FSB (manufacturer)

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Franz Schneider Brakel GmbH + Co KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1881
Seat Brakel , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Jochen Bauer
Number of employees 600
Branch Components
Website www.fsb.de
Status: 2018

FSB ( Franz Schneider Brakel GmbH + Co KG ) is a German manufacturer of door and window fittings and barrier-free handle systems based in Brakel in East Westphalia .

history

In 1881, the master belt maker Franz Schneider founded a craft business in Iserlohn , where he first produced historic furniture fittings and devotional items made of brass and sold them to the furniture industry, first alone and then with a growing number of employees .

In 1909 Franz Schneider moved with his family and a dozen employees from Iserlohn to Brakel in East Westphalia , where he had acquired an empty red brick building that had been built at the turn of the century for a steam pig slaughterhouse. The proximity of the Westphalian, Thuringian and Saxon furniture industries was the most important reason for the move. From this point on, the company operated as Westfälisches Metallwerk Franz Schneider & Söhne .

After the death of the company founder, his sons Wilhelm and Franz junior took over the company and expanded the production program with embossed accessories such as ventilation grilles, decorative and protective sheets for doors and bicycle caps made of sheet metal of all materials. In the late 1920s, the brothers separated. The elder moved to Paderborn with his share of capital, machines and personnel and built up a garage door manufacturing facility there. The younger one continued to take care of his father's business in Brakel.

In 1950 Maximilian Schneider, a grandson of the company's founder, and his brother-in-law Fritz Scheffler took over management of the company. The third generation of the company expanded its supplier position for accessories for the furniture industry and began to establish contacts in the market segment of fittings for doors and windows. In addition to the historicizing brass fittings, decorative and handle strips made of aluminum for the kitchen furniture industry were initially used . The development and delivery of ventilation grilles for the window industry was also accompanied by success. It made sense to look at accessories for window handles , embossed plates and rosettes for door handles and to offer the booming hardware store a manageable range of curved door handles.

In 1981, in the course of the 100th anniversary, the managing partners handed over the management of the company to the external managing director Jürgen Werner Braun, whom they commissioned to transform the company into a GmbH & Co. and to continue it together with a young team. The Westphalian metal works Franz Scheider & Sons became the company Franz Schneider Brakel GmbH + Co KG .

In 2002, the family shareholders put the management of the company in the hands of external managers Udo Brechmann and Dieter Holsträter. With the purchase of Sächsische Schlossfabrik GmbH (sold to Schulte-Schlagbaum AG in August 2018) and a range of handles and accessories for barrier-free living (ErgoSystem), new business areas have been opened up since the mid-2000s.

Jochen Bauer has been the managing director since July 2018.

The way to the architecture and design brand

From 1981 to 2001, the fourth generation of the company, headed by Jürgen Werner Braun, concentrated primarily on the design of new equipment details for the architectural elements of doors and windows and developed the abbreviation FSB as a design brand. The most important elements of this further development were the legacy of Johannes Potente, the demanding advice from the designer and co-founder of the Ulm University of Design ( hfg ) Otl Aicher and the market's search for new shapes and materials.

John Potente (1908-1987) was inserted between the two World Wars of Westphalia metal material than steel graveur , chaser formed and tool manufacturer. After his imprisonment, he returned to the company in the 1950s. As head of development, design, toolmaking and industrial training, he became the “soul” of the company. Initially as a hobby and later out of passion, he also designed door handles and window handles for the newly built aluminum foundry. He paved the way for the fourth generation of the company and helped FSB, among other things, to find its way into famous sample collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the New Collection in Munich with his sweeping hand shapes in the style of the 1950s .

Otl Aicher (1922–1991) advised FSB from 1985 to 1991. During a visit to Brakel, he met the retired “anonymous industrial designer” Johannes Potente and spontaneously said that a book should be dedicated to this man. Under the strict guidance of Otl Aicher, FSB defined itself as a manufacturer of artifacts ( grips and handles ), remembered its anonymous industrial designer (Johannes Potente, Design of the 1950s), and dealt critically with internal and externally supported design development (Doorknob workshop in Brakel), described the home of the fourth generation of companies (Annentag in Brakel, a German folk festival) and documented the entrances and exits of this world (entrances, exits). After five years of “apprenticeship”, FSB was allowed to introduce itself to the market in 1990 with a logo designed by Otl Aicher. It shows a stylized handle based on a door handle that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein designed for his sister's house in Vienna, which was built between 1926 and 1928 .

