Knight work
| ritterwerk GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1905 |
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Groebenzell , Germany
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| management | Michael Schüller, managing director |
| Branch | Small household appliances |
| Website | www.ritterwerk.de |
The ritterwerk GmbH is a 1905 by Franz Ritter in Sendling , a district of the Bavarian state capital Munich , established German manufacturer of small household appliances . Production takes place in Gröbenzell near Munich.
The design of the company's products, which was decisively shaped by Karl Dittert for almost 40 years , is based on the design principles of the Bauhaus and has been awarded numerous design prizes for this. The devices from ritterwerk GmbH can be found today as exhibits in national and international museums of everyday culture and design museums.
history
The company was founded in Sendling in 1905 under the name F. Ritter & Sohn . In the early years, the company founder Franz Ritter and his son developed a device for removing rust from cutlery . A special feature of this machine was that brushes were used instead of the leather commonly used , which the knives often cut. The company patented the brush and knife cleaning machine .
Due to the growth of the company, it moved to Pasing in 1912 . The company grew from 1914 with 25 workers to 130 by the end of the 20s of the 20th century. During the First World War , the company was forced to switch production from 1915 to the manufacture of garnet cases. After the war, production was resumed and at the beginning of the 1920s, over 100,000 pieces of the brush knife cleaning machine were sold .
As a result of the effects of the global economic crisis in 1928/29 , the number of employees fell to just six. Due to the emergence of rust-free stainless steel , the patent for the brush knife cleaning machine also lost its importance. As an alternative, Franz Ritter developed other devices. The first bread slicer B50 , still operated with a hand crank , was launched on the market in 1932. As a result, further patents were registered and approved. The company's founder Franz Ritter died in 1938. His daughter and her husband Hans Koch continued to run the company. During the Second World War , gas mask containers had to be manufactured in the plant.
Production resumed after the war. The Schneidboy , developed in 1949 and an item that received the If product design award in 1955 , has sold over 10 million times worldwide. The company presented the first electric cutting machine and the first built-in cutting machine in 1968, which went into production that same year. The son of the founder Hans Koch was in 1969 in the retirement . As a result of the restructuring, the company was sold to the owners of the electrical appliance manufacturer Braun , and only one year later it was renamed ritterwerk GmbH .
The company building in Pasing became too small in 1982, which is why the decision was made to move. The company and its 150 employees moved to Gröbenzell near Munich. The Pasinger Factory culture and community center is located in the company's former factory halls .
The company regularly participates with its products in international product and design fairs, such as a. at the Interior Lifestyle and the consumer goods fair ambiente .
The products of ritterwerk GmbH can be found in the various national and international design museums and museums of everyday culture, such as the Red Dot Design Museum Singapore; in the Red Dot Museum Essen, in the German Historical Museum , the Grassi Museum for Applied Art and the Museum for Applied Art in Cologne .
equipment
The company's product range from the 1930s to the 1950s was characterized by crank-operated bread slicers , which had been manufactured with great success since the early 1930s, supplemented by numerous small appliances, such as strawberry tongs, a radish cutter, a dicing machine for bread and vegetables, a cutting and meat boy or a lemon schnitzel press. The ritterwerk GmbH develops and manufactures small electrical appliances since 1968, which can also be built into kitchen drawers because of their space-saving design. In addition, floor-standing devices and the ritter potato peeler were produced, which is also widespread internationally - especially on the Japanese market - and of which over 100,000 pieces can be sold per year.
Built-in food slicers and slicing machines became increasingly important in the product range. The product designer Karl Dittert designed several devices for the company. In terms of their style and functionality, these were based on the Bauhaus design of the 1920s and won several design awards from 1967 to 2005. The devices of ritterwerk GmbH are developed and manufactured exclusively in Germany. Today this represents a unique selling point in the field of household appliances.
Industrial designer Martin Dettinger has been responsible for product development at ritterwerk GmbH since 2010 . At present, the company next to kitchen small appliances in the Bauhaus style, as slicer, toaster , kettle , coffee machine and hand blender and complete installation systems with kitchen utensils ago.
