Arno Fischer porcelain factory

Former factory building

The Arno Fischer porcelain factory was a German porcelain manufacturer that existed in Ilmenau ( Thuringia ) from 1906 to 1974 . It was the smallest of the four Ilmenau porcelain factories.

history

The factory was founded on December 4th, 1906 by Arno Fischer in Ilmenau. She moved to the former Friedrichstrasse (today Fischerweg after the factory founder Arno Fischer) in the east of Ilmenau, a little north of the train station . The factory building is on a slope so that its representative facade can be seen from afar. In 1937 the factory had over 100 employees, between 1945 and 1974 around 125 people worked in the factory.

Arno Fischer produced numerous different items, including many figures , knickknacks , lamps , sanitary equipment (wash basins and toilet bowls), vases and advertising bowls, but later also common household porcelain .

From 1921 Arno Fischer ran the company together with his son, Gerhard Fischer, who was the sole owner of the company after the Second World War . However, he saw no future for his factory in the framework of the planned economy and therefore left the GDR in 1950. Thereupon the porcelain factory fell to the trust administration , which converted it into a state-owned company in 1952 and renamed it "VEB Ilmenauer Zier- und Werbeporzellanfabrik". On January 1, 1961, the VEB was incorporated into the Henneberg porcelain combine . When the Kombinat moved into its new factory premises at Eichicht in Ilmenau in 1973 , Arno Fischer's old factory was closed in 1974.

The factory building is still preserved today. It was converted into a tenement house and is a listed building .

literature

• Claudia Fiala: Porcelain manufacture in Ilmenau - tradition and diversity , in: Ilmenau - contributions to the history of a city . Frankenschwelle publishing house, Hildburghausen 1998, ISBN 3-86180-043-8 .
• See also the list of porcelain manufacturers and manufacturers

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 12 ″  N , 10 ° 55 ′ 21 ″  E