the head of the Chairman of the State Council of the GDR , the head of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany , Walter Ulbricht . After these intentions became known, Lorenz Hoffstätter had to " promise not to carry out the coin order and to pay a fine of 10,000 marks if he did not keep his promise " in the office of the Bonn attorney Erich Schumann .

A few years earlier, on October 17, 1968, the company held a celebration to mark the company's 150th anniversary. On this occasion, a commemorative publication was published with images of the most important badges, plaques, medals and orders produced by the company up to that time, to which the Goldschmiede Zeitung also referred in an article.

By the 1980s at the latest, the Bonn company had been converted into a stock corporation, which in 1987 had sales of around DM 4 million . In 2002, the Kunstprägeanstalt, in which artists like Harry Maximilian Buchberger or Karl Menser had their own designs embossed, was taken over by Intertecnica Export GmbH. This produces both in Bonn and abroad, but avoids “cheap goods” and wants to continue the tradition of artistically high-quality embossed products. In addition to countries in Europe, we also deliver overseas, particularly to the USA, Mexico and Brazil.

literature

  • Goldschmiede Zeitung , Edition 12, 1968, p. 1363 (including a portrait of the company founder)
  • Josef Arens: 1818–1968. 150 years of Ferdinand Hoffstätter, Bonn . Anniversary brochure, Bonn 1968

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Wolfgang Scheffler "probably" a son Ferdinand Hofstatter is the Bonner jeweler PJ Hoff rapporteurs , which on 26 April 1830 in Vienna in the pedigree of in Celle goldsmith working Cristof Conrad Siebrecht earned; s. a. ders: Christof Conrad Siebrecht , in: Goldsmiths of Lower Saxony: Dates - Works - Signs. Half vol. 1: Aerzen - ... ; online through google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Compare the Intertecnica website and cross-reference : About us ( Memento from December 11, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Compare Mechanical Engineering / Department Airport Equipment ... ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Wolfgang Scheffler : Ferdinand Hofstaetter , in: Goldsmiths Rhineland-Westphalia. Data; Works; Character , half vol. 1: Aachen - Cologne , de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-003842-0 , p. 100.
  4. ↑ Beueler Industriegeschichte / Everything started with laundry , in: General-Anzeiger from May 12, 2012
  5. ↑ Ferdinand Hoffstätter Bonn in the address book of the city of Bonn from 1902, transcribed by the Verein für Computergenealogie
  6. ^ Intertecnica in the database of the members of the Reichstag
  7. ↑ a b Coins / Action Resistance. Pan- German sheet metal , in: Der Spiegel , issue 43/1970 from October 19, 1970
  8. ↑ Schmaler Grat , in: Der Spiegel , issue 9/1987 of February 23, 1987, pp. 74–76.
  9. ^ A b Benjamin Fritzsch, Lena Bokenhans: Medals from Germany ; in: TuWas-Magazin , ed. vom SuS Phönix Bielefeld 09 eV, June - October 2014 edition, p. 28f.
  10. ↑ Ferdinand Dahl: Catalog for the exhibition Kunstmedals - Medaillenkunst , Part 2 ( The route rider. Ancillary hours dedicated to the pleasure of coins. A coin post from the Numismatic Society of Bonner Münzfreunde eV ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Episode 87). Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2013, pp. 7, 16 (with illustrations); as (PDF document) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ww2.smb.museum

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 56.6 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 25.9 ″  E