Gadamer & Hunter

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Gadamer & Jäger was an important German match manufacturer in Dittersbach near Waldenburg ( Province of Silesia ; later Province of Lower Silesia ).

history

Gadamer & Jäger was founded on September 1, 1869 by the entrepreneur and Waldenburg city councilor Oskar Gadamer and the master bricklayer and later hard coal mine owner Carl Jäger and, based on the order of September 2, was entered in the company directory of the responsible royal district court on September 3, 1869.

In the annual reports of the chambers of commerce and commercial corporations of the Prussian state: In 1869 it was read that Gadamer & Jäger succeeded in equating the standard of Swedish safety matches ( Gustaf Erik Pasch and Karl Frantz Lundström completely replaced white phosphorus with red phosphorus in 1844) develop and bring them to market much more cheaply than the imported goods. The annual reports of the chambers of commerce and commercial corporations of the Prussian state for 1871 show that the two “mainly manufacturing” Silesian factories of the said division Gadamer & Jäger and Gierth & Ergmann in Paczków only managed to sell half of their production in Germany in 1871 the other half went to East India , China , Japan and South America , where there was then great demand for so-called "Swedish woods". The company originally registered as "Zündwarenfabrik" was run around 1896 as a "chemical factory".

As part of the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 , Gadamer & Jäger received a recognition diploma from the international jury and was listed as a brand in the Austrian Brand Gazette in 1887 . As early as 1882, the company had brand protection on three types of matches. In the same year "Oscar Gadamer" published an article in the monthly Chemische Industrie about innovations in match loading machines . In 1883, Gamader applied for the corresponding German Patent (DP) No. 19491. In 1883 Gadamer & Jäger also asked for duty exemption for aspen wood .

Gadamer & Jäger was also present at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 . Negotiations between the company and the St. Gallen trade association in Switzerland are documented in 1886 . Membership in the Association for the Protection of the Interests of the Chemical Industry in Germany (now the Association of the Chemical Industry ) in 1879 is also documented.

In 1909 Gadamer & Jäger received the tax number for ignition goods manufacturers number "68a". In 1929 ( Great Depression ) the Mitteldeutsche Zündholzfabriken AG in Hamburg also acquired the Gadamer & Jäger company and leased it to Stahl & Nölke AG . A year later, the Reichstag issued the ignition goods monopoly .

Regional money

Gadamer & Jäger also issued regional money. In Piotr Kalinowski's book about money from the town of Wałbrzych, published in 2011, there is a 1000 Mark coin (Marek) with the inscription "Gadamer & Jäger - Waldenburgs Tändsticksfabrik".

The founders

Oskar Gadamer , also Oscar Gadamer , (born August 6, 1831 in Ober Gläsersdorf , Lüben district ; † July 2, 1887 in Waldenburg ) was a German entrepreneur and city councilor.

Oskar Gadamer was the grandfather of the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer and the father of the chemist Johannes Gadamer , who came from his marriage to Anna Gadamer, née Puschmann (1832–1909). He himself was originally of a Catholic faith, but probably converted to the Protestant faith on the occasion of his wedding. His son Johannes wrote in his dissertation in 1895 that he was brought up "in the evangelical faith".

According to the obituaries of his relatives at the time, Oskar Gadamer died on July 2, 1887 at 4:30 a.m. after a long, severe suffering at the age of 55.

Carl Hunter , also Charles Hunter , was a skilled bricklayer champion , entrepreneurs and city council. He was also a board member of the Silesia section of the brickworks trade association .

Jäger founded the civil engineering company Carl Jäger & Sohn in Waldenburg . In addition to founding Gadamer & Jäger, he was also the owner of the Waldenburg company Jägers-Zubehör . A mining award for hard coal extraction on a nearly 211 hectare field in Gaablau and Liebersdorf ( Landeshut district ) on June 28, 1873 on the suggestion of December 21, 1871 by this company is documented in the official gazette of the Prussian government in Liegnitz of July 19, 1873.

