Friedrich Brettschneider (businessman)
Johann Georg Friedrich Brettschneider (* 18th November 1794 in Hannover ; † 19th October 1856 ) was a German merchant and Royal Hanoverian Hof - Damask - Drell - and linen - producer and trader.
Life
After already in the first decades of the 19th century in the village of Linden near Hanover a manufactory -like damask and ticking weaving mill existed in addition to the linen weaving , the origin of which could no longer be determined, the Hanoverian businessman Friedrich Brettschneider acquired at the beginning of industrialization in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1835 this special Linden weaving mill. In 1842 it was reported that Brettschneider owned a total of 70 looms in the area . Ten of them were set up in the Linden damask and ticking weaving mill, where they were served by eight workers.
Friedrich Brettschneider employed a total of around 100 weavers, most of whom were not paid like workers, but worked independently as master weavers on their own looms. However, they worked in the publishing system , so they were tied to the merchant Friedrich Brettschneider both for the raw material deliveries and for the orders.
The Linden Damask and Drell weaving , which was mainly operated by hand , was a forerunner of the machine-driven mechanical weaving .
Brettschneider was an exhibitor at the First General German Industrial Exhibition in Munich in 1854 , where he was awarded a medal for his products , similar to one of the trade shows of the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover , during which the goods on display were awarded a silver medal.
In the meantime, Brettschneider had been appointed purveyor to the king's court and was subsequently able to offer his royal court damask, ticking and linen factory and action in full-page advertisements, for example in the business gazette of the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover . In the sales rooms at 20 Kniehauerstraße, he was able to offer customers an extensive warehouse of his own factory in damask, jacquard and ticking tablecloths, breakfast, café, tea and dessert serviettes as well as internationally imported fabrics, bed springs and much more.
The gravestone of the Brettschneider family was placed in the Old St. Nikolai Cemetery with the inscription:
“The local citizen and businessman Johann Georg Friedrich Brettschneider, born in Hanover on November 18th, 1794, died on October 19th, 1856, rests here; his wife Friederike Sophie Brettschneider, née Grobe, born in Hanover on November 10th 1798, died [...]; whose child Magdalene Charlotte Elisabeth, born June 14th 1825. "
After the death of Friedrich Brettschneider in 1856, the company “Fried. Brettschneider ”continued to operate. In the 1860s, for example, the parents of the later writer and actor Frank Wedekind bought three of their children pieces of the “Christening Gowns and Children's Suits” that Brettschneider had advertised at Marktstrasse 6 at the time.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Walter Buschmann : Linden. History of an industrial city in the 19th century. (= Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony . Volume 92) Lax, Hildesheim 1981, ISBN 3-7848-3492-2 (revised new edition, Hahn, Hannover 2012, ISBN 978-3-7752-5927-9 , p. 61)
- ↑ a b Hanns Mahrenholtz: The grave inscriptions of the Hanoverian Nikolaifriedhof , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 9 (1956), pp. 1–125; here: p. 24; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ a b c d Compare the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover to the year 1860 , IV .: Allgemeine Geschäftsanzeiger , p. 14; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
- ↑ Frank Wedekind, b. 1864 in Hanover (= Prinzenstrasse. Hannoversche Hefte zur Theatergeschichte ; double booklet 4), 1st edition, publisher: Niedersächsische Staatstheater Hannover GmbH, Brigitta Weber. Edited by Carsten Niemann and Brigitta Weber. With contributions by Rolf Kieser and Karljosef Kreter. Editing and conception: Theater Museum and Archive of the Lower Saxony State Theaters, Hanover: Lower Saxony State Theater, 1995, ISBN 978-3-931266-00-4 and ISBN 3-931266-00-1 , p. 45; limited preview in Google Book search
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brettschneider, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brettschneider, Johann Georg Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant as well as the Royal Hanoverian court damask, drill and linen manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1856 |
| Place of death | Hanover |