Heimendahl & Keller

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Heimendahl & Keller, letterhead, 1925

Heimendahl & Keller was a metal goods factory for the production of cutlery and flat dishes in Hilden .

history

Hilden grave Emil Keller

Britanniawaren cutlery factory

In 1874 Emil Keller (born April 2, 1850 in Mülheim am Rhein (today Cologne-Mülheim), † June 16, 1903 in Hilden) founded a cutlery factory in Solingen for the production of Britannia goods ("Britannia silver"). In the production of pure Britannia products as cutlery , melted liquid Britannia metal is poured into molds. The process for the production of shiny silver tin and steel cutlery came from England and was new in Germany at the time. In a further development of Britanniawaren, a cast iron core with a liquid non-ferrous metal -z. B. tin - alloy plated.

In addition to Britannia goods, Heimendahl & Keller produced cutlery made of stainless steel. The raw form was produced by punching out of sheet steel. The punched blank mold was then treated with monkey and air pressure hammer cold forged or in the form of cutlery rolled.

To increase the corrosion resistance of cutlery, a shaped steel core with an alloy e.g. B. Nickel silver plated.

Owner, managing director and locations

In 1881 Emil Keller took Karl Richard Heimendahl from Elberfeld (born May 16, 1851 in Elberfeld) into the business as a partner and commercial director. Richard Heimendahl was the son of Karl Richard Heimendahl (born March 6, 1824 in Elberfeld; † January 31, 1863 in Bonn ) and Julia Ida Ostermann (born September 10, 1830 in Elberfeld; † March 5, 1894 in Elberfeld). He married Laura Schlieper on February 17, 1885 (born October 31, 1855 in Elberfeld). Her children were Richard (* February 28, 1886 in Hilden; † October 28, 1971 in Düsseldorf), Walter (* July 10, 1887 in Hilden), Herbert (* June 27, 1889 in Hilden; † October 13, 1981 in Leichlingen ) and Konrad (born May 30, 1891 in Hilden; † April 29, 1945 in Villes-Hélon near Soissons ).

The factory and sales department was relocated to Hilden at Eichenstraße 13 (the street section is now renamed Otto-Hahn-Straße), Flur 15 No. 679/680 west of the Hilden train station, which opened in 1874, and was put into operation on January 15, 1883. The plant was located between the railroad tracks and Tellerringstrasse at the corner of Düsseldorfer Strasse. The open trading company Heimendahl & Keller (OHG) existed from 1884. The economic success in 1887 allowed the expansion of the factory and the installation of three drop hammers and one pneumatic hammer. The workforce had grown to 450 in 1914.

After the death of the first owner, the business was passed on to their sons Herbert Heimendahl (1886–1981), Konrad Heimendahl (1891–1945) and Friedrich Emil Keller († November 1951). On May 11, 1923, the company was converted into a stock corporation Heimendahl & Keller AG . Friedrich Emil Keller left the company in 1934. It was then called Heimendahl & Co GmbH Hilden . After bankruptcy, the Mettmann-based Britannia family company Seibel continued to run Heimendahl & Keller as a subsidiary from 1939 . Helmut Seibel (born May 1, 1906 - November 1, 1991) and Rudolf Seibel (* April 25, 1880 in Volmarstein , † 1951 in Mettmann) were on the board alongside Konrad Heimendahl, who fell in northern France shortly before the end of World War II, represented. The number of employees fell to 199 in 1933 due to the economic crisis and rose slightly to 210 in 1944. Today the cutlery and stainless steel manufacturer Seibel operates under the name mono GmbH . Your brand is called Mono .

Heimendahl & Keller model Alpha Form 801 made of Arotan, designed by Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg 1961/1962
Heimendahl & Keller stand at the World Exhibition in Paris

The improvement in cutlery production by punching the shape, cold forming into the cutlery shape and then coating with an alloy brought the Heimendahl & Keller factory great economic success. On April 25, 1959, it relocated modern production to a flat new building on Herderstrasse 45 (architect Hans Weuster from Düsseldorf). The old property on Eichenstrasse was acquired in 1961 by Rheinische Feuerungstechnik GmbH, a subsidiary of Rheinstahl-Eisenwerk Hilden AG .

