Niendorf grand piano and piano factory

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Niendorf grand piano and piano factory
legal form GmbH
founding July 25, 2014
Seat Luckenwalde , Brandenburg
management Mingtong Zheng, Markus Ernicke
Number of employees 23
Branch Musical instruments
Website www.niendorf-piano.de

The German Niendorf wing and piano factory goes on a founded more than a century piano - manufacturing back. It is based in Luckenwalde (State of Brandenburg).

history

Foundation and advancement

Hermann and Karl Niendorf founded in 1896 in Luckenwalde a musical instrument factory, initially Niendorf & Hemprich , specializing in tree trimming and salon wings and pianos . From the beginning of the 20th century, 30 percent of the products were sold in Germany and 70 percent all over the world (mainly South America). The brand name Gebr. Niendorf was introduced in 1900.

Former "grand piano and piano factory Gebr. Niendorf" in Luckenwalde

In 1921 the original factory burned down almost completely, so that the company started again in 1922 on a 45,000 m² property in the newly created industrial area of ​​Luckenwalde. For this purpose the Gebr. Niendorf Pianofortefabrik AG was founded. In 1929, like other renowned German manufacturers, the company joined Deutsche Piano-Werke AG , a merger of several manufacturers with the aim of standardizing certain work processes in order to better survive the difficult economic situation as a result of the global economic crisis . The production sites of Piano-Werke AG were in Luckenwalde and later also in Braunschweig . Two years later, Hermann Niendorf and Max Niendorf broke away from the association and had the company Gebr. Niendorf (without the addition of a stock corporation) re-entered in the commercial register.

During the Nazi era , the brothers had to file for bankruptcy, they were taken over by Riese, Hallmann & Co. in 1938 , the already well-known brand name Gebrüder Niendorf was retained.

Between 1945 and 1990

Under the direction of the VEB Deutsche Piano Union Leipzig , Gebr. Niendorf was forcibly nationalized in the GDR in 1974 . The production of high-quality instruments was continued and these were exported to the USA , Asia , Western Europe and the USSR , among others . The pianos and grand pianos were named Niendorf , Hupfeld , Gerbstädt , Rönisch , Zimmermann , Steinbach , Fuchs & Möhr and Alexander Herrmann . These previous smaller factories were merged in the following years. The annual production could be increased to approx. 3000 instruments.

During the 1985 Vogtland Music Days, deserving workers in the musical instrument industry received the honorary award for outstanding achievements in musical instrument making in the German Democratic Republic . The collective of piano makers, technologists and designers from the Luckenwalde division of the VEB Deutsche Piano-Union Leipzig received the 2nd class prize. This honored the services to the development of the Zimmermann 145 grand piano model and the high level of quality achieved in this way, which was recognized, among other things, by a gold medal from the Leipzig trade fair .

Since 1990

After German reunification , in the 1990s, the Märkische Pianofabrik started as a trust company with the brand name Niendorf, only to be taken over a little later by the Leipziger Pianofortefabrik as Märkisches Werk Luckenwalde. In 1995 the Märkische Werk was to be given up, but was bought up in 1996 by the former employee and commercial manager, Regina Rotsch, and revived as Rotsch grand piano and piano manufacture . However, the main client, the Leipzig plant, filed for bankruptcy just a few months later.

From 2000 to 2005 the company was managed by husband Hennig Rotsch and their daughter, Christina Rotsch. New instruments were delivered to previous business partners in the USA .

In 2014, the former employee and piano and harpsichord maker Markus Ernicke took over the company. Under his leadership, pianos and grand pianos made in Germany were again manufactured from 2015, and in the following years production and the number of employees were steadily expanded.

Instruments

Currently (as of February 2018) around 60 instruments are manufactured per year by 23 employees. Its portfolio ranges from pianos in sizes 118 and 123 cm above wing with 145 CI, 172er, 227er length and since September 2017 also features a 275er grand piano . The Niendorf company has demonstrably only been installing components from German origin since 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Bethmann: The supply of the world with musical instruments , p. 95. [1]
  2. ↑ Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau - Volume 52 - Page 468: [2]