Magnus Merck

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Magnus Merck († 1930 ) was a German entrepreneur , Hof - photographer and inventor .

Life

In 1900, Magnus Merck and Julius Rosenstein ran their photo company in the corner building at Georgstrasse 8 on Schillerstrasse, which continued to the right.
"The four directors of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium ": Wachsmuth , Mücke, Bösch and Groebe;
Postcard from Merck, 1925

Magnus Merck and Julius Rosenstein ran a company shortly after the turn of the century under the name of M. Merck in Hanover, which also traded in accessories. The business premises were at Georgstrasse 8 on the corner of Schillerstrasse. At the time of the Weimar Republic , Merck operated as “Hofphotograph M. Merck” under the old business address.

Around 1904, Rosenstein and Merck applied for a patent under the number R. 19906 for an “extinguishing device for wick lamps consisting of a fire disc moved by a two-armed lever” .

To mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover , a postcard was published, published by Merck , showing the first four directors of this school.

Magnus Merck was a member of the Hanover Photographers Guild .

Web links

Commons : Magnus Merck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nachrichtenblatt für das Photographenhandwerk , Volume 38, 1931, p. 177
  2. ↑ a b Compare the reverse of a picture postcard (AK) produced in 1925 by the Merck publishing house
  3. ↑ a b c Patentblatt , published by the Imperial Patent Office , Vol. 29, Part 2, C. Heymanns Verlag, 1905, pp. 1089, 1496; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Compare, for example, the German basic map , Hanover, 1: 5000, around the 1940s
  5. ↑ See The Photographic Dealer and D. & P. ​​Trade Review ... (in English), Vol. 16, Photographic Dealer Limited, 1904, p. 83; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Merck, Magnus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court photographer in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 1930