Smell brothers

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The company Gebr. Rieche , Hanover , factory of historic tin soldiers was a factory established in the 19th century for historicizing figures made of tin . The company was based on Osterstrasse in Hanover's (present-day) Mitte district .

history

The company was in 1866 through the Zinngießer- champion and entrepreneur Ludwig August smell founded in Hannover, whose works among others in the Historical Museum Hannover find. Until 1903 the company was also known as "August Rieche und Sohn".

From 1903 Rieche's sons Ernst , August and Franz (1880-1939) followed as company owners . Until his death, Franz was a draftsman and engraver of pewter figures for the company, which usually produced in the "North German size". The figures were often based on illustrations or historical paintings . As toys, the figures did not necessarily correspond exactly to the historical models; it was only from 1918 onwards that "more and more emphasis was placed on historically accurate engraving of the figures".

Walter Beißner took over the company during the Weimar Republic . Leopold Rieche (approx. 1903 to June 18, 1963, son of tin caster Heinrich Rieche (1866–1906) and thus grandson of August Ludwig Rieche) was an important painter of tin figures at the time.

At the time of National Socialism , the company " Gebr. Rieche, owner Walter Beissner" had its headquarters in Osterstrasse 54 and 76 in 1935 .

In the 1940s, the traditional family company with its headquarters in Osterstrasse was already run by the third generation as “Gebr. Smell, Hanover, factory of historic tin soldiers ”. The company was destroyed by the air raids on Hanover in World War II.

Brands

Various brands of the company are known, several of them with the stylized coat of arms of the city of Hanover, the three- leaf clover . The company didn't just make pewter figures; the lettering “Gebr. Rieche, Hannover ”can also be found on products from Villeroy & Boch , for example .

Name variants

In addition to the company names given above, others are known, such as Gebr. Rieche Zinnwaren-Fabrik (from 1903); Gebr. Rieche Zinngießerei Gravieranstalt and Gebr. Rieche factory of historical tin figures (from 1929) .

literature

  • Christoph Adler: Brothers Rieche. A North German Zinfiguren Offizin in words and pictures , with numerous color illustrations [online with a preview], Jacobsdorf: Verlag The ford, 1st edition 2005. ISBN 978-3-933416-54-4 ; Book presentation online, last accessed on July 26, 2012
  • Helmut Plath : Department catalog of the Historisches Museum, urban history department , 1970, p. 135
  • Helmut Plath: The tin foundry office of the old city of Hanover 1690–1884 , unprinted typescript in the Hanover Historical Museum, p. 94
  • Alheidis von Rohr : Zinn and Zinnfiguren from Hanover , in the series: Writings of the Historical Museum Hanover , ed. from the Historisches Museum Hannover, Vol. 9, Hannover: Historisches Museum Hannover, 1996, ISBN 3-910073-10-7 , pp. 42–45
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Smell, Ludwig August. 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. 523.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Rieche, Ludwig August (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b see GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b Christoph Adler: Gebrüder Rieche ... (see literature)
  4. ↑ a b c Chris Wheeler: Gebrüder Rieche (owner Walter Beißner) (see web links)

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 12.7 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 22"  E