Pirner & Franz

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Senior citizens' residence in the renovated former art foundry Pirner & Franz, as it was in 2009
Art foundry Pirner & Franz, condition 2008

Pirner & Franz was in the 19th century in Dresden , founded Art and Erzgießerei and Royal Saxon Hoflieferantin for sculptures and equipment from bronze .

history

Monument by Johann Smidt in Bremerhaven
The Soviet memorial in Dresden , made by Pirner & Franz immediately after the war, photographed by Abraham Pisarek in 1947
The Ernst Thälmann Memorial in Weimar , inaugurated in 1958, comes from the ore foundry Pirner & Franz '

The company was founded in the early days of the German Empire in 1881 and was temporarily based in the - today - Dresden district of Löbtau .

After the company under its owner JE Franz with exhibits in 1914 at the exhibition of the German Work Federation in Cologne had taken part, the art foundry in the last year of was the First World War in 1918 by the first since 1911 producing in Dresden's Neustadt art foundry Oswald Haberland taken.

In the early years of the Weimar Republic , Haberland employed up to 45 workers in his company, but dissolved the Dresden company in the course of the global economic crisis of 1928 to 1930 and initially relocated to the free port of Hamburg .

Nevertheless, Pirner & Franz obviously continued to produce in the Saxon capital until the air raids on Dresden during the Second World War made parts of the company a victim of aerial bombs . However, since the Soviet military commanders demanded “ their victory memorial ”, they initially ordered the roof to be repaired by decree so that the Pirner & Franz company could then produce the memorial that was later placed in front of the Military History Museum .

At the time of the German Democratic Republic , Pirner & Franz was first nationalized and finally expropriated in 1972 - as were the former companies Schinder & Meisel and Frost from Radeberg and Großröhrsdorf , which specialize in gray cast iron , as well as the Dresden hat factory , which specializes in the modeling and casting of hat shapes , with which Pirner & Franz has now been merged while saving personnel.

After the peaceful revolution in autumn 1989 , the newly founded GmbH in 1990 became the so-called Hoffmann GmbH Dresden from 2014 .

Famous works

literature

  • Paul Schumann: The ore foundry Pirner & Franz (owner Oswald Haberland) in Dresden , 30 pages, Dresden: Laubedruck, 1922

Archival material

Archival materials from and about the art foundry Pirner & Franz can be found, for example

See also

Web links

Commons : Pirner & Franz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d o.V. : E. & H. Haberland / Bronzegießerei / Hanover N / Bohnhorstrasse 5 / Fernruf 71592 in: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover 1954. With textual and editorial assistance from Heinz Lauenroth (director of the municipal press office), Ewald Brix ( industrial and Chamber of Commerce Hanover ), Herbert Mundhenke (City Archives Council) and the Chamber of Crafts Hanover , Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, Hanover 1954, p. 333
  2. ^ A b Official catalog of the German Werkbund exhibition in Cologne 1914 , 1914, pp. 167, 169; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ a b c d Gerd Göttermann: Formguss Dresden GmbH / Company / The Hoffmann GmbH Dresden introduces itself on the formguss-dresden.de page , last accessed on March 31, 2017
  4. ↑ Compare the captioning on the digital copy donated by the German Federal Archives at Commons
  5. ↑ Compare the information in the database of the Kalliope network


Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 30.6 ″  N , 13 ° 41 ′ 30.9 ″  E