Gebr. Winterling
| Porcelain factory Gebrüder Winterling OHG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Open trading company |
| founding | 1906 |
| resolution | 2000 |
| Seat | Röslau , Germany |
| Number of employees | 400 (1930) |
| Branch | porcelain |
Gebrüder Winterling was a German family company and manufacturer of porcelain . It all began with the establishment of the Heinrich Winterling porcelain factory in Marktleuthen in 1903 and the establishment of the "Gebrüder Winterling OHG " in Röslau in 1906.
In 1992 the numerous companies, with the exception of the plant in Marktleuthen, were merged to form a joint stock company , Winterling Porzellan-AG , based in Kirchenlamitz . At that time it was the fourth largest company in the ceramic industry in Germany. In September 1999 bankruptcy had to be filed. The Winterling and Eschenbach brands have belonged to the former subsidiary Triptis ( Eschenbach Porcelain Group ) since 2000 .
history
On October 8, 1906, Heinrich Winterling (1874–1930) and his youngest brother Ferdinand (1885–1967) founded a porcelain factory as a general partnership in Röslau. Little by little, all of the siblings were integrated into the family business, initially the brothers Eduard, Karl and Gustav, and in 1922 the two sisters Anna Jacob and Berta Linhardt.
Before that, the father Georg Adam Winterling (1849–1906) had acquired the porcelain factory Drechsel & Strobel in Marktleuthen in 1903 and entrusted son Heinrich with its management. Heinrich Winterling steered the company's fortunes as general commercial manager, shaped the range of products and controlled sales.
In September 1917 the porcelain factory Oscar Schaller & Co. in Schwarzenbach an der Saale was acquired and continued as Oscar Schaller & Co. Nachf . From this the branched Schaller factories of the Winterling group developed.
In 1919, one year after the end of the war, planning began for porcelain painting in the neighboring Kirchenlamitz. In June 1920, work could begin in this branch. The white goods should come from the nearby sister factories. However, since these were fully utilized, the Kirchenlamitz site was expanded into a full-fledged porcelain factory. Five round furnaces were built by the end of 1921.
In the following years, Winterling Weberei GmbH ventured into the textile industry. In addition, the Lithographische Kunstanstalt in Rehau and a sawmill in Regenstauf are acquired in order to meet the demand for colored printing material and packaging.
In 1929 the takeover of a porcelain factory founded by Eduard Haberländer in 1913 in Windischeschenbach , 50 km south, was subordinated to Oscar Schaller & Co. Nachf . In 1931 a factory with a kaolin pit followed in Lessau / Lesov in Bohemia (to the Kirchenlamitz branch, expropriated in 1945), and in 1938 the Triptis porcelain factory in Thuringia (expropriated 1947).
After the Second World War, the porcelain painting Engen & Winterling existed from 1951 to 1973 Co. in Engen . In 1951/52 another location was opened in Bruchmühlbach , where hard-paste porcelain of the Rheinpfalz brand was created . In 1969/70 production was switched to earthenware ( Winterling Feinkeramik , from the 1980s Pfalzkeramik ).
literature
- Beatrix Münzer-Glas: FoundersFamilies - Family startups. A contribution to the history of the porcelain industry in Northeast Bavaria (publications and catalogs of the German Porcelain Museum 75), Hohenberg an der Eger 2002. ISBN 3-927793-74-4 . Pp. 257-314.
- Ludwig Danckert: Handbuch des Europäische Porzellans , Prestel, Munich 1992. ISBN 3-7913-1173-5 . P. 557.
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Hauser: History of Windischeschenbach. In: City of Windischeschenbach. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .
- ^ CS Marshall: Windischeschenbach. In: PM&M - Porcelain Marks & More. Retrieved April 11, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Eschenbach Porzellan GROUP: General catalog household range 2014. In: issuu.com. P. 50 , accessed on April 11, 2020 .