Hanns Bisegger

Office building and fur shop J. Bisegger-Kühn, Düsseldorf (before 1909)

Hanns Bisegger (born June 13, 1905 in Düsseldorf ; † January 27, 1985 in Bielefeld ), real first name Johannes, was born as the son of the master furrier Arnold Bisegger (born January 18, 1874 in Düsseldorf; † November 13, 1936), the owner the most important specialist fur fashion store in Düsseldorf at the time (since 1868). Hanns Bisegger founded the Jobis company , one of Germany's leading companies for high-quality women's clothing.

The Bisegger family in the Rhineland also had other furriers with important companies in the fur industry.

Company history

Bisegger fur store, Bisegger-Kühn, Düsseldorf

In the Düsseldorf address book of 1870, the Bisegger fur store is listed in the center of Düsseldorf's old town at Flingerstraße 21. After the first owner, Johannes Bisegger (born February 12, 1841 in St. Gallen ; ↑ November 15, 1904) died, his widow Josefine Wilhelmine nee was in 1890 not far from there, at Casernenstrasse 11 . Kühn (born November 18, 1841 in Aachen; † October 12, 1905) entered the address book as the new owner. In the Düsseldorfer Theater Rundschau of 1913, the purveyor to the court Bisegger-Kühn , founded in 1868, still recommended himself to Kasernenstrasse. 11, at the corner of Grabenstrasse with the range of fine fur goods, umbrellas and sticks, as well as the storage of fur goods . In 1928 it was also registered on Kasernenstrasse.

Adolf Bisegger, who died early in Düsseldorf, was mentioned in the industry in 1924 when he successfully advertised a study trip for German fur industry members to the USA at the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Kürschnertag (the desired grants were approved). Until he was brought into line in 1933, along with Adolf Doll and Gustav Henke, he led the Reich Association of Furriers and Cap Makers in Germany . For the furrier novelty exhibition in Leipzig , he headed the examination committee for the furs to be selected. His son was Hanns Bisegger, the founder of the Jobis company.

In 1957 Bisegger-Kühn was still listed in the fur industry's specialist directory. As in Berlin next to the Hotel Adlon , the shop was located next to one of the most famous hotels in the city, the Breidenbacher Hof , on Alleestraße 38, today's Heinrich-Heine-Allee.

Bisegger Pelze, Berlin

Hanns Bisegger, Berlin, Unter den Linden (1942)

The son Johannes (Hanns) Bisegger attended the humanistic high school in Düsseldorf and then studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Munich, Paris and Montpellier .

Johannes Bisegger actually wanted to become a diplomat, he later took over the office of consul. At the insistence of his father, however, he learned skinning and joined his parents' fur business. In 1928, after training in the fur and textile trade, he passed the journeyman's examination and in 1930/31 the master’s examination in the furrier trade. After working as purchasing and department manager at home and abroad, in Berlin in the Kersten and Tuteur stores and working for CA Herpich Söhne for several years , he opened the fur salon of the Viennese company Peniczek & Rainer on Unter den Linden 75 in Berlin in 1938 , next to the Hotel Adlon and its own wholesale business. When the Berlin branch of the highly respected company “was to pass into other hands, he was the only one to consider. Only he was able to head the representative fur business of the Reich capital in the previous framework. ”What the Jewish industry colleague Philipp Manes cautiously described as“ transferring into other hands ”was the expropriation and Aryanization of the company with owners of Jewish origin.

In 1936, Hanns Bisegger and his wife founded their own company in the corner building on Kommandantenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte. In the first few years there were no restrictions on goods, "he could still buy freely and choose the material that suited his fine taste, for whom the best seemed just good enough". Right from the start, he knew how to give the company its own distinctive character that stood out from other fur shops, namely “through the exquisite shape and quality of its products. So every piece that came out of his hands turned into a real model that was unique. […] Hanns Bisegger brought with him the aptitude to come first, not only did he have the professional qualities, but also his whole personality, the dignity and serious restraint of his nature made him predestined for the post of leader of the branch. ”Already a year later, in 1937, the company exported "very significantly".

In Berlin, Hanns Bisegger opened two large fur salons, the second in 1940 on Kurfürstendamm 230. There he had his exclusive shop in a new building that far surpassed the beautiful Edelpelze Berger shop in terms of “spatial art”. Philipp Manes wrote immediately before he was deported as a Jew to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp shortly before the end of the war :

“At last we have the“ Pelzpalais ”that our industry has wanted for years.