Heimendahl & Keller had sample warehouses in Berlin , Wroclaw , Hamburg , Königsberg , Leipzig and Munich .

The Mettmann company W. Seibel (200 employees) and its Hilden subsidiary Heimendahl & Keller (Seibel) (160 employees) merged on January 1, 1974 with Carl Prinz AG in Solingen-Wald (150 employees) and its subsidiary Friedrich Burberg GmbH (Solingen) to form the new company Prinz und Seibel (P&S) . The seat was Solingen, the management took over Friedrich Seibel.

On November 7, 1976, cutlery production ended in Hilden in Herderstrasse. The Hilden workforce relocated to Solingen-Wald with 80 workers.

Approx. In 1975 the cutlery sector was given up by Prinz and sold to Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG (WMF) .

Metal and alloys

Stainless steel was used as the core material for the tableware. It was coated with an alloy. Rows of cutlery from the metal goods factory are described in the catalog for the Leipziger Messe 1936 and in the catalog from 1960 from: Britannia Zinnstahl; stainless steel; Steel 18/8 (Arotan) steel hammered; Steel 18/8 chrome-plated ; Chrome-plated, nickel-plated or tin-plated steel ; (Granite) steel copper-plated and nickel-plated and chrome-plated; Steel copper-plated and nickel-plated and chrome-plated, polished to a matt finish; Double tinned steel; Hard silver plated stainless steel .

Series of cutlery made of nickel silver with the designation Alpaka / Alpacca silver . Nickel silver is the name for a copper-nickel-zinc alloy with high corrosion resistance, strength and a silver-like appearance. Alternative names for nickel silver are: Argentan, Minargent, Cuivre blanc, Maillechort, Packfong. The term hotel silver is also used. Rows of cutlery were made from the following materials: alpaca chrome-plated, nickel-plated or tinned; Alpacca with 100 g silver coating; Alpacca with 100 g high gloss silver plated; Alpacca with 100 g silver coating, nickel-plated.

Abbatan / Albahn; Stainless steel roneusil; Steel 18/8 chrome plated, coated with manganese (Silesil); Hard gold-plated.

Series and design names

Heimendahl & Keller produced entire series of cutlery with a wide variety of functions. z. B. spoons (with 19 functions), forks (with 11 functions), knives (with 3 functions) as well as sugar tongs, cake and ice cream scoops.

Manufacturer code

Heimendahl & Co., Logo Ritter (1935)
Heimendahl & Keller AG, Logo HK with Aesculapian staff (1939)
Heimendahl & Keller AG, logo 75 years (1949)

The cutlery from Heimendahl & Keller is signed with the manufacturer code H&HK Heimendahl & Keller Hilden. Further stamps were “HK with Aesculapian staff” and “HK with knight”, also with the letters “H&KH” interchanged.

Cutlery designer

The industrial designer Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg (born January 29, 1908 in Ulm ; † April 12, 1998 in Würzburg ) simultaneously designed cutlery for W. Seibel in Mettmann (1954 to 1964); Heimendahl & Keller (1956 to 1964) in Hilden and Carl Prinz AG in Solingen-Wald (1962 to 1965).

Paul Voss was another industrial designer for cutlery from Heimendahl & Keller.

Series of cutlery

The catalog for the Leipziger Messe 1936 contains cutlery rows from Heimendahl & Keller which were made from different materials in a wide variety of series with their own shape and decor.

H + K series 666 Hilden no. 5
H + K cutlery series

The series were called, for example: Astrid, Brunhild, Casio, Chippendale, Derby, Dolores, Elite, Erika, Exquisit, Fächer, Fadenstiel, Fontana, Gudrun, Haka, Heim chrome, Hilda, Hotel Muster, Queen Louise, Louis XV, Marie Antonette , Mars, Mechthild, medallion, shell, pearl rim, rhombus, Roland, pink, mirror pattern, streamlines, Svenska, Viola, Vienna and children's cutlery series with fairy tale characters or colorful animal symbols.

