Furniture fabric weaving mill Cammann & Co.
The upholstery fabric weaving mill Cammann & Co. is a German weaving mill that was founded in Chemnitz in 1886 by Paul Cammann and Richard Krüger .
Company history
The company was founded in 1886 by Franz Paul Cammann and his financier and partner August Wilhelm Richard Krüger at Chemnitzer Ziegelstraße 16 and specialized in weaving with mechanical looms . The company experienced a rapid upswing and, after participating in international trade fairs, soon received orders from North America, England and the Arab world. This meant that production could soon be expanded from 14 to 60 looms. In 1919 it was converted into a stock corporation . Paul Schönherr, the son of Louis Schönherr , became Chairman of the Supervisory Board . The range of products included damasks , furniture plush , chariot rips , double moquettes ,Silk and brocade velours as well as tapestries . These luxury fabrics were mainly bought by wealthy classes of society and, in addition to upholstered furniture, were also used to cover the walls of state halls, salons, theaters or railway wagons. For example, first-class wagons of the Royal Saxon State Railways , the library of the express steamer Bremen or the palace of the Maharajah of Indore were equipped with fabrics from Chemnitz.
In the 1920s, the company moved to Blankenauer Strasse with the Cammann high-rise as an imposing administration building. Until the Second World War , the company was trend-setting for the industry. At the end of the war, large parts of the technology were dismantled and brought to the Soviet Union as reparations . The remaining workforce, under the direction of Director Walter Forchheim, rebuilt the company with the help of machines from destroyed factories and began producing fabrics again from 1948/49. Cammann & Co. Aktiengesellschaft was not able to survive due to the high tax burden of corporations in the Soviet occupation zone. In order to avoid the threat of expropriation, Cammann & Co.AG was converted into Cammann & CO limited partnership with state participation on May 31, 1954 in accordance with the provisions of the StÄVO of July 23, 1953. Walter Forchheim ran the company as a personally liable partner until his death in 1965. On the basis of a decision by the SED Politburo in 1972, the compulsory expropriation of the former owners was finally carried out. The company then operated under the name VEB Gobelin- und Mokett-Weberei Karl-Marx-Stadt until 1990.
After the fall of the Wall , the owners changed and there were eviction complaints in the own area. In 1996 the company was taken over as the Cammann Gobelin Manufactory by the two Chemnitz-based Karl-Heinz Otto and Elvi Adler, and in 1999 it moved to the Braunsdorf Museum Tannenhauer Weberei . Today the company supplies the complex woven fabrics to interior decorators and interior designers. During the renovation of the Berlin State Opera in 2010, Camman fabrics were used for curtains and upholstery, as was the renovation of the Moscow Kremlin . The company still produces according to fabric samples developed by Paul Cammann or reconstructs fabrics according to historical models. Due to the large number of original fabric samples, special historical patterns are always discovered here.
On August 1, 2014, Peggy Wunderlich and Torsten Bäz took over the Cammann Gobelin Manufactory as successors and continue to run it in the tried and tested textile tradition in conjunction with the latest technical materials.
Cammann high-rise
The Cammann high-rise was designed by the architect Willy Schönefeld as an administration building for the Cammann company and built by Otto Stäber from 1923 to 1926 . Paul Cammann moved into an apartment on the fifth floor. The 40 m high building with its eight floors was the first high-rise in Chemnitz and when it was completed it was the largest building in the city. The plastered reinforced concrete structure consists of five main floors with a floor area of 23 m × 14 m, on top of which there are two set-back floors on which another set-back floor with a pointed tower-like roof is enthroned. The facade of the high-rise, built in the Expressionist style, is folded and plastered with scratch-groove plaster. Parts of the interior are paneled with travertine . In 1996 there was a reconstruction based on the historical model.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul Cammann. (No longer available online.) Stadtstreicher, archived from the original on May 2, 2014 ; Retrieved April 24, 2014 . 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.
- ^ Cammann & Co. Akt.-Ges., Chemnitz. Retrieved April 24, 2014 .
- ↑ References. (No longer available online.) Cammann weaving mill, archived from the original on May 2, 2014 ; Retrieved April 24, 2014 . 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.
