Orionwerk (Hanover)

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Orionwerk Bülter & Stammer camera

The Orionwerk in Hanover was a German stock corporation founded in 1921 , which in advertisements referred to the founding year 1893 as "the oldest and largest camera factory in Northern Germany ". Predecessor companies were Glunz & Bülter , as well as Bülter and Stammer . The company went bankrupt in 1933 . The company's word and figurative mark was temporarily a sailing ship depicted within concentric circles at night under the stars on the high seas with waves and the words Orionwerk .

history

Glunz & Bülter

In 1893, Carpenter founded Hermann Glunz and the merchant Diedrich Bülter the first and only cameras - factory in the 19th century in Hanover. In the address book of the city of Hanover from 1894 , the company was named “Factory with steam operation. for photographic apparatus, Hdl. photographic supply type. every kind". They maintained entire “warehouses of all articles for photography” for their company in the then Kanalstrasse 9.Erioll world.svg The devices manufactured by Glunz & Bülter were initially made of wood, brass and leather, later also of metal. The range produced consisted of amateur and view cameras as well as recording accessories.

A preprinted photo cardboard carrier in cabinet format for the Boese & Schaefer studio in Posen is known from around 1898, with the additional print Glunz & Bülter on the reverse .

Bülter & Stammer

The Orion plant Bülter & Stammer was founded 1902nd

From 1914 the company was temporarily engaged in the production of armaments for the First World War .

In 1920, on June 6th of that year, Orionwerk Buelter & Stammer had applied for a patent for a device invented in-house to position the lens carrier sideways .

Also in 1920, Bülter & Stammer was succeeded by Orionwerk, Akt.-Ges. for photographic industry (AG) with all properties, all assets and liabilities .

The Deutsches Museum in Bonn and the ETH library in Zurich hold a company publication from the Bülter & Stammer camera factory . The Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo in São Paulo , Brazil , refers on its website to historical photographs that were taken with a camera from Bülter & Stammer .

Orionwerk AG

The Orionwerk, Akt.-Ges. für Photographic Industry (AG) was founded on September 8, 1921 and entered in the commercial register at the Hanover District Court on October 1 of the same year . However, the AG had already bought the Orionwerk Bülter & Stammer company in the previous year 1920 , so that the Orionwerk acted as early as January 1, 1921 for the account of the AG.

In the 1920s, the owner of the Orion factory was Friedrich Augstein , father of Rudolf Augstein , who at that time lived with his family at Podbielskistraße 310 (new house number in 2002: 105 ).

The multi-storey factory building of Orionwerk AG was located at Bothfelder Strasse 23 in the (present-day) Hanover district of List . The building is said to have previously been used by the Richter, Zahnärztliche Apparate company .

The German Federal Archives hold several annual reports for the period from 1924 to 1928 .

For the company played Victor Wolny , the 1922 one invention had logged an important role. Several Wolny patent applications can be viewed online via the European Patent Office :

  • dated February 1, 1924: Improvements to or in connection with single lens reflex cameras ;
  • dated February 10, 1925: improvements to or relating to single-lens reflex cameras ;
  • of April 1, 1931, with headquarters in Ferdinand-Wallbrecht-Strasse , and for Orionwerk AG (in English): Improvements in semi-automatic photographic devices .

Camera types

Orion and its predecessors produced all camera types common at the time, in particular plate cameras of various formats and roll film cameras. The models produced included Rio plate and roll film cameras, such as the large format camera Rio 85 for medium format 6 × 9 cm. In 1929 the company offered inexpensive cameras, including large format 9 × 12 cm. The Orion Klapp-Reflex camera in the large format 9 × 12 cm could also be used with a Zeiss Tele-Tessar lens 1: 6.3. An Orion Works camera was also described in the Manual of Scientific and Applied Photography .

