Heinrich Scherping (gunsmith)

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Court gunsmith H. Scherping, Hanover, studio photo, around 1900

Heinrich Scherping (* 1831 in Güstrow , † before September 30th 1913 in Hannover ) was a German court - gunsmith .

Life

After completing his apprenticeship, Heinrich Scherping initially went to Herzberg, Suhl and Vienna . In 1857 he founded his own arms business.

In 1862 Scherping was accepted into the Hanoverian blacksmith's office and in 1863 after acquiring citizenship, initially with his seat at Wagenerstraße 11, he was the first representative of his name in the city of Hanover and initially only as a gunsmith without a title in Calenberger Neustadt .

After moving initially to Hinterhäuser at Georgstrasse 9 and 10, Scherping was appointed "court gunsmith" in 1866. As a result, when he moved to Burgstrasse 19 , he moved closer to the Leineschloss and the old center of power in the former royal seat , but at Easter 1873 he moved to his final business address at Große Wallstrasse 8 .

Around 1880: Advertisement for the rental of Scherpings hunting rifles for seal and seagull hunting on Norderney

In 1878 Scherping showed eight rifles at the now Prussian general trade exhibition of the province of Hanover . However , Scherping rejected an application from his future competitor Wilhelm Brenneke for an apprenticeship position shortly afterwards with the advice to “learn something more promising”.

Around 1880 Scherping offered bathers on Norderney at a rifle and pistol shooting range installed near the southwest beach on loan for hunting rifles for seal and gull hunting.

As a court gunsmith , Scherping “ signed variously” the rifles he sold . For example, an internationally respected as extraordinary target pistol known arisen in conjunction with UAZ, the Udo Anschütz gun factory in Zella-Mehlis . The piece, made from an octagonal barrel made of solid walnut, is branded “H. Scherping ”signed.

In 1907 the magazine Jagd und Weapon published a photo on the anniversary of the founding of " Old Master Scherping" and reported that "numerous admirers from all parts of Germany [... had come together to] [donate] the jubilee a splendid gift of honor".

Even before the company's founder died in 1913, the company "Heinrich Scherping" with the number HRA 3991 entered in the commercial register at the Hanover District Court, the gunsmith Heinrich Eckebrecht joined as the second owner. In addition to the manufacture of weapons, the company, which had the sole right of representation for products from the hunting rifle factory JP Sauer & Sohn in the Hanover area, advertised its warehouse of hunting and firearms , ammunition and hunting equipment.

Even before September 30, 1913, Heinrich Eckebrecht had taken over the business in the year the company's founder died, and now appeared as the sole owner with the title of "court gunsmith" with initially unchanged orientation.

During the time of the German Empire, hunting weapons, ammunition and equipment from the Scherping company were exported to the German colonies . These arms exports from Scherping were in turn recorded by the accounting department of the German Agricultural Society (DLG). A few weeks before the outbreak of the First World War , the collection of hunting trophies of the secret councilor Berthold Körting was shown at the 27th traveling exhibition of the DLG, the colonial economic exhibition opened on June 18, 1914 in Hanover , including his on the shooting of game in the tropics of Africa used " self - cocking double rifles " from Scherping.

Heinrich Scherping eK, 1911–1963

With artist signature “FKL” by the painter and graphic artist Friedrich Karl Lippert : “Scherping Waffen”, advertising sheet from 1924 with a hunter and a hunting weapon and the - wrong - date of foundation 1847

In contrast to the natural person of the court gunsmith , an entry in the commercial register under number HRA 14587 is said to have been made for the company Heinrich Scherping eK at the Hanover local court on October 28, 1911 . Accordingly, this company was deleted from the commercial register on May 20, 1963.

A rifle dated “circa 1930” with the signature “H. Scherping ”was donated as a gift from the Stans African Hall of the Museum of York County in Rock Hill (South Carolina) , USA, to the Cody Firearms Museum in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West .

A specialty of Scherping's production was the “Lippertsche Waidbesteck ” named after Friedrich Karl Lippert , to which the Lippertsche Waidblatt belongs. The painter and hunter Lippert invented this special knife in 1936 and had it manufactured by the Scherping company in laborious manual work in a few individual copies. The pieces became sought-after and hardly to be found collector's items .