In search of new shapes and materials, FSB initiated a workshop in 1986 in close collaboration with leading architects and designers at the time, including Mario Botta , Peter Eisenman , Arata Isozaki , Hans Hollein , Alessandro Mendini and Dieter Rams . The jointly developed design ideas were implemented using aluminum, brass, stainless steel , wood and plastic . The event went down in German design history as a doorknob workshop and was recognized by the media worldwide.

Based on the Art Nouveau philosophy, which understands a house, including interior fittings and furniture, as a total (work of art) work, FSB relies on stylistic consistency in the implementation of architectural and design basic lines within a building. Door handles and doorknobs are miniature architecture and reflect the design attitude of their designers in terms of form and use. FSB is of the opinion that the decision for a door handle should always be made in the context of the surrounding architecture. The language of the room is compressed in its design. It becomes a harmonious part of the whole - or deliberately accentuates a formal contradiction.

Products

Hardware for doors and windows:

Door handles, object handle programs, rosettes and plates, door knobs as well as button and handle plates, window handles, sliding door fittings, entrance and gym shells, door stoppers, framed door fittings, panic door fittings, glass door fittings, door handles, protective fittings, letter boxes, speech and bell plates, signs with pictograms from Otl Aicher, house digits

Barrier-free ErgoSystem:

An aging society needs solutions that make “spaces per se” easier to handle. With the barrier-free ErgoSystem, FSB produces a system of handles and accessories that facilitate everyday processes, e.g. B. made more comfortable and safer in sanitary and bathing areas.

Communication and advertising

The path from Westfälisches Metallwerk to the FSB brand was sustainably supported with accompanying publications and marketing activities. The book series suggested by Otl Aicher and co-designed by him in the early years - in short: FSB Edition - attracted particular attention . With the Rowohlt pocket book Bienzle und der Klinkenmörder , the crime thriller author Felix Huby ensured that the door handle became known as a murder weapon. Starting in 2002, at the suggestion of FSB, fourteen speeches on architecture were given in collaboration with Dr. Brigitte Labs-Ehlert is embedded in the East Westphalian literature and music festival "Paths through the country". In 2014, on behalf of Rem Koolhaas , FSB curated door handles from 400 years as "elements of architecture" as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale . In 2017, a series of exhibitions initiated by FSB with doorknobs of modernity ended in the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, which was launched in 2009 in Berlin together with Hans Kollhoff in the Red Salon of the Bauakademie by Schinkel as "Understandable Architecture".

In the 16-volume FSB Edition, the history of the artifacts was traced, interpreted and commented on from 1987 to 2000. From 1987 to 1991 Otl Aicher contributed a detailed essay for each volume , which he later included in his own publications. Long before FSB was recognized for its products by the design world, the FSB Edition, which is now only available as an antiquarian, received awards from the Book Art Foundation . The most important statements of the FSB Edition have been summarized in an anthology entitled The Language of Hands .

The so-called “Klinkengeschichten” drew special public attention and media recognition. They consisted of an extensive series of text-heavy advertisements in the magazines of Spiegel , FAZ , Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit . The makers FSB, the advertising agency Kreutz & Partner and the copywriter Reinhard Siemes were named advertising customer team of the year by the Art Directors Club Germany in 1998. A book that was published in several editions was dedicated to the 100 most beautiful clinic stories.

The speech on architecture as part of the literature and music festival "Routes through the country" was designed as a continuation of the company's publishing activities. Each invited speaker from the international architecture scene will be given a book covering the lecture and the work. Since 2003, FSB has been confirming its reputation of being “a publisher with an attached door handle production”.

