History of the pottery industry in Marwitz
The history of the pottery industry in Marwitz describes the history of the industry in the Marwitz district of the Brandenburg municipality of Oberkrämer . The rise of the pottery industry in Velten also resulted in a factory in nearby Marwitz. In 1905 there were two factories with over 40 employees.
Oven factory Julius Dolatkowsky & Co.
The furnace factory Julius Dolatkowsky & Co, named after its founder from Landsberg ad Warthe . specialized in the manufacture of melting furnaces and was able to hold out until the expropriation in 1972.
Oven factory Wundtke, Wendland & Co.
The furnace factory of the founding company Wuntke, Wendland & Co , built before 1890 . is the last of the ceramic factories still in operation in Velten and Marwitz. It is under monument protection and is entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg . The factory building was built for the production of white glazed ovens from the so-called Velten or Berlin tiles and specialized in old German, round and octagonal shapes. In 1905 the partners were Gustav Wundtke from Marwitz, Karl Wendland from Bötzow and Otto Brumm, who was later replaced by the potter Hermann Netzband from Marwitz. The company went bankrupt in 1916.
Petry garden ceramics
The successor company Petry produced garden ceramics until around 1923.
Haël workshops for artistic ceramics
From 1923 until it was temporarily closed on July 1, 1933, the Marwitzer furnace factory was the production site of the Haël workshops for artistic ceramics founded by Gustav and Daniel Loebenstein . Both died as a result of their traffic accident on August 24, 1928. The company was continued by the company's artistic director, Gustav Loebenstein's widow, Margarete Heymann-Loebenstein . The internationally successful company was shut down on July 1, 1933 as a result of economic difficulties and the increasing marginalization of the Jewish owner after the National Socialists came to power and sold to Heinrich Schild , Secretary General of the Reich Association of German Crafts, on April 26, 1934 .
HB workshops for ceramics
On May 1, 1934, it was re-founded as HB workshops for ceramics . The managing director Heinrich Schild appointed the ceramist Hedwig Bollhagen as artistic director. In 1938 the GmbH was converted to an OHG . In 1972 the company was nationalized, but Hedwig Bollhagen stayed with the company as artistic director. After reunification, the company was re-privatized in 1992.
See also
History of the pottery industry in Velten
Individual evidence
- ↑ Haël-Keramik 1923-1933. In: DESIGN20.eu. Retrieved on September 22, 2018 (de-DE-formal).
- ^ Margarete Heymann-Loebenstein: Bauhaus100. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 22, 2018 ; accessed on September 22, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