Later, the sword grinder Willi Ulrich - as the last of his field in Solingen in 2009 - made the so-called "Lippertsche Waidblatt" as a replica of the Scherping original.

literature

  • Ross Seyfried: The Art of H. Scherping. Three-Fourths of a Pair (in English), in Daniel Côté, Joanna Côté (editors): The Double Gun Journal , Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 1997, p. 101-103; Partial digitization via the germanhuntingguns.com site

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Scherping (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Wolfgang Glage: Gunsmith and Rustmeister in Hanover , in this: Gunsmithing in Hanover , accompanying document for the exhibition in the Historical Museum on Hohen Ufer from December 10, 1978 to January 21, 1979 in Hanover, Langenhagen : Hartwig Popp KG, pp. 25-28; here: p. 27
  2. ↑ a b Address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden for the year 1914, section III: Alphabetical directory of residents and trading companies , "Editorial deadline September 30 [1913]", p. 1; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB) via the German Research Foundation
  3. ↑ a b Address Book ... 1914 ... Alphabetical ... , p. 449; Digitized version of the GWLB
  4. ↑ Martin Kruschitz: Hahn- Doppelbüchse , Heinrich Scherping - Hannover , lot description of the Dorotheum auction house for auction on February 28, 2015
  5. ↑ a b Shot and weapon : Illustrated, publicly understood magazine for hunting and sporting shooting, as well as shooting range systems, weapon technology, weapon history, etc. , Issue 1 (1907), ed. from the weapons technology test station Neumannswalde-Neudamm, Neudamm: Neumann, 1907, p. 231; Preview over google books
  6. ^ Address book ... to the year 1862, Dept. I, 4: Alphabetical directory ... , p. 264; Digital copy of the GWLB [no entry for "Scherping"]
  7. ^ Address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover for the year 1863, section I: Address and housing gazette , 4: Alphabetical directory of residents , p. 271; Digitized GWLB
  8. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Wagenerstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 256
  9. ^ Address book 1865 .
  10. ^ Address book 1866
  11. ^ Address book ... 1867
  12. ^ Address book 1873
  13. ^ General trade exhibition of the Province of Hanover for the year 1878. Official catalog with historical and statistical introductions. With a plan of the exhibition localities , 5th improved and enlarged edition, Hanover: Hofbuchdruckerei der Gebrüder Jänecke, 1878, p. 92; Digitized via Google books
  14. ^ Ernst-Otto Pieper: Wilhelm Brenneke on his 150th birthday , article [ undated , 2015] on the page wildhueter-st-hubertus.de
  15. ↑ Compare the advertisement from the 1880 Christmas edition of the spa courier
  16. ↑ a b Guns of the World (in English), Random House Value Publishing, Dec. 12, 1988, p. 89; Preview over google books
  17. ↑ . O V. : museums Zella-Mehlis / Zella-Mehlis and weapons. Weapons companies on the zella-mehlis.de page [ undated ], last accessed on August 9, 2019
  18. ^ Address book 1913
  19. ↑ Wolfgang Glage: Gunsmith ... , p. 26
  20. ^ Communications from the German Agricultural Society , Volume 29, DLG Verlag, 1914, p. 332; Preview over google books
  21. ^ The colonial economic exhibition in Hanover , in: Deutsche Kolonialzeitung . Organ of the German Colonial Society , Volume 31, Issue No. 26 of June 27, 1914, p. 426; Digitized via the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  22. ↑ Compare the information on northdata.de [no date], last accessed on August 8, 2019
  23. ↑ Herbert G. Houze : Cody Firearms Museum (in English), Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1991, p. 79; Preview over google books
  24. ^ A b c Richard Schneider: Das Lippertsche Waidblatt / rare and coveted ; Article as PDF document from the former Willi Ulrich company. Steel goods from our own production - shooting articles on the page http://svalbardrepublic.org in the version of May 5, 2010
  25. ↑ Norbert Steinau (Hrsg :): Hunting in the Lüneburg Heath. Contributions to hunting history. Publication accompanying the exhibition (= publications by the Agricultural Museum Lüneburger Heide , Volume 15), Celle: Bomann Museum; Suderburg-Hösseringen: Agricultural Museum Lüneburger Heide, 2006, ISBN 978-3-925902-59-8 and ISBN 3-925902-59-7 , pp. 190ff. u.ö .; Preview over google books
  26. ↑ Pia Bergmeister: Solingen / The last of his subject ... , article on the rp-online.de page from February 4, 2099, last accessed on August 10, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Scherping, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Hanoverian court gunsmith
DATE OF BIRTH 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH 1913
Place of death Hanover