Furnished with exquisite taste, very calm and elegant, muted colors of the carpet, the curtains and the armchairs, the walls. Everything unobtrusive, functional, but in every smallest device you can recognize the hand of the artist who was able to document his own style here.

And that was created during the war in the winter of 1940/41. The young generation is at work here, who bravely dare to take on the greatest of their own. And quite a few furriers in the province can take an example from Bisegger's furnishings, how you can create a beautiful sales room with your own means - material and form used correctly. "

- Philipp Manes, 1942

JOBIS

JOBIS company logo

In 1946, after the end of the war and the loss of the Berlin fur company, Hanns Bisegger went to North Rhine / Westphalia and set up a new company in Bielefeld , from which the company JOBIS ("JO" hannes "BIS" egger) emerged. In 1957 the company was one of the leading companies in the industry and employed around 1,000 people. The Berlin shop was now on Kurfürstendamm 36, where the Jobis collections were also presented while they were traveling through Berlin . Johannes Bisegger was a co-founder of the Düsseldorf fashion fair Igedo . The Jobis company manufactured women's costumes, wool coats and poplin coats. In April 1953, he also resumed the Berlin fur company, now with its headquarters in Bielefeld and branches in Berlin, Frankfurt and Düsseldorf.

The Jobis brand's textile collection embodied a classic fashion style in a particularly high-quality genre. As early as the 1950s, sophisticated costumes were used, and in the 1980s, blazers and small clothing such as skirts, blouses, trousers and knitwear were added.

In 2008, the no longer flourishing fashion label of JOBIS Bekleidungsindustrie GmbH & Co KG was sold by the Bielefeld Seidensticker Group to Düsseldorf-based Damo GmbH , a subsidiary of the Dutch Spot AG . As part of an insolvency, the brand was to be restructured in 2008, and the 108 Bielefeld employees were laid off. In 2009, however, the Jobis subsidiary was closed again.

The Lufthansa uniform

In 1955 Jobis made the first stewardess uniform for Lufthansa . That was the beginning of an almost uninterrupted 50-year collaboration. In the 1970s, Jobis developed the idea for the blue uniform with the young Berlin couturier Werner Machnik . The uniform ensemble was made to measure for each individual stewardess. In the style of the time, the uniform was now less strict than before. The basic equipment included two completely identical sets in Lufthansa's corporate colors, in bright yellow or strong warm blue. This new on-board fashion shaped the face of the airline for around five years. In 1974 the Lufthansa ground crew also received a uniform outfit. In 1978/1979 women wore a trouser suit instead of a skirt and jacket for the first time, and the basic equipment available for a stewardess now comprised 33 pieces. In 1986, for the first time, uniform uniforms existed for all around 15,000 employees on the ground and on board. However, it wasn't until 1991 that the Lufthansa female pilots received an outfit that was now more feminine than that of their male colleagues.

In 1999 another revision was commissioned for the collection. The new design was selected in a competition among various providers: In 2001, Lufthansa decided this time for the designs and the basic lines of the German fashion brand Strenesse for women and for the men's collection from Etzkorn .

Foundations

The two foundations set up by Hanns Bisegger have their administrative headquarters in Bielefeld, according to the foundation directory of the Detmold district government, which was retrieved in 2020.

Hanns Bisegger Foundation (Johannes Bisegger Foundation)

In 1978 Johannes Bisegger used large parts of his fortune for the Bielefeld Hanns Bisegger Foundation. The purpose of the foundation is to promote the musical life of the city of Bielefeld, among other things by organizing musical competitions. His sponsorship of Bielefeld's musical life probably goes back further, as early as on Bisegger's 60th birthday in June 1965 the mixed choir “Die Leineweber” serenaded him there.

The "Hanns Bisegger Foundation Prize for the Promotion of Young Bielefeld Musicians from the City of Bielefeld Music and Art School" (Hanns Bisegger Prize) was first awarded in 2005, the year in which Hanns Bisegger turned 100 and the 20th anniversary of his death.

