Heinz Schaubach

Heinz Schaubach (born October 26, 1886 in Alzey ; † April 5, 1970 ) was a German entrepreneur in the porcelain industry .

Life

After attending secondary school and the Wiesbaden School of Applied Arts , which he graduated with the rating “Excellent”, he learned the profession of modeler from scratch. At the age of only 23, he helped the farmer's pottery in Mainz-Finthen to flourish again.

When he returned from the First World War , the pottery in Finthen was largely destroyed. An offer from the Fraureuth porcelain factory led the ambitious artist to the then subsidiary, the Wallendorfer porcelain factory in Lichte in Thuringia, and aroused his enthusiasm for porcelain manufacture. There he took over the management of the art department. When the company fell victim to the global economic crisis in 1926 and filed for bankruptcy, he was promoted to director of the art department of the entire company.

Heinz Schaubach acquired the company share in Neuhaus am Rennweg - Wallendorf from the bankruptcy estate and made it famous under the Schaubachkunst company . In 1940 he expanded his company and founded the Heinz Schaubach Unterweißbach company from the Unterweißbach workshops for porcelain art that went bankrupt in 1936 . He ran both companies successfully until they were expropriated by the GDR government in 1953 . Then he left the GDR and returned to his hometown Mainz.

In the following years, Heinz Schaubach devoted his full interest to the history of porcelain as well as its artists and models. Schaubach was a member of the Honorable Mainz Wine Guild from 1443 and at the same time its first designer of the guild chronicle. In 1962, the entrepreneur donated the Schoppenstecher statue to the city of Mainz on the occasion of its 2000th anniversary . Among other things, he dealt in depth with the life's work of the sculptor Johann Peter Melchior before he died on April 5, 1970 at the age of 84.

source

• Company history of the Wallendorfer porcelain manufactory since 1764
• Schaubachkunst