literature

  • Willy Frerk: Photo friend yearbook 1925. 26th hardcover edition. Hackebeil-Verlag, Berlin 1926.
  • Ludwig Hoerner , Heinz A. Wanner: Photography - Orion Works AG. ed. from Club Daguerre , loose-leaf directory Hanover 1976.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d N.N .: Hanover. Orionwerk, Akt.-Ges. for the photographic industry. In: The photographic industry . Trade journal for trade, export and manufacture of all photographic and cinematographic commodities from May 3, 1922, p. 413f .; partially downloadable ( memento of January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) as a PDF document from ihagee.org , permanently available via Internet Archive
  2. ↑ Compare this newspaper advertisement
  3. ↑ Photo friend Yearbook 1925, p 203 [1]
  4. ↑ Lindener Gewerbe-Handel und Industriebetriebe from 1920–1964 , Linden-Limmer postcard archive, accessed on January 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ Compare the illustration at Emanuel Tuveri: Orion-Werk AG (see under the section Weblinks , but there the author of the website has overwritten the graphic with a copyright symbol and his own name)
  6. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner : Photographische Apparatefabriken und -handlungen , in ders .: Agents, Bader and Copisten. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . ed. from the Hannoversche Volksbank, Hannover: Reichold, 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , p. 368.
  7. ↑ NN:Poznań - Głogowska ulica nr 97 (approx. 1898)(Polish), on the page edu.pl of the 'Wielkopolska Kolekcja Ikonograficzna der Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Poznaniu , last accessed on January 27, 2015.
  8. ↑ Compare the table of contents of the loose-leaf collection Ludwig Hoerner, Heinz A. Wanner: Photography - Orion Werke AG ... (see under literature)
  9. ↑ Compare the information on google.com
  10. ^ NN: Stocks / Firmenenschriften / k on the deutsches-museum.de page , last accessed on January 28, 2015.
  11. ↑ In the Photographic Institute of the ETH, according to the serial number 209 under the heading Manuscripts and Autographs , last accessed on January 28, 2015.
  12. ↑ NN (Red.): [2] on the page brasilcultura.com.br , last accessed on January 28, 2015.
  13. ↑ Otto Köhler (editor), Monika Köhler (collaborator): Rudolf Augstein. A life for Germany. Munich: Droemer, 2002, ISBN 3-426-27253-9 , p. 339; Preview via google search
  14. ↑ ibid., P. 34.
  15. ↑ Photo illustration in: Paul Siedentopf (main editor ): Orionwerk Hannover / Aktiengesellschafr für Photographische Industrie. Factory photographic apparatus / Bothfelder Straße 23. In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927. With the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the image material), Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 56.
  16. ↑ Wolfgang Leonhardt : Hannoversche Histories: Reports from different districts , Working Group District History List, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8391-5437-3 , p. 154 f .; Preview of a photo of the Orion factory building (dated 1927) on Google Books
  17. ^ In the finding aid collection of annual reports & order signature: R 907/9892, heading: 1.14. O, title: Orionwerk, AG for the photographic industry, Hanover
  18. ^ Alfred Hay (ed.), Mas Haase, Kurt Michel (arr.): Handbook of scientific and applied photography. Supplement, Vienna: Julius Springer, 1943, passim ; partly online via Google books
  19. ↑ Bibliographic data: GB228572 (A) - 1925.11.19  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / worldwide.espacenet.com  
  20. ↑ Bibliographic data: GB238467 (A) - 1925.08.20  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / worldwide.espacenet.com  
  21. ↑ Bibliographical data: GB372057 (A) - 1932-05-05
  22. ↑ See also Willi Kerkmann: German cameras 1839–1945. 3rd, revised. Ed. With Erg., Ainring 2005, pp. 249-254.
  23. ↑ Photo friend Yearbook, 1925, S. 204 [3] [4]
  24. ↑ Photographic review and communications. Volume 66, 1929, page ix [5]
  25. ↑ Photo friend yearbook. 1925, p. 203 [6]
  26. ^ Alfred Hay, Moritz Rohr, Kurt Michel: Handbook of scientific and applied photography. Volume 2, Springer, Vienna 1931, p. 42, fig. 33

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