Commercial exhibitions in the Kingdom of Hanover

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The trade exhibitions in the Kingdom of Hanover were first organized in 1835 by the Trade Association for the Kingdom of Hanover , and later also by successor organizations in the area of ​​what is now the state of Lower Saxony . A bow can be drawn from these early exhibitions to the Hanover Fair and Expo 2000 .

history

From 1835

“Königshütter Kunst-Glas-Waaren” at the 6th trade exhibition in Hanover ;
Photograph by Eugen Lulves in 1859
Situation in 1859

The first trade exhibition in the Kingdom of Hanover was held in the Leineschloss in 1835 . The exhibition served "both to stimulate and promote the tradespeople as well as to showcase the trade and the emerging industry ." The show also promoted the products of the 381 exhibitors, who presented around 3,500 exhibits, and in 1835 "apparently brought about a great innovation boost ".

The later industrial exhibitions of 1836, 1840, 1844, 1850 and 1859 were less and less attended to because the time lag was too short, the effort was great and the costs too high.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the »Trade Association for the Kingdom of Hanover«, the last trade exhibition took place in the still independent kingdom in 1859, before it was annexed by Prussia in 1866 : 296 exhibitors provided around 5,000 objects in the rooms of the »Museum of Art and Science «(Today's Künstlerhaus ) is“ proof of the advanced industrial development in Hanover ”. The court photographer Eugen Lulves took a total of twelve photographs of this last exhibition in the Kingdom of Hanover , which referred to Crown Prince Ernst August as salt prints in an album by the court book dealer Victor Lohse .

General trade exhibition of the province of Hanover

  • In 1878 the final "General Trade Exhibition of the [now Prussian] Province of Hanover" was held. For this purpose, large halls were built in the Welfengarten by the architect Otto Goetze . On July 2nd, Prince Albrecht of Prussia opened the exhibition. Around 400,000 visitors visited the show of around 1,500 exhibitors. There was an official "trade exhibition newspaper" for the event. The official photographer was Friedrich Reinecke . In addition to the photographers Körtling , Thies and Nordahl , who wanted to present their products appropriately at the exhibition, due to the lack of public recognition of the still young photography and the corresponding lack of preparation by the exhibition management, only the photographers Karl Friedrich Wunder and his brother Otto Wunder came more right than badly to some extent to the train.

In addition to the general trade exhibitions , there were also performance shows by the local trade associations and, after 1867, numerous special and specialist exhibitions. From 1900 (until 1931) an exhibition hall of the trade association was used in the Landschaftsstrasse in Hanover. In addition, there were permanent exhibitions at various locations in the former kingdom.

literature

Web links

Commons : Industrial exhibitions Hanover  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Sources and Notes

  1. GF Tölcke: From the trade exhibition to the world exhibition ...
  2. a b c d Ludwig Hoerner, Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Commercial exhibitions. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 219.
  3. in private ownership, Eugen Lulves: Twelve views of the sixth trade exhibition (1859) in Hanover ...
  4. 1878. In: Hannover Chronik . P. 135.
  5. A photo of the halls from 1878 in the possession of the Hanover Historical Museum ; (on-line)
  6. Note: The Hanover Chronicle in 1878 mentions 150 exhibitors.
  7. ^ Ludwig Hoerner: Photography and Photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim. Festschrift for the 150th birthday of photography . Issued by the photographer's Innungen Hannover and Hildesheim , prepared in Berufsförderungswerk Bad Pyrmont in the occupations brief, reprophotography platemaking, planographic printing and bookbinding in the context of retraining, 1989, p. 12