Jacob Gilardi
Jacob Gilardi was one of the oldest companies for Leonische Waren in Germany. It was located in Allersberg , Middle Franconia , from 1689 to 2006 . To date, a striking exists on Allersberger marketplace palace of the Baroque period .
1689 to 1892: Heckel and Gilardi families
The Gilardi company was founded by Johann Georg Heckel the Elder. Ä. founded in 1689 and by the Milanese Giacomo (Jacob) Gilardi, who was the widow of Johann Georg Heckel the Elder. J., Sybilla Maurer, married, continued from 1708. Gilardi had the palace named after him and the associated factory built by Gabriel de Gabrieli in 1723 . Gilardi was at that time one of the most important Leonese manufacturers and exported its goods worldwide. In 1756 she was granted the imperial knighthood. The Gilardis descendants, the Siegert family, managed the company until it went bankrupt in 1892.
1894 to 2006: Families Geiershoefer and Schulenburg
In 1894 the company was acquired by the Geiershoefer family from Nuremberg. Under the direction of Otto Geiershoefer, who took over Giliardi in 1904 from his brother Anton as sole owner, Christmas tree decorations were mainly made from Leonean wire. When Otto Geiershoefer died in 1936, the company became the property of his widow Else and her son Erik became managing director.
In Nazi Germany , the Geiershoefer family, who are of Jewish descent, was expropriated in 1938 by the district leadership of the NSDAP in the course of Aryanization . The company sold this to the Weissenburg entrepreneur Hermann Gutmann . Erik Geiershoefer was able to flee to England with his wife Magda and daughter Susanne ; his mother Else was taken to the Lodz ghetto , where she perished. A ' stumbling block ' reminds of them in Hamburg .
After the end of the Second World War , Erik Geiershoefer returned to Allersberg with his family in 1946 and began to rebuild the company and the partially badly destroyed buildings. In the 1950s, Hermann Gutmann had to return the company to its original owner. The Gilardi company was soon represented again at the major trade fairs in Nuremberg, Leipzig and Frankfurt, delivered all over the world and employed over 50 people.
When Erik Geiershoefer died in 1971, his daughter Susanne and her husband Helmut Schulenburg took over the management. The company's range now largely consisted of garlands and decorations made of PVC . 'Grandmother's Christmas tree decorations' continued to be made, mainly at home . Many tons of tin foil - tinsel packed annually and metal scouring pads made. In 1978/79 a second extensive restoration of the Gilardi House took place with the cooperation of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . The Schulenburg family has lived in England since 1996, from where they continued the company until it closed in 2006. The buildings were sold to the community.
Today, the Gilardi-Estate Allersberg development association is working with the community to ensure that the 3,000-square-meter property is used appropriately in the future. The renovations began in November 2012, are expected to take around five years and cost around 7.5 million euros.
On June 30, 2018, the 'Jacob Gilardi Company Exhibition' was opened in the rooms of the former factory. The objects on display, such as original paintings by the Gilardis, original documents, machines and decorations, belong to the 'Gilardi Foundation, Family Geiershoefer / Schulenburg - Markt Allersberg' founded in 2011.
The Gilardistraße and Erik Vulture Hoefer Street remember the company to former owners.
literature
- 'Document 192: Erik and Magda Geiershoefer from Allersberg describe how NSDAP functionaries collect their property.' In Susanne Heim (editor): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Vol. 2: German Reich 1938 – August 1939 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2009, - 864 pp. - ISBN 978-3-486-58523-0
- Daniel Rehm: Else Geiershoefer - A fate in difficult times. In 125 years of St. Gertrud, Hamburg , Geschichtswerkstatt St. Gertrud, Hamburg 2010, - 130 p
- Ralf Rossmeissl and Konrad Bedal: "Shine & Glitzer", tinsel - Christmas tree decorations from Roth & Allersberg . In the publications and catalogs of the Franconian Open Air Museum, vol. 39 . Verlag Fränkisches Freilandmuseum, Bad Windsheim 2002, - 176 pages - ISBN 3-926834-53-6
- Robert Unterburger: Life pictures from eight centuries - 100 personalities from the district of Roth . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2001, - 219 pages - ISBN 3-9801169-9-9
Individual evidence
- ^ Page of the Friends of the Gilardi Estate Allersberg , accessed on September 6, 2011
- ↑ Information on the Allersberg market town ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 6, 2011
- ^ Genealogical page of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, accessed September 6, 2011
- ↑ stumbling blocks in Hamburg: Else vultures Hoefer
- ↑ collection Geier family Hoefer / Schulenburg: Archive / GE / WI / 4
- ^ Page of the Friends of the Gilardi Estate Allersberg , accessed on November 22, 2012
- ↑ Allersberg opens the future wire and Christmas tree decoration museum in the Gilardihaus with a ceremony , accessed on July 5, 2018
- ^ Gilardi company: Foundation wants to make historical exhibits accessible to the public , accessed on July 5, 2018
