Georg Julius Friedrich Knauer

Georg Friedrich Julius Knauer (* 5. June 1790 in Göttingen ; † 29. September 1855 in Hannover ) was a German goldsmith , Hof - jeweler , manufacturer and local politicians .

Life

family

Georg Julius Friedrich Knauer's father was Heinrich Ludwig Zacharias Knauer ; who worked as a goldsmith at the University of Göttingen . His son Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Knauer (1830–1905) later followed him into the profession.

Career

Georg Julius Friedrich Knauer took his citizenship oath as a jeweler in Hanover in 1816 and received the master's title there in the same year . In 1832 he was elected head of the goldsmith's office and held this position until 1848. From 1833 Knauer had the title of court jeweler, and from 1835 onwards he was named in the Hanover address books

“Jeweler, Hof-Gold- u. Silver workers u. District chief . "

With his "Associé" Wilhelm Lameyer , Knauer made the insignia of the Hanoverian crown between 1839 and 1844 (see Crown of the Kingdom of Hanover ).

The East Frisian landscape gave in 1843 to the then Crown Prince and later King George V for marriage a large silver centerpiece , the " Upstalsboom " (a feudal knights between trees) from the workshop of Knauer and Lameyer.

In 1845 his company Knauer & Comp. , which employed 12 people, was added to the list of manufacturers in the Kingdom of Hanover . In the same year, however, Knauer became the sole owner of the company, as Lameyer opened his own office building.

Centerpiece in the Lüneburg Museum

Preserved works

Works by Knauer can be found among others

in the Historical Museum Hanover
and in the churches of Ronnenberg and Kirchrode .
1843: Centerpiece “Upstalsboom”, last at Marienburg Castle in the possession of Ernst August von Hannover
1843: Centerpiece in the Lüneburg Museum . Gift of the Lüneburg knighthood to Crown Prince Georg of Hanover .

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, (2) Georg Julius Friedrich. 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, (2) Georg Julius Friedrich. 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.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Waldemar R. Röhrbein: KNAUER, (2) Georg Julius Friedrich (see literature)
↑ ^a ^b East Frisian Landscape: Annual Report 2009 , with a subtitled photo of the Upstalsboom , taken by the Hannover Historical Museum, page 11; downloadable as a PDF document
^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Lameyer & Sohn jewels, gold and silver goods. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 380

personal data
SURNAME	Knauer, Georg Julius Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German court goldsmith, jeweler, local politician and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	June 5, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH	September 29, 1855
Place of death	Hanover

[HBL-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Waldemar R. Röhrbein: KNAUER, (2) Georg Julius Friedrich (see literature)

[Ostfriesische_Landschaft-2] East Frisian Landscape: Annual Report 2009 , with a subtitled photo of the Upstalsboom , taken by the Hannover Historical Museum, page 11; downloadable as a PDF document

[3] Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Lameyer & Sohn jewels, gold and silver goods. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 380