Franz Hohmann porcelain factory

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Oberhausener Porzellanfabrik GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1868
resolution 1909
Seat Oberhausen , Düsseldorf , Germany
Number of employees about 350 (1890)
Branch porcelain

The Franz Hohmann Porcelain Factory was a porcelain manufacturing company in Oberhausen .

history

In 1866 the brothers Franz (* 1816 in Düsseldorf ) and Joseph Hohmann (* 1821 in Düsseldorf) bought a factory for refractory bricks ("Eintracht") in Oberhausen . The company started producing porcelain in 1868 as the Oberhausen porcelain factory. In 1883 the Oberhausen porcelain factory, Gebr. Hohmann, employed 240 people. By 1890 there were already 350 workers. In 1893 F. Luckas was managing director and the Oberhausen porcelain factory Franz Hohmann employed 330 workers. In 1900 the goods were sold by the Franz Anton Hohmann porcelain dealer in Düsseldorf's old town , Flinger Strasse 20. In 1906, the company traded as Franz Hohmann Oberhausener Porzellanfabrik GmbH . The factory was a member of the Association of Ceramic Trades and was listed as a member of the Association of German Porcelain Factories (VDP) in 1900 . By resolution of the shareholders' meeting on March 18, 1909, the company was dissolved.

Products

The Franz Hohmann porcelain factory produced white and decorated tableware of all kinds. The goods were sold domestically and overseas, with the exception of North America.

Factory mark

  • Press mark: VDP monogram in a circle with the number 14 underneath (according to the address book of the Keram-Industrie 1910).
  • Blue monogram mark: H with two horizontal connecting lines and a short line underneath, whereby the first vertical line of the H below is longer (FH).

literature

  • Wilhelm Vershofen: Handbook of the Association of German Porcelain Tableware Manufacturers GmbH. P. 13. 1922.
  • Hans Seeling: Düsseldorfer Heimatblätter Das Tor. Issue 6/1972. Düsseldorfer Porzellanfabriken, pp. 270–271
  • Address book of the ceramic industry 1910. p. 81, The consultation room, Müller & Schmidt, Coburg.
  • Address book of the ceramic industry 1893. p. 64, The consultation room, Müller & Schmidt, Coburg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address book of the ceramic industry. Müller, 1906, p. 82.
  2. ↑ Consultation room, Volume 42 Müller, 1909, p. 241.