DAF cutlery ( German Labor Front ) was also a series . The patterns for this were designed by Kurt Baer in 1938.

Significant rows of cutlery

  • Table cutlery model 555-Elite made of Arotan steel 18/8, 90 g silver-plated. Design: Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg, 1955/57, 26 parts. It is related in form to the Jutta model by Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg, which was produced by W. Seibel. In 1961 it was added to the picture index of the Deutscher Werkbund der "Deutsche Warenkunde".
  • Alpha Form 801 made of Arotan, designed by Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg 1961/1962. The paragraph in the knife blade is significant. It was selected for the "International Cutlery Exhibition" (Ibesta) in Krefeld in 1962.
  • Alpha Form 801 Arotan Wagenfeld era, designed by Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg, 14-piece cutlery;
  • Alpha Form 801 made of Arotan, silver-plated 90-8, designed by Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg 1960–1962, 105-piece cutlery for 12 people;
  • Cutlery Arotan-100 silver plating, with spiral pattern, 22 pieces for 6 people;
  • Cutlery Arotan-100 silver plating, with rose decor, 30 pieces for 6 people;
  • Arotan Roneusil stainless steel 18/8. It was selected for IBESTA 1962.

Further products

Heimendahl & Keller also manufactured cruets (salt, pepper and sugar shakers ) for storing table spices and egg cups . For this purpose, cast metal was nickel-plated. They stood in nickel-plated, chrome-plated or silver-plated wire frames. Spout corks completed the table sets.

Heimendahl & Keller also manufactured can openers for the army.

Web links

Commons : Heimendahl & Keller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Antweiler, Bernd-Morgner Gärtner: Metallverarbeitung in Hilden , Hildener Museumhefte Volume 4, 192, page 12
  2. ^ Mettmann's industrial history
  3. ↑ Richard Heimendahl (* 1851), entrepreneur (GND 139578528 )
  4. ^ Children of Richard Heimendahl and Laura Schlieper
  5. ↑ a b Wolfgang Wennig: History of the Hilden industry, from the beginnings of commercial activity to the year 1900 , Hilden City Archives, 1974, pages 71, 150
  6. ^ "Handbook of German Stock Companies", Hoppenstedt Volume 49, Part 1, 1944
  7. ^ Rheinstahl-Eisenwerk Hilden, Die Handelsauskunft, Special Edition June 1966
  8. ↑ a b Museum is looking for historical cutlery, Rheinische Post November 4, 2017, accessed July 22, 2018
  9. ↑ Ernst Schneider: Seibel cutlery to Solingen, also a daughter from Hilden zur Klingenstadt , Rheinische Post December 15, 1973
  10. ↑ Hilden Yearbook, New Series, Volume III, 1981, page 259
  11. ^ Resale from Prinz to WMF, Forum www. Dieschatzkisteimn.de Post by Pikki Mee »Sunday April 23, 2017, 11:16 pm
  12. ^ Hilden City Archives , accessed August 9, 2018
  13. ↑ a b General Catalog 1936 Heimendahl & Keller AG Hilden, Publisher: Hilden Heimendahl & Keller AG Metallwarenfabrik 1936
  14. ↑ Heimendahl & Keller, Arotan Cutlery Factory Hilden, 1969
  15. ↑ Arotan-Roneusil-Edelstahl 18/8 Form 801 , accessed July 27, 2018
  16. ↑ Cutlery manufacturer codes , accessed July 22, 2018
  17. ↑ a b Model 555-Elite made of Arotan steel 18/8
  18. ↑ a b Military crockery can opener H&KH 42 stainless, Militaria Fundforum page 30 , accessed July 27, 2018
  19. ^ Photo and biography of Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg
  20. ^ A b c Siegfried Gronert: Form and Industry, Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg , Verlag form GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-931317-63-3
  21. ^ Paul Voss in the Museum der Dinge, inventory number O 220-09 , accessed July 22, 2018