Otto Weinhold Jr.
The art furniture factory Otto Weinhold jr was a furniture factory in Olbernhau in the Ore Mountains . It was one of the first German furniture factories, which in the late 19th century replaced the age of handcraft-oriented furniture production with machine production.
history
Otto Weinhold founded the art furniture factory Otto Weinhold jr in 1879 . The addition "Junior" was used to distinguish it from his father Carl Gottlieb Weinhold's craft business. The first factory building with a steam engine and its own power supply was built in 1884. Further structural measures followed in 1905 with a building for offices, furniture exhibition and storage. The number of employees was 100. In 1910, near the Olbernhau train station on the Pockau-Lengefeld-Neuhausen railway line , the concrete building was built on Lindenstrasse. Otto Weinhold died in 1912 at the age of 57. The company was continued by his wife and four sons, Albert, Carl, Paul and Edwin. Albert Weinhold became the technical director. In 1929 300 people were employed. The company existed as a family business until the end of 1943. In 1944 the NSFK and the Heyn organization confiscated the armaments production facility. The new beginning as a furniture factory began in mid-May 1945. In 1972 the company was expropriated by the GDR and continued as a state-owned company . Attempts at reprivatisation after reunification failed. In 1993, the trust handed over the operation of an employee company, Möwo GmbH , which went bankrupt after a year.
Products
After eight years of wandering in Germany, the company founder had gained extensive knowledge of furniture production in the handicraft businesses of the time and saw the future in the mechanical production of complete residential furnishings. Furniture from the production program from around 1900 has been preserved in museums ( Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden ), at international auctions and as catalog images. They prove the variety of models in “Gothic”, “ Renaissance ”, “ Modern Renaissance ”, “ Baroque ”, but especially in “ Art Nouveau ”. In the 1920s Otto Weinhold Jr. developed combinable bookcases, the forerunners of the " living walls ". After the company was confiscated in 1944, the hulls of the Heinkel 162 S , a two-seater training glider, were produced in the “Lindenstrasse” furniture factory . In mid-May 1945, after the war relics had been destroyed, furniture production was resumed. Otto Weinhold Jr. supplied furniture for the Intourist hotels in Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig in the 1950s , as did the study of the Saxon Prime Minister Max Seydewitz (1892–1987). Until the expropriation in 1972, the product range was focused on a single piece of furniture in large numbers for the Soviet Union, the "Dessau" display case .
literature
- Ian Bennet: Decorative Arts 1890-1940 . Luxembourg 1981, p. 212
- Wolfgang Weinhold: Portrait of an art furniture factory . HK wood and plastic processing, DRW-Verlag Weinbrenner GmbH & Co KG, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 1988 HK 10 and HK 11
- Peter Petrick: The training aircraft for the last contingent . JET & PROP, No. 4, 1994
- Helmut Flade: Olbernhau - Otto Weinhold's furniture. Design and publishing house Olbernhau . 1999, pp. 72-80
- Werner Fischer: 100 years of the city of Olbernhau . Druckerei Olbernhau, 2001, p. 26, p. 48–49
- Siegfried A. Weinhold : Otto Weinhold jr - art furniture factory 1879–1972 - Olbernhau / Erzgebirge . Jülich 2005, ISBN 3-00-015706-9
Web links
- Furniture factory Otto Weinhold jr. on the website of the city of Olbernhau