Fritz Wrede

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Fritz Wrede (actually Johann Heinrich Wrede , born July 7, 1868 in Hanover ; † March 28, 1945 there ) was a German musical instrument and organ builder and inventor . The company he ran was "one of the largest rotating and fair organ workshops in Europe ."

Life

"Wrede sen." Was the owner of Berckhusenstrasse 9 , "Wrede jun." Was a coal dealer there;
Address book of the city of Hanover from 1942
Today's building at Berckhusenstrasse 9 replaces the formerly listed house of the barrel organ builder

Fritz Wrede was born in the (today's) Hanoverian district of Kleefeld , which was only incorporated into the suburb of Hanover in 1859. Fritz Wrede grew up with his step-grandfather Georg Baier , "a barrel organ and orchestrion builder in Hanover", where Wrede also apprenticed.

At the time of the German Empire , Wrede began to set up his own company around 1889, initially together with Bernhard Göppert : The address book of the city of Hanover from 1889 recorded the " Fa. Wrede & Göppert", but Wrede's partner soon left the company . In 1893, when Wrede now ran the business alone, the company was relocated from Scheidestraße 7 to Scheidestraße 20 (today: Berckhusenstraße 9 ).

Thanks to numerous inventions and improvements, Fritz Wrede was able to expand his small business, which was based on manual production until shortly before the end of the Second World War , into one of the largest workshops for rotary and fairground organs in Europe.

The factory was destroyed in the last air raid on Hanover on March 28, 1945 - and Fritz Wrede was also killed on that day. However, the former residential building Wredes at the address Berckhusenstrasse 9 , which was listed at the time, was preserved until at least the mid-1980s .

Preserved organs and orchestrions

Today, Fritz Wede musical instruments can be found in private collections , collections and museums :

  • A list of notes from the previous period from Johann Baier Söhne in a 38 Frati trumpet organ, The Bergisches Drehorgelmuseum (Dr. Ullrich Wimmer Collection), Marienheide ;
  • the so-called "Schneider Concert Organ" (model 36), Schneider family of showmen , Bielefeld ;
  • 69er Wrede organ , "probably one of the first music organs (around 1906)", by Frits de Voer , Apeldoorn ;
  • 69er fair organ in the National Museum (Prague) , in the bellows with the inscription "New leather on March 26, 1924 Willi Waldau Hannover-Kleefeld"
  • Carousel organ with 67 pitches, Black Forest Museum Triberg (Kurt Niemuth Foundation)
  • 33er Harmonipan from the time before the First World War, private property of Roland Wolf

literature

  • Roland Wolf (author), Bernhard Häberle ( editor ): Organ builder Fritz Wrede (1868-1945) in Hanover-Kleefeld and his employees and suppliers. In: The mechanical musical instrument. Journal of the Society for Self-Playing Musical Instruments eV , issue number 105, August 2009, ISSN  0721-6092 , pp. 7–12; downloadable as a PDF document
  • Peter Georg Schuhknecht: Fritz Wrede and the building of barrel organs in Hanover. History of the inventions of Hanoverian entertainment and music machines , Hanover, Friesenstrasse 54: PG Schuhknecht [1981]
  • Helmut Zimmermann : Hanoverian portraits. Pictures of life from seven centuries, illustrated by Rainer Ossi Osswald , Hanover: Harenberg, 1983, pp. 97–101
  • Hugo Thielen : WREDE, (1) Johann Heinrich (called Fritz). In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 395.
  • Hugo Thielen: Wrede, (1) Johann Heinrich (called Fritz). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 685.

Records

  • Peter Georg Schuhknecht: Barrel Organ Festival Hanover ( record ), 33 / min, 30 cm, 1978 (contains 42 Gewecke trumpet organ, 44 Holl trumpet organ, 65 main trombone organ, 38 Bacigalupo trumpet organ, 26 Oehrlein music organ, 38 Bacigalupo Trumpet organ cylinder, 35er Gebr.-Bruder cylinder, 26er Bacigalupo magic flute organ cylinder, 60er Fritz Loos cylinder organ, 26er Frati violin pan cylinder organ, 26er Bacigalupo pan cylinder organ, 25er Wrede double pan cylinder organ, 20er Wrede-Moritaten organ, 35er Gebrüder-Bruder roller organ). DNB 353424099

Web links

Commons : Fritz Wrede  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Hugo Thielen: WREDE, (1) ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Kleefeld. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 350
  4. ↑ Hugo Thielen: Wrede, (1) ... (see literature)
  5. ↑ Gerd Weiß: Bahnanlage (and the illustration of the photograph on the opposite page of the book), in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 2, vol. 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Braunschweig, Wiesbaden: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 78; as well as Kleefeld in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. 4 NDSchG (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Roland Wolf (author), Bernhard Häberle ( editor) : Organ builder Fritz Wrede ... (see literature)
  7. ↑ Nils Benthien (responsible): Photos on the deutsche-volksfeste.de website , last accessed on September 4, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Wrede, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wrede, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German barrel organ and orchestral builder
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1945
Place of death Hanover