In 2017, together with filmmaker Peter Schubert, FSB published a digital version of six television films by edition disegno on the history of the Ulm University of Design and its impact in DVD format.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fsb.de: Imprint
  2. ↑ Uwe Pollmeier: vdi-nachrichten.com: Freedom for the engineers
  3. ↑ a b To understand how we think one has to look at our hands. From the company history of FSB. In: Bauwelt , H. 13/2006, p. 26 f.
  4. ^ Robert Kuhn: Catalog. Franz Schneider Brakel, Brakel 1990, p. 1.
  5. ^ A b Franz Schneider Brakel: History of the company ( Memento from June 12, 1998 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ FSB Edition, Volume 1. Gripping and Grips; Otl Aicher, Robert Kuhn; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1987; ISBN 3-88375-061-1
  7. ↑ Architecture to touch exhibition in the German Architecture Museum.
  8. ↑ Ursula Kleefisch-Jobst, Ingeborg Flagge (Ed.): Architecture to touch. FSB grips and handles. (Exhibition catalog), Anabas-Verlag, Darmstadt 2002, ISBN 3-87038-344-5 .
  9. ↑ FSB Edition, Volume 3. Johannes Potente, Brakel · Design of the 50s; Texts: Otl Aicher, Jürgen W. Braun, Siegfried Gronert, Robert Kuhn, Dieter Rams, Rudolf Schönwandt; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1989; ISBN 3-88375-090-5
  10. ↑ a b FSB Edition, Volume 2. Door handles, workshop in Brakel; Texts: Otl Aicher, Jürgen W. Braun, Siegfried Gronert; Photos: Timm Rautert; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1987; ISBN 3-88375-072-7
  11. ↑ FSB Edition, Volume 7. Annentag in Brakel · A German folk festival; Photos: Rudi Meisel, Timm Rautert, Michael Wolf; Report: Bernd Müllender; further contributions: Eugen Drewermann, Herbert Engemann, Peter Maiwald; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1992; ISBN 3-88375-157-X
  12. ↑ FSB Edition, Volume 4. Entrances - Exits; Poems by Peter Maiwald as well as essays by Jürgen W. Braun and Marcel Reich-Ranicki; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1989; ISBN 3-88375-107-3
  13. ↑ FSB Edition, Volume 5. Entrances - Exits; Photos by Timm Rautert and articles by Otl Aicher, Jürgen Becker, Wolfgang Pehnt; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1990; ISBN 3-88375-127-1
  14. ↑ Lorenz Schröter: Tractatus Architectonicus. In: Architectural Digest , H. 3/2004, pp. 90-96 ( online at dreizehn Kulturmagazin , accessed on May 27, 2014).
  15. ^ A b Sonja Klug: Targeted image building through press and public relations - strategy, examples, methods. ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beratergruppe-strateg.de
  16. ↑ otl aicher pictograms. Retrieved April 7, 2017 .
  17. ^ Felix Huby: Bienzle and the latch murderer. (rororo, vol. 22939), Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-499-22939-0 .
  18. ↑ Georgios Simoudis: Storytising. In: Brigitte Gaiser, Richard Linxweiler, Vincent Brucker (eds.): Practice-oriented brand management. New strategies, innovative tools and current case studies. Business publisher Dr. Th. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-409-12516-7 , p. 537 f.
  19. ^ FAZ of February 7, 2014, p. 11, Andreas Platthaus
  20. ↑ FAZ of March 13, 2007, No. 61 / p. T6
  21. ^ Franz Schneider Brakel: Klinken-histories (a selection of four advertisements).
  22. ^ Yearbook of the Art Directors Club Germany. Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 1998; ISBN 3-87439-998-2
  23. ↑ Reinhard Siemes: 100 latch stories. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-88375-350-5 .
  24. ↑ experiment with time fuse, 1979, 43 minutes; Design legend HFG, 198.8 43 minutes; Otl Aicher, the thinker of the object, 1991, 44 minutes; Hand - Griffe, 1992, 43 minutes; Design process ICE, 1995, 44 minutes; The sorcerer's apprentices from Ulm, historical record, 12 minutes
  25. ^ Peter Schubert Film. In: peter-schubert-film.de. Retrieved April 7, 2017 .

