Kraft-Behrens

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Kraft-Behrens was a watch manufacturer based in Leipzig .

The Kraft-Behrens company was founded in Leipzig in 1891 by Adolph Kraft-Behrens as a manufacturer of watch cases . The watch cases, which were awarded prizes at various exhibitions, were completed with purchased movements and some were also sold with self-marked movements . The letter “B” on a flag or the word “Hecht” on a fish was used as the word mark . Furthermore, Kraft-Behrens operated an extensive watch and jewelry trade in its own sales rooms in various cities; An extensive export of finished watches abroad (including to Arabia) is also guaranteed. Around 1900 around 25,000 watches were produced annually, which makes the company one of the largest contemporary watch manufacturers in Leipzig.

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Since the Kraft-Behrens company also advertised the delivery of loose watch movements around 1910, it can be assumed that watch movements were also manufactured at that time. In 1909, a multi-storey company building with a separate cabinet joinery and its own railway connection was completed in Leipzig's Katzbachstrasse. A watch from around 1930 proves that the Kraft-Behrens company still existed around 1930. In that year, Kraft-Behrens is listed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Polyphonwerke AG , Leipzig- Wahren , with a share capital of 100,000 Reichsmarks ; another subsidiary of this company was Deutsche Grammophon .

Remarks

  1. ^ Addresses: Leipzig-Gohlis, Lindenstrasse 8 (1892); Leipzig, Apelstrasse 4 (1899); Leipzig, Katzbachstraße 5 (1913), cf. Schmid, HH, Lexicon of the German Watch Industry, p. 491.
  2. ^ Förderkreis Lebendiges Uhrenindustriemuseum eV: word mark list ( memorial from October 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ cf. Schmid, HH, Lexicon of the German Watch Industry, p. 491.
  4. ↑ cf. Salewski, Wilhelm, Foreign Capital in the German Economy. Subsidiaries, equity investments and option rights as of the beginning of August 1930. Essen: Ruhrverlag W. Girardet 2. A. 1930, p. 70.

literature

  • Hans-Heinrich Schmid : Lexicon of the German watch industry 1850–1980: company addresses, production program, company logos, brand names, company histories. (3rd expanded edition 2017); Editor: German Society for Chronometry eV; ISBN 978-3-941539-92-1
  • Tuesday, Paul: The German watch industry Friedrich Mauthe, Schlenker & Kienzle, Bürk Söhne, Hamburg-America. Uhrfabrik, Schramberger Uhrfederfabrik, u. Kraft Behrens Uhrenfabrik Leipzig, excerpt from the 25th anniversary. Reg.-Jubilee Wilhelm II . Berlin 1913.

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