Hausmann gold and silver tress factory
The Hausmann gold and silver tress factory in Hanover was a family business founded in the 17th century by the Hausmann family , which, as a manufacturer of precious metal processing for the upscale wardrobe of the aristocracy and the military, provided the company with most of the city's employees for decades.
history
The gold and silver tress factory Hausmann emerged from a trading business founded in 1680 by Martinus Hausmann , who came from Ahlden . The first location of Hausmann's initial grocer was Schlossstrasse at the corner of Holzmarkt ( 52 ° 22 ′ 16.5 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 56.6 ″ E ). Hausmann's son, the silk shopkeeper Werner Bernhard Hausmann , continued to run the business and was awarded the title of court shopkeeper at the time of the Electorate of Hanover in 1720 , a title that his descendants also received. In the following year, Hausmann moved his business in 1721 to a large house on Burgstrasse at the corner of Holzmarkt ( 52 ° 22 ′ 18.2 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 56.5 ″ E ), where it lasted for 140 years - and later that Historical Museum Hannover was built.
The first court grocer of the family traveled personally to Holland to buy plush and cloth , and to Lyon in France for embroidered men's clothes and silk vests . In 1743 he also set up a gold and silver factory in Hanover , after Johann Heinrich Moritz von Poppe a manufactory,
In 1786 the company was one of the largest companies in Hanover - along with a stocking factory - with 100 employees. A decade later, in 1796 , Christian Ludwig Albrecht Patje described the company in his work Technological Lexicon ... as the “Golden and Silver Tressen Factory of the Hof-Kramer Hausmann”.
In 1803, the only 19-year-old Bernhard Hausmann took over the family business , sales of which fell sharply during the so-called French era , especially after the electoral Hanoverian army largely moved to England and joined the Royal German Legion there.
Only after the former electorate was elevated to the Kingdom of Hanover did the gold and silver tress factory gradually recover.
At the first trade exhibition of the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover in 1835, Hausmann'sche Edelmetallmanufaktur received one of the four gold medals awarded .
After Hanover was annexed to the German Customs Union , the Hausmann gold and silver tress factory was also in economic distress for “foreign” competition due to the trade facilities : In 1852 the company had only 31 workers .
When after the Battle of Langensalza in the Prussian-German War and the Kingdom of Hanover was annexed by Prussia in 1866 and the Hanoverian Army - the main buyer of the gold and silver tress factory - was dissolved, the company closed in 1867.
literature
- Bernhard Hausmann: My family , in this: memories from the eighty-year life of a Hanoverian citizen , Hahn , Hanover 1873; Pp. 5-13; Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Hermann Schulz: A German family. Told my siblings from the life of our parents and forefathers , 111 pages with 34 black and white illustrations, reprint of the 1904 edition, Berlin: Springer Berlin, 2004, ISBN 978-3-662-32227-7 or ISBN 3-662-32227 -7 , passim
- Johann Heinrich Moritz von Poppe: Technological Lexicon, or: Exact description of all mechanical arts, crafts, manufactories and factories, which is necessary for this. Handles, means, tools, etc. Machinery. ..: in alphabetical order , vol. 2, D - G , Stuttgardt and Tübingen, in the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1816, p. 176
- Ludwig Hoerner : agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 176, 179f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Ludwig Hoerner : Gold- u. Silbertressenfabrik Hausmann. 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. 225; online through google books
- ↑ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer : 1786. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 104; online through google books
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