Trade and Industry Museum (Hanover)

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Palais Simon with inscriptions Handels-Kammer Hannover and Handels- u. Industry Museum . Photo postcard c. 1919 Original in the Hanover Historical Museum

The Trade and Industry Museum in Hannover was one of the Chamber of Commerce appointed early 20th century in-house museum to were known union exhibition initially only Hanoverian companies , then the industrial and business firms in the area of the later state Lower Saxony . The location of the museum was the Palais Simon at the address Brühlstrasse 1 , at the corner of Escherstrasse in the Calenberger Neustadt on the border with the Hanoverian district Mitte .

history

After the Hanover Chamber of Commerce at the time moved its headquarters to the Palais Simon in 1896, the museum was opened in the same building around a decade later in 1906 based on a concept for a merchandise exhibition developed by the pharmacist Karl Schaper .

After the First World War , at the beginning of the Weimar Republic in 1919, the company moved to the building at Arnswaldstrasse 28 , but the museum continued to operate on Brühlstrasse.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists drew Herbert Roehrig from 1934 a new concept, but only in 1937 after temporary closure of the museum by investments from total around 300,000 Reichsmarks of Nazi boom and then following the reopening was seen in the course. In 40 different "themed rooms" distributed over the four floors of the palace, the Lower Saxon economy of its time was presented with all its technical and economic aspects, in particular with a didactic claim typical of the National Socialist era . Models , (functional) dioramas , stagings and display boards conveyed clear information about natural resources , raw materials and processing industries, transport , trade , banks and local insurance companies .

During the Second World War , the exhibits in the museum were completely destroyed by aerial bombs in the air raid on Hanover on October 9, 1943 , but the former Palais Simon itself was only slightly destroyed.

While the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hanover had meanwhile moved its headquarters to its own building at Finkenstrasse 5 as early as 1928 , it was rebuilt after the war damage and the closure of Finkenstrasse in order to break through Berliner Allee ; in the first construction phase in 1951 at the address Berliner Allee 25 . The former Palais Simon and later the IHK museum on Brühlstrasse, however, was demolished in 1952 according to the plans of city planner Rudolf Hillebrecht .

Archival material

An archive for Trade and Industry Museum of the later IHK Hanover For example,

Literature (selection)

  • Herbert Röhrig : The Trade and Industry Museum in Hanover. What it wants and how it should be (= Wirtschaftsblatt Niedersachsen , year 1934, number 19/20), Hanover: Trade and Industry Museum of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry, [1934]
  • NN: Hanover Trade and Industry Museum of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Leader , prospectus , Hanover: IHK, 1938
  • Albert Lefèvre: 100 years of Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 1866 - 1966. Order and fulfillment , Wiesbaden: Verlag für Wirtschaftspublizistik Bartels, 1966, p. 66 u.ö.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the year 1919 is given as the date of the opening of the museum, see NN : Mitteilungen der Gauß-Gesellschaft , Edition 27, 1990, p. 62; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ Literally there: “[...] Destruction u. Total loss in bombing [...] ”, which can give the impression that not only the exhibition but also the palace has been totally destroyed

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas Schwark : Trade and Industry Museum . 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 , pp. 251f.
  2. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Simon, (1) Israel. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 335; online through google books
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Brühlstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 49
  4. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: Escherstraße , in ders .: The street names ... , p. 74
  5. ↑ a b c Rainer Ertel : Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Hanover. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 316
  6. ^ Thomas Schwark : Trade and Industry Museum . In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 251f.
  7. ^ A b Friedrich Lindau : Planning and building in the fifties in Hanover , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1998, ISBN 3-87706-530-9 ; passim ; mostly online via Google books
  8. ↑ ibid, p. 12

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '33.6 "  N , 9 ° 43' 36.6"  E