literature

  • FSB Edition, Volume 1. Grips and handles ; Otl Aicher, Robert Kuhn; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König , Cologne 1987; ISBN 3-88375-061-1 .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 2. Door handles, workshop in Brakel ; Texts: Otl Aicher, Jürgen W. Braun, Siegfried Gronert; Photos: Timm Rautert; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1987; ISBN 3-88375-072-7
  • FSB Edition, Volume 3. Johannes Potente, Brakel · Design of the 50s ; Texts: Otl Aicher, Jürgen W. Braun, Siegfried Gronert, Robert Kuhn, Dieter Rams, Rudolf Schönwandt; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1989; ISBN 3-88375-090-5 .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 4. Entrances - Exits ; Poems by Peter Maiwald as well as essays by Jürgen W. Braun and Marcel Reich-Ranicki; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1989; ISBN 3-88375-107-3 .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 5. Entrances - Exits ; Photos by Timm Rautert and articles by Otl Aicher, Jürgen Becker, Wolfgang Pehnt; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1990; ISBN 3-88375-127-1 .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 6. Modern door handles · A design story by Siegfried Gronert ; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1991; ISBN 3-88375-136-7 .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 7. Annentag in Brakel · A German folk festival ; Photos: Rudi Meisel, Timm Rautert, Michael Wolf; Report: Bernd Müllender; further contributions: Eugen Drewermann, Herbert Engemann, Peter Maiwald; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1992; ISBN 3-88375-157-X .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 8. Assault; Realization: Students of the HfG Karlsruhe under the direction of Gunter Rambow ; Texts: Peter Sloterdijk , Heinrich Klotz , Jürgen W. Braun; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1993; ISBN 3-88375-179-0 .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 9. The Door Handle Chaos · The Doorhandle Disaster · Le chaos de la poignée de porte ; Story and pictures by Klaus Imbeck; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1994; ISBN 3-88375-196-0 .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 10. Visual Communication · Modules, Realizations ; Texts: Otl Aicher , Sepp Landsbek, Jürgen W. Braun, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1995; ISBN 3-88375-197-9 .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 11. Hand and Handle · Exhibition Vienna 1951 · Walter Zeischegg , Carl Auböck · A book about handle pioneers by Andrea Scholtz ; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1995; ISBN 3-88375-217-7 .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 12. Gestures · A book project by photography students at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art under the direction of Timm Rautert ; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1996; ISBN 3-88375-231-2 .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 13. The Myth of Functionalism ; Texts: Bernhard E. Bürdek , Reinhard Kiehl, Florian P. Fischer, Jürgen W. Braun; Drawings: Reinfriede Bettrich, Hans Hollein; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1997; ISBN 3-88375-270-3 .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 14. The virtual house · Documentation of a workshop with Peter Eisenman , Jacques Herzog , Toyo Ito , Daniel Libeskind , Jean Nouvel and others ; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1998; ISBN 3-88375-308-4 .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 15. Left - Right · A book about handedness by Andrea Scholtz ; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1999; ISBN 3-88375-325-4 .
  • FSB Edition, Volume 16. Le Corbusier's hands · Les Mains de Le Corbusier · Collection of essays by André Wogenscky ; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2000; ISBN 3-88375-326-2 .
  • The language of the hands. A reading and flipping book with the best articles from the FSB Edition ; compiled and commented by Jürgen W. Braun; published by FSB at Verlag Hermann-Schmidt, Mainz 2005; ISBN 3-87439-695-9 .
  • Peter Zumthor : Edition “Paths to Architecture”, Volume 1. Atmospheres ; 2004 published by FSB.
  • Mario Botta : Edition “Paths to Architecture”, Volume 2. Architecture and Memory ; 2005 published by FSB.
  • Oliver Kruse: Edition “Paths to Architecture”, Volume 3. Rotunda in Hombroich ; 2006 published by FSB.
  • Robert Wilson : Edition "Paths to Architecture", Volume 4. Structure and Creativity ; 2007 published by FSB.
  • Moshe Safdie : Edition “Paths to Architecture”, Volume 5. Megascale, Order and Complexity ; 2008 published by FSB.
  • Sanaa , Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa: Edition “Paths to Architecture”, Volume 6. Game of Opposites ; 2009 published by FSB.
  • Bettina Rudhof: Edition “Paths to Architecture”, Volume 7. Building like a dream. Artist houses from Junker to Domenig ; 2010 published by FSB.
  • Eduardo Souto de Moura : Edition “Paths to Architecture”, Volume 8. A house needs a center ; 2013 published by FSB.
  • Rafael Moneo : Edition “Paths to Architecture”, Volume 9. From Design to Building ; 2014 published by FSB.
  • Sami Rintala / Dagur Eggertsson: Edition “Paths to Architecture”, Volume 10. The house is an instrument ; 2015 published by FSB.
  • David Adjaye: Edition "Paths to Architecture", Volume 11. Geographies . Issued by FSB in 2016.
  • 100 latch stories . Concept: Kreutz & Partner, Düsseldorf; Text: Reinhard Siemes , Munich; Production: Druckhaus Haberbeck, Lage; 1st edition April 1999; ISBN 3-88375-350-5 .
  • 125 years of FSB. In: Bauwelt , ISSN  0005-6855 , H. 13/2006, pp. 11–33.

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