Among other things, it is documented about the construction company Carl Jäger & Sohn that it won over from the chairman of the Arts and Crafts Association for Wroclaw and the Province of Silesia , the royal court painter Hans Rumsch , to work free of charge and erect two buildings as part of the special exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Association in Wroclaw in 1904 could be. At the time of National Socialism , the company was one of the construction companies that were commissioned with the construction of makeshift homes for the German Housing Fund.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gadamer & Jäger, Dittersbach / Waldenburg (D170) , http://www.zuendholzschachteln.de .
  2. ^ Entry by the company Gadamer and Jäger in: Journal for the entire political science - supplementary booklet, volumes 44-48, H. Laupp'sche Buchhandlung, 1912, p. 136. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  3. ↑ a b Königlich Preußischer Staats-Anzeiger: 1869, 7–9, p. 3538 , Decker, 1869.
  4. ↑ Annual reports of the chambers of commerce and commercial corporations of the Prussian state: 1869. v. Decker , 1870, p. 393.
  5. ↑ Annual reports of the Chambers of Commerce and commercial corporations of the Prussian State for 1871. [Supplement to the 1872 year of the Prussian Trade Archive], Königliche Geheime Hof-Buchdruckerei, Berlin 1872, p. 266.
  6. ↑ Nikolaus Heinrich Schilling , Eugen Schilling : Dr. NH Schilling's statistical reports on the gas companies in Germany. R. Oldenbourg, 1896, p. 348.
  7. ↑ Official directory of the exhibitors who have been awarded prizes by the international jury: World Exhibition 1873 in Vienna Verlag der General-Direction, 1873, p. 82.
  8. ^ Official catalog of the exhibition of the German Reich. , Königliche Geheime Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei, 1873, p. 131.
  9. ↑ Österreichischer Markenanzeiger , 1887, p. 287.
  10. ↑ Chemiker-Zeitung, Volume 2. 1882, p. 840.
  11. ^ Die Chemische Industrie, Volume 5. , 1882, p. 356.
  12. ^ R. Gaertner: Innovations about match loading machines. In: Chemisch-Technische Repertorium, Volume 21. 1883, p. 179.
  13. ↑ Negotiations of the Reichstag, Volume 73. Norddeutsche Buchdruckerei und Verlags-Anstalt, 1883, p. 1046.
  14. ↑ International Exhibition, 1876: Official Catalog, part 4. JR Nagle, 1876, p. 317.
  15. ^ Negotiations of the Association for the Promotion of Industrial Industry , Association for the Promotion of Industrial Industry, 1886, p. 9.
  16. ↑ Die Chemische Industrie, Volume 2. Professional Association of the Chemical Industry , Verlag Chemie, 1879, p. 105.
  17. ↑ The tax numbers assigned to ignition goods producers in Germany , www.zuendholzetiketten.de.
  18. ^ Rudolf Gunzert , Bernhard Benning , Edmund Veesenmayer : Stock exchange and economics. Securities market and economy. Fischer, Jena 1929, p. 27.
  19. ↑ Piotr Kalinowski: Pieniądz miasta Wałbrzych , Verlag PK, 2011, p. 52. ISBN 8-361-75594-2 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  20. ↑ Biography in: Jean Grondin : Hans-Georg Gadamer - A biography. 1999, p. 17. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  21. ^ Johannes Gadamer: Contributions to the knowledge of thiosinamine and its Halogenadditiionsproducte. [Diss.], University of Marburg , 1895, p. 90.
  22. ↑ No. 45/1887 , obituary at: Ahnenforschung.net.
  23. ↑ DPA 26642 "Innovations an Coksöfen" from November 18, 1880.
  24. ↑ in: Tonindustrie-Zeitung, Volume 28, Part 1, 1904, p. 867.
  25. ↑ Company entries, e.g. B. in: Deutsche Bau-Zeitung , Volume 26, Kommissionsverlag von Carl Beelitz, 1892, p. 596 and in: Tonindustrie-Zeitung, Volume 37, 1913, p. 541.
  26. ↑ Ordinances and notices of various authorities. In: Official Gazette of the Prussian Government in Liegnitz, No. 29, Government in Liegnitz, July 19, 1873, p. 2.
  27. ↑ in: Jerzy Ilkosz , Beate Störtkuhl (ed.): Hans Poelzig in Breslau. Architecture and Art 1900–1916. Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu (ed.), Aschenbeck & Holstein, Delmenhorst 2000, p. 357. ISBN 3-932-29230-8 .
  28. ↑ Frank Stier: War order 160. Makeshift home construction in the Litzmannstadt ghetto (Łódź) and in the Königs Wusterhausen subcamp by the German Housing Fund. Edition 2, Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1999, p. 53. ISBN 3-922-91247-8 .