Friedrich Giem glass and porcelain ware
The company Friedrich Giem Glas- und Porzellanwaren was founded in 1760 by Johann Andreas Giem in Braunschweig and existed for 229 years over seven generations as a family business until it was dissolved in 1989.
history
The glazier Johann Andreas Giem, who comes from what is now Saxony-Anhalt , came to Braunschweig on a wandering trip in 1755 , where he found a job.
On January 17, 1760, he married the daughter of the Braunschweig master glass maker Hardegen and subsequently took over his business on Damm 10/11 in the Braunschweig city center . 1760 is therefore considered to be the year Giem was founded. Giem's son Johann Martin Wilhelm Giem bought the property at Neue Straße 7 in 1792 .
In 1832, Martin Wilhelm's son Friedrich Andreas Giem was awarded the title of court glass by Duke Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , which the family kept for more than a century until 1933. The descendant Wilhelm Giem was one of the founding members of the Central Association of German Glaziers in Hamburg in 1881 . His son and successor Oscar Giem married the Hamburg merchant's daughter Josephine, with whom the porcelain trade was expanded in particular.
One of the company's specialties was the manufacture of individual mirrors ; of the glass surfaces covered with silver, up to 100 square meters were processed each month. Giem supplied and installed numerous large-scale shop windows, had special glass shapes for laboratories on offer and had a glass grinding shop , a glass etching shop and a glass painting shop . In addition to the production of all kinds of glassware, u. a. also with Fürstenberger porcelain .
The front house in the New Road 7 was during the Second World War, when air raid on October 15, 1944 destroyed but rebuilt after the war and in 1948 reopened. The company headquarters stayed there until it closed in 1989.
On October 1, 1985, the Friedrich Giem glass and porcelain house celebrated its 225th anniversary. Business operations ceased in 1989.
literature
- Herbert Giem: Luck + Glass. 250 years of the Giem family from 1760–2010 . Braunschweig 2010.
- Bettina Habermann: Glaser dynasty Giem exists in the seventh generation since 1760. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of November 1st, 2010, p. 17; as a PDF document
- Norman-Mathias Pingel: Giem, Friedrich Glas- u. Porcelain ware. In: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 51 .