Hermann Ranft

Hermann Ranft (born August 8, 1906 in Buchholz ; † March 29, 1976 in Annaberg-Buchholz ) was a German carpenter and model maker.

After attending school in Buchholz, he learned the carpentry trade. He then got a job at the Georg Adler furniture factory in Walthersdorf , which, however, had to close due to the global economic crisis. Having become unemployed, he devoted himself to model making and during this time created a. a. a model of the Frohnau hammer in 5,000 working hours . After the owner of the washing machine factory in Schwarzenberg , Friedrich Emil Krauss , became aware of him, he got a job as a model maker with his own workshop during the Nazi era . There he mainly prepared the celebration ohms exhibition in 1937 with various models. After the end of the Second World War , for example, he created models for the Museum of German History in Berlin. Many of his works are still preserved and are exhibited in several museums not only in the Ore Mountains .

literature

• Hans Burkhardt : Hermann Ranft in memory , in: Sächsische Heimatblätter 23 (1977), Heft 2, pp. 95-96.
• Jörg Bräuer: Hermann Ranft - a master of model art , in: Yearbook for the Erzgebirge, 2006, pp. 62–63.