“According to Wolfgang Goldbeck, managing director of the foundation, the foundation's assets consist of around 6.8 million euros. ^{Status 2014} Since 1985 the same amount has been made available to the foundation's purpose. Around 15 to 20 opera and operetta productions, concerts and other musical projects are regularly funded each year. A significant part of the annual funding goes to the municipal theaters and the Philharmonic Orchestra. There is also a competition for talented musicians, endowed with 5,000 euros by the foundation. "

On the part of the Bielefelder Philharmoniker it was said in 2019:

“In 1985, large parts of his fortune flowed into this foundation. Since then, 92 productions by the music theater and 76 concerts by the Philharmoniker have been funded by the Hanns Bisegger Foundation up to the new season; with the impressive sum of over five million euros. Not least because of this funding, the music theater has been able to perform many hitherto unknown works by forgotten composers in recent years, which has made the Bielefeld theaters of national importance. This allowed internationally renowned soloists to be presented to visitors to the Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra's concerts in the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle. During this season, the foundation is sponsoring our 4th, 8th and 9th symphony concerts and thus outstanding soloists and conductors: Martin Helmchen (piano), Bruno Delepelaire (cello), Gábor Takács-Nagy (conductor). In the 2018/19 season, the Hanns-Bisegger-Foundation will enable its own series of concerts in the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle for the first time . In February 2019 the Academy for Early Music and in May 2019 the Ensemble Modern will be guests in the Great Hall. "

Not far from the former company headquarters in Bielefeld, Hanns-Bisegger-Strasse is still a reminder of the entrepreneur and founder. The street naming suggested the textile manufacturer Gerd Seidensticker , with a written proposal from October 1987 to the mayor. On June 13, 1991, the name was changed according to the foundation name, without the correct spelling of the name Johannes.

International Student House Innsbruck

When he died in 1985, Hanns Bisegger left several properties to the International Student House Innsbruck in a will: eight Garçonnièren at Rechengasse 3, seven Garçonnièren at Hormayrstrasse 12 and eight parking spaces. These properties were integrated into the concept for the further development of the student house. According to the city of Detmold's list of foundations, the purpose of the foundation is to “promote the work area“ Industry and Commerce ”at the University of Innsbruck”. "Consul ah Johannes H. Bisegger" was appointed Senator hc by the University of Innsbruck.

Honors

In addition to being honored by the University of Innsbruck as Senator hc, Hanns Bisegger was the bearer of the great order of eagles, as the family grave in Düsseldorf shows.

Related Bisegger furriers

BELU fur, bisegger fur fashion until 2006 (2010)

Peter Bisegger, with a mannequin, receives an award for outstanding fashion performance in 1980

Krefeld

The list of members of the Reich Association of German Furriers from 1928 lists the company Aug. Wagner, Nachf. Carl Bisegger at Koenigstrasse 147 in Krefeld, alongside J. Bisegger-Kühn in Düsseldorf .

Twenty-two years later, in 1950, the fur index in Krefeld names twenty furriers. The fur business now trading as Pelzmoden Bisegger was run by Ernst Günther Bisegger . It was located on the Ostwall 100-104 shopping street , and in 1957 as Bisegger EG also on Rheinstrasse 89. Peter (-Michael) Bisegger later continued the family tradition of fur retailing on the Ostwall with an attached skinning shop.

In 2006, Peter Bisegger, who last advertised as Bisegger Pelz & Mode , handed over the business to his employees, master furriers Klaus Berner and Klaus Bungter . When it finally closed, the company operated under the name BELU (from “BE” rner and “LU” bert, a Cologne fur manufacturer). After 62 years of a fur shop in the same place, four years after the shop was renovated, the BELU company ended its business activity at the end of 2010. At the time, it advertised being the largest specialist store for fur and leather on the Lower Rhine.

