Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Knauer

Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Knauer (* 11. November 1830 in Hannover , † 3 January 1905 ) was a German goldsmith , Hof - jeweler and entrepreneurs.

Life

family

Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Knauer was born in 1830 as the son of the goldsmith Georg Julius Friedrich Knauer . His grandfather HLZ Knauer also pursued this profession and was a. a. active at the University of Göttingen .

Career

Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Knauer took the citizenship oath in Hanover in 1855 and was awarded the championship title in the same year . Shortly before the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia , he was appointed court goldsmith and jeweler in 1863.

From 1878 on, Knauer can no longer be found in the Hanover address book , an "alleged takeover of the business" by Wilhelm Lameyer has not yet been proven.

Preserved works

Works by Knauer can be found among others

• the Historical Museum Hannover : A silver lid trophy in 1865 for the City Counsel Carl Philipp Ludwig Oeltzen
• and in the churches of Ronnenberg and Schneverdingen .

literature

• Wolfgang Scheffler: Goldsmiths of Lower Saxony: Dates, Works, Signs , Half Volume 2: Hameln - Zellerfeld (with register, plates and maps), Berlin: de Gruyter, 1965, pp. 747–750, 784ff.
• Waldemar R. Röhrbein : KNAUER, (1) Georg Friedrich Wilhelm. 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. 201 and others; online through google books
• Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Knauer, (1) Georg Friedrich Wilhelm. 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. 356.

See also

• List of Hanoverian purveyors to the court

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Waldemar R. Röhrbein: KNAUER, (1) Georg Friedrich Wilhelm (see literature)