Awards (selection)
- 1955 iF Product Design Award ( Schneidboy )
- 1955 iF Product Design Award ( slicer B 70 )
- 1973/1974/1975 Prize of the Design Center Stuttgart
- 1979 Federal award "Gute Form" ( built-in all-purpose slicer E 22 vario )
- 1982 Prize of the Design Center Stuttgart "German Selection 1982" ( Superschneider E 30 vario electronic )
- 1985 Prize of the Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia ( food slicer E 25 )
- 1986 Prize of the Design Center Stuttgart "German Selection 1986" ( electric slicer E 23 metal )
- 1987 Prize of the Haus Industrieform Essen "Design Innovations ´87" ( Slicer E 23 metal l)
- 2001 interzum award ( AES 62 )
- 2002 International Design Award Baden-Württemberg ( E 21 Brushcutter Diagonal )
- 2005 TOP 100
- 2008 Red Dot Design Award (food slicer contura 3 )
- 2011 iF Product Design Award ( Toaster volcano 5 )
- 2011 IHK training award Dachau-Fürstenfeldbruck 2011
- 2013 Red Dot Design Award ( kettle fontana 5 )
- 2014 Der Blaue Engel ( Toaster volcano / built-in toaster, kettle fontana 5 )
- 2015 iF Design Award ( kettle fontana 5 )
- 2015 iF Design Award (slicer icaro7)
- 2015 Red Dot Award: Product Design ( Allesschneider sono 5 )
- 2016 The Blue Angel ( coffee machine cafena 5 )
literature
- Thomas Hasselwander; Helmut Ebert: Pasinger Archive. Photographic highlights of a year in Pasing, combined with images from days gone by , Pasinger Archive, 1986
- History workshop working u. Leben in Pasing eV: traces of contributions to the history of Pasing , Profil Verlag GmbH, 1989, pp. 197–196
- Lothar Beckmann: So much average , Stiftung Warentest, 12/2008, pp. 68–73
- More beautiful roasting , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 29 August 2010, p. V 7
- Jan Stoll: Ten electric slicers put to the test - slicer or slicer? , Haus & Garten, 6/2011, pp. 36–42
- Jan Stoll: Information on the test winner - Ritter Serano 7 , Haus & Garten, 6/2011, p. 43
- Andreas Jalsovec: Bauhaus for the kitchen , Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 4, 2012, p. 18
- Harriet Austen: Lifestyle in the kitchen , The IHK magazine for Munich and Upper Bavaria, October 2013, pp. 46–47
- Gerhard Eisenkolb: Made in Groebenzell , Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 24, 2014, p. R 9
- Phillip Stelzner: From 0 to 80 in three minutes , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 27, 2015, p. T 4
- Jan Stoll: Talented Cutters , House & Garden, 5/2015, pp. 56–61
- Mirko Borsche: Mirko Borsch tests a cutting machine that cuts too well , Zeit Magazin, December 23, 2015, p. 63
- Bert Gamerschlag: Discrete Charm , Stern, February 16, 2017, p. 122
- Susanne Schwind: A box office hit from Groebenzell , Münchner Merkur, September 8, 2017, p. 4
- Pasinger Archive. Photographic highlights from a Pasinger year, combined with pictures from past days, Pasinger Archiv e. V., 2018, pp. 51–52
- D. Soppoth: Allesschneider or Aufschneider , ETM Testmagazin, 05/2018, pp. 47–89
Web links
- official homepage of ritterwerke GmbH
- Landschaftsverband Rheinland - everyday culture: kitchen appliances from ritterwerk gmbh
- German Historical Museum: Schneidboy kitchen utensil
- Tradition in Germany: Kitchen gadgets Made in Germany
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ritterwerk - Sharp thing Allesschneider >> tradition-in-deutschland.de. Retrieved October 26, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Clara Ebert: The kitchen and the kitchen appliances . In: The kitchen of the future on a meatless basis . Emil Pahl, 1927.
- ↑ ritter - at home in the kitchen. Retrieved October 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Register information . Word mark "Schneidboy". German Patent and Trademark Office , September 8, 2004, accessed October 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Michael Erlhoff, Bernd Busch: Designed in Germany since 1949 . Ed .: German Design Council. Prestel, Munich 1990, p. 195 .
- ^ Traces: Contributions to the history of Pasing . In: History workshop work and life in Pasing (Ed.): Bavarian writings . tape 1 . Profil, Pasing 1989, ISBN 978-3-89019-235-2 , pp. 196 .
- ↑ Device for squeezing segmental fruit slices . July 30, 1931 ( google.com [accessed October 26, 2018]).
- ^ Christian Marquart: Industrial culture, industrial design: a piece of German economic and design history . Ed .: Association of German Industrial Designers. Ernst & Sohn, 1993, ISBN 978-3-433-02343-3 , pp. 94 f .
- ↑ The Allesschneider - A blockbuster from Groebenzell . In: https://www.merkur.de . September 8, 2017 ( merkur.de [accessed October 26, 2018]).
- ↑ German peeler is cult in Japan . In: OpenPR.de . ( openpr.de [accessed on October 26, 2018]).
- ^ Günter Kupetz: Industrial Design . Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7643-7814-1 , p. 178 .
- ↑ Martin Dettinger Industrial Design - Profile. Retrieved October 26, 2018 .
- ↑ ritter - at home in the kitchen product range. Retrieved October 26, 2018 .
- ↑ ifworlddesignguide.com: Schneidboy. 1955, accessed October 26, 2018 .
- ↑ ifworlddesignguide.com: Slicer B70. Retrieved October 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Worlddesignguide.com: Volcano 5. Accessed October 26, 2018 (English).
- ↑ ifworlddesignguide.com: Allesschneider Icaro 7. Accessed October 26, 2018 (English).