Web links

Commons : Hanns Bisegger  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} grave of the Johannes Bisegger family, Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf .
2. ↑ Database and information exchange on genealogy and family research along the Rhine and the Mettmann district: Rheinische Ahnen - On the trail of ancestors . Primary source address book Düsseldorf 1870 . Retrieved March 21, 2018.
3. ↑ Database and information exchange on genealogy and family research along the Rhine and the Mettmann district: Rheinische Ahnen - On the trail of ancestors . Primary source address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf for the year 1890 . Retrieved March 21, 2018.
4. ↑ Database and information exchange on genealogy and family research along the Rhine and the Mettmann district: Rheinische Ahnen - On the trail of ancestors . Primary source Düsseldorfer Theater Rundschau 1913 , issue 1. Accessed March 21, 2018.
5. ^ Membership directory of the Reichsbund der deutschen Kürschner e. V. , Verlag Arthur Heber & Co., Leipzig 1928, pp. 102, 105.
6. ^ Philipp Manes : The German fur industry and its associations 1900-1940, attempt at a story . Berlin 1941 Volume 2. Copy of the original manuscript, p. 49 ( G. & C. Franke collection ).
7. ^ Philipp Manes : The German fur industry and its associations 1900-1940, attempt at a story . Berlin 1941 Volume 3. Copy of the original manuscript, p. 129 ( → table of contents ).
8. ↑ Fritz Reinhold, Arnold Bisegger: The winning pieces at the Leipzig Innovations exhibition . In: Der Rauchwarenmarkt No. 39, Leipzig, May 18, 1935, p. 2.
9. ↑ Winckelmann specialist address book for tobacco products and Fur industry and the furrier trade Germany , No. 65, 1957, p. 176.
10. ^ ^{A b} Thomas Güntter: Witthaus heads the Bisegger Foundation . City of Bielefeld, Bielefeld Music and Art School, November 1, 2014. Accessed March 23, 2017.
11. ↑ ^{a b c} Without indication of the author: Haute Fourrure - Hanns Bisegger . Hermelin magazine , 1957 No. 1/2, Hermelin-Verlag Dr. Paul Schöps, Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna, p. 35.
12. ^ ^{A b} Official telephone directory for the district of the Reichspostdirektion Berlin, Reichspostdirektion Berlin (ed.). Business directory . Edition 1941 . Retrieved March 21, 2018.
13. ^ ^{A b c} Philipp Manes : The German fur industry and its associations 1900-1940, attempt at a story . Berlin 1941 Volume 4. Copy of the original manuscript, pp. 150–152, 327–328 ( → table of contents ).
14. ^ [1] Company advertisement Hanns Bisegger . In: Der Spiegel September 29, 1954. Retrieved March 27, 2017, p. 9.
15. ↑ ^{a b} [2] www.modeopfer110.de: JOBIS . Retrieved March 23, 2017.
16. ^ [3] Neue Westfälische: decline of the Bielefeld fashion industry . Bielefeld, October 27, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2017
17. ^ [4] Tim Stelzer: Seidensticker . Textilkontor Walter Seidensticker GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
18. ↑ ^{a b} [5] all of Munich: 50 years of fashion above the clouds Uniform as calling card for Lufthansa flight attendants, part 2: 1970-today. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
19. ^ [6] Neue Westfälische, Lothar Schmalen: Jobis crisis overcome . September 1, 2009. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
20. ↑ www.leineweber-chor.de: Mixed choir “Die Leineweber” 1960-1969 . Retrieved April 13, 2020.
21. ↑ Theater Bielefeld, season 2019/2019: "I" - Hanns-Bisegger Foundation . (PDF) Retrieved April 12, 2020.
22. ↑ John Strzyzewski: Bisegger - Who was Hanns Bisegger . City of Bielefeld, Bielefeld Music and Art School, October 3, 2018. Accessed April 10, 2020.
23. ^ Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra . Retrieved April 13, 2020.
24. ↑ Street Names in History - History in Street Names . Anna Lisa Tibaudo: Hanns-Bisegger-Strasse . In: Ravensberger Blätter , 2nd issue 2013, p. 9. Accessed on April 12, 2020
25. ↑ List of foundations of the Detmold district government . District government Detmold NRW. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
26. ^ Membership directory of the Reichsbund der deutschen Kürschner e. V. , Verlag Arthur Heber & Co., Leipzig 1928, pp. 102, 105.
27. ↑ Winckelmann professional address 1950 S. 167th
28. ↑ Winckelmann Pelzfachverzeichnis, p. 210
29. ↑ Winckelmann wall table 1998-2000 .
30. ↑ Wolfhardt Petzold: With summer leather through the doldrums . IWZ Westdeutsche Zeitung, May 27, 2009. Retrieved March 24, 2017.
31. ↑ Belu fur fashion closes on the Ostwall . Westdeutsche Zeitung , October 18, 2010. Accessed April 12, 2020.