Hoh & Hahne

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Hoh & Hahne Hohlux
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1899
resolution 1993
Seat Leipzig GermanyGermanyGermany 
Branch Reproduction devices

Hoh & Hahne was a manufacturer founded in 1899 by August Hermann Hoh and Friedrich Hahne in Leipzig , manufacturing supplies for photography and later also of Hohlux reproduction devices for collotype printing . After a checkered history, the company was liquidated as Hoh & Hahne Hohlux GmbH ( Offenbach am Main ) as a subsidiary of H. Berthold AG in 1993. The original factory in Leipzig- Leutzsch was shut down as the Omega Works of VEB Polygraph Reprotechnik in 1990.

history

Repro camera

In 1899 August Hermann Hoh and Friedrich Hahne founded their own company in Leipzig for the production of repro and plate cameras as well as Lux drying plates . From 1926, the company produced under the brand Hohlux reproduction devices such as point light copying arc lamps for light pressure . In 1941 the company changed into a limited partnership. What exactly was produced during World War II is not known. Junkers Flugzeugwerke was probably one of the customers . Also Hoh & Hahne in the list of NS - forced labor camp called and -Gemeinschaftsunterkünfte.

After the Second World War, parts of the plant were dismantled by the Soviet occupying forces as reparations and the rest were expropriated when the GDR was founded .

In 1962 the company was deleted from the GDR commercial register and, together with its architecturally significant factory building, was transferred to VEB Polygraph Reprotechnik as Omega Werke , where printing machines were successfully produced in the following years. After the turnaround in 1990, VEB Polygraph was converted into a GmbH and the factory of the former Hoh & Hahne photographic factory in Leipzig-Leutzsch was shut down.

Repro camera by Hoh & Hahne from 1895 in the German Photo Museum

From 1951, parts of the former workforce of the Leipzig factory continued production in Offenbach am Main as Hoh & Hahne Hohlux GmbH , a subsidiary of the co-founding H. Berthold Messinglinienfabrik und Schriftgießerei AG, Berlin-Stuttgart . Berthold AG filed for bankruptcy in 1993 and was liquidated by decision of the Berlin bankruptcy court.

Today, Hoh & Hahne devices are exhibited in museums such as the German Photo Museum , the German Camera Museum , the Lippe Camera Museum and the Hessenpark open-air museum. Company publications can be found in the archives of the Deutsches Museum and in the catalog of the German National Library . Remnants of the company archive form the stock 20787 Hoh & Hahne, Reproduction Technology, Leipzig in the Saxon State Archive, State Archive Leipzig.

Factory building

In 1910 a new factory building for the Hoh & Hahne photographic factory was built at Georg-Schwarz-Straße 185 in Leipzig. The listed building (09298615) fell into disrepair after the fall of the Wall and became a well-documented ruin and in 2012 it was advertised as a 5-storey, listed industrial building in the shell state for foreclosure auction.

Patents

  • Patent DE1729951U : Device for the production of raster image negatives. Registered December 22, 1955 , published September 13, 1956 . ‌
  • Patent DE1141803B : Device for setting optical devices. Registered December 2, 1960 , published December 27, 1962 . ‌
  • Patent DE1185050B : grid holder for reproduction cameras. Registered February 21, 1964 , published January 7, 1965 . ‌
  • Patent DE2254718A : Densitometer. Filed November 9, 1972 , published May 30, 1974 . ‌
  • Patent DE1023665B : Camera with automatic focusing, electrically controlled by a bridge circuit. Filed September 7, 1953 , published January 30, 1958 . ‌
  • Patent DE1120865B : Camera with electrically controlled focusing. Filed November 4, 1957 , published December 28, 1961 . ‌

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ VEB Polygraph Reprotechnik Leipzig. (No longer available online.) In: Industriekultur Ost. Archived from the original on January 9, 2016 ; accessed on January 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.industrie-kultur-ost.de
  2. ↑ E. Alberts, W. Arndt, A. Beckmann u. A .: Handbook of lighting technology . 1st chapter. Rudolf Sewig Springer Verlag, Berlin 1949, ISBN 978-3-642-50693-2 , p. 508 Fig. 586 .
  3. ↑ Hohlux, Reproduction Apparatus: Maschinen u. Equipment; Anniversary catalog. In: Hoh & Hahne. October 29, 1949, accessed January 8, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Junkers aircraft and engine works. Supplier demands, invoices. In: State Archive Saxony-Anhalt. Retrieved January 8, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Directory of the camps and collective accommodation of foreign workers in the Leipzig area (1939–1945). (PDF; 360 kB) In: Historical Seminar - Chair for History Didactics. Retrieved January 9, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Klaus Neitmann , Jochen Laufer (ed.): Dismantling in the Soviet Occupation Zone and in Berlin 1945 to 1948 . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8305-1899-0 , pp. 153 .
  7. ^ VEB Polygraph Reprotechnik Leipzig. (No longer available online.) In: Industriekultur Ost. Archived from the original on January 9, 2016 ; accessed on January 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.industrie-kultur-ost.de
  8. ^ Berlin: still Germany's largest printing city . In: Die Zeit , No. 22/1956
  9. ↑ A mighty eye-catcher in the foyer is a historical repro camera from the Leipzig manufacturer Hoh & Hahne. In: Hidden Leipzig. Retrieved January 9, 2016 .
  10. ^ Company Hoh & Hahne, Leipzig - entry in the Kurt Tauber collection, Plech, kameramuseum.de
  11. ↑ Hoh & Hahne plate camera 9 × 12. In: Lippisches Kameramuseum. Retrieved January 9, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Flyer book printing. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Der Hessenpark. Archived from the original on January 9, 2016 ; accessed on January 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hessenpark.de
  13. ↑ Company publications. In: German Museum. Retrieved January 9, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Literature by and about Hoh & Hahne in the catalog of the German National Library
  15. ^ Hoh & Hahne Reproduction Technology, Leipzig . archiv.sachsen.de. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  16. ^ VEB Reprotechnik, formerly Hoh & Hahne. In: Spurensammler. May 2010, accessed January 10, 2016 .
  17. ↑ File number: 0457 K 0490/2010

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 8.5 ″  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 10.4 ″  E