Rosenthal (company)
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1879 |
| Seat | Selb , Germany |
| management | Pierluigi Coppo |
| Number of employees | 900 (2012) |
| sales | 130 million euros (2008) |
| Branch | Housewares |
| Website | www.rosenthal.de |
The Rosenthal GmbH (until January 2010 still Rosenthal AG) is a German manufacturer of porcelain , glass and ceramics and other household goods . It has been part of the Italian Sambonet Paderno Industrie group since 2009 .
In addition to Rosenthal GmbH, there is now RAG Abwicklungs AG (formerly Rosenthal AG) and RSH Abwicklungs GmbH (formerly Rosenthal Studio-Haus GmbH).
history
The company was founded in 1879 and run as a family business. The company's founder , Philipp Rosenthal , moved his porcelain painting from Werl (North Rhine-Westphalia) to Selb in Bavaria, where he industrialized his painting workshop in Schloss Erkersreuth . In 1897 Rosenthal founded the company Bauer, Rosenthal & Co. in Kronach , in order to bring it back to the local group on the occasion of the founding of Philipp Rosenthal & Co. AG in 1897. In 1908 Rosenthal bought the Thomas porcelain factory in Marktredwitz and in 1917 the Zeidler & Co. porcelain factory, which later became known as the Bahnhof Selb brand in Selb-Plößberg and is now one of two headquarters of the porcelain icon .
In 1921 the company took over the Krister porcelain factory in Waldenburg (Silesia) . The manufacture was lost in 1945, but the brand was revived in 1951. It was not finally extinguished until 1971.
During the Nazi era , Philipp Rosenthal had to withdraw from the company in 1934 because of his Jewish descent. The board of directors and the supervisory board turned against Rosenthal and implemented various measures aimed at preventing Rosenthal from using his voting shares to change the composition of the board of directors and the supervisory board. So the Gauleitung was asked for support and shares with voting shares were sold to people who were not well-disposed to Rosenthal. However, the Nazi regime did not take direct action against Rosenthal so as not to endanger the company's foreign business. The fairly concealed Aryanization took advantage of inheritance disputes in the family and also pushed the stepson chosen by Rosenthal to succeed him from the company. Philipp Rosenthal's death in 1937 finally paved the way for his grandchildren and the anti-Semitic board.
In 1936 Rosenthal bought the Waldershof porcelain factory and the Thomas porcelain factory in Weidenberg-Sophienthal . In 1939 Rosenthal Isolatoren GmbH (RIG) was founded with branches in Erkersreuth (Selb) and Hennigsdorf near Berlin. In 1939 the company changed to Rosenthal Porzellan AG . When the ordinance on companies of de-Jewish businesses (RGBl. I 1941, p. 177) issued on March 27, 1941 forced the abandonment of the Jewish company and brand name Rosenthal , the “Aryan” management intervened through the Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and received a special permit to keep the Jewish name. Today's operation was created through various stages and restructuring. In 1965 the uniform name Rosenthal Glas & Porzellan AG was chosen and in 1969 shortened to Rosenthal AG.
With the return of the junior Philip Rosenthal from exile and his entry into the company in 1950, she gained a pioneering role in modern product design . In 1959, the designer Hans Theo Baumann designed the Form Berlin, which was sold in the millions until the 1970s . In 1960 the Rosenthal Studio Haus was opened in Nuremberg, which resulted in the world's first designer chain of stores. In 1972 Philip Rosenthal also founded the furniture manufacturer "Rosenthaleinrichtung" in Espelkamp (since 2009 philip Möbelmanufaktur GmbH; since 2013 brand of fröscher GmbH & CO. KG). In collaboration with industrial designers such as Raymond Loewy , Tapio Wirkkala , Elsa Fischer-Treyden , Timo Sarpaneva , Verner Panton and Luigi Colani , an impressive range of products was created, some of which are now considered classics. Walter Gropius designed the TAC tea set for Rosenthal, the Rosenthal factory in Selb in 1963/64 (construction period 1964–1967) and in 1967 the factory building for the Thomas glass factory in Amberg , the so-called "glassmaker's cathedral" (construction period 1967–1970, today the Amberg crystal glass factory ).
From 1997, the listed Rosenthal AG belonged to 90% of the British-Irish Waterford Wedgwood group. Rosenthal was the market leader in Germany for high-quality tableware and handicrafts made of porcelain and glass and was world market leader in association with Waterford Wedgwood. In 2000, the company took over Hutschenreuther-Werk B in Selb and the Hutschenreuther brand , under which Gunther Granget's work continued to be produced.
In June 2008 it became public that Waterford Wedgwood wanted to sell its Rosenthal stake due to liquidity problems. At that time there were around 1100 employees worldwide. The company faced insolvency due to the subsequent collapse of Waterford Wedgwood and filed for bankruptcy on January 9, 2009. The subsequent insolvency proceedings of Rosenthal AG were opened on April 1, 2009 by the Hof District Court. On July 20, 2009, the sale to the Italian household goods manufacturer Sambonet Paderno was announced. Rosenthal GmbH, founded on August 1, 2009, is an independent company of the Sambonet-Paderno Group. The seat remains in Selb, the managing director is Pierluigi Coppo .
The Rosenthal archive, a collection of around 15,000 exhibits from 130 years of history, was purchased and on 12 August 2009 by the Upper Franconia Foundation as a permanent loan to the Porzellanikon provided. This includes almost all product designs from the company's founding to the present day, as well as originals designed by artists such as Salvador Dalí , Andy Warhol , Wilhelm Wagenfeld and Walter Gropius .
Today's brands
- Rosenthal studio-line , design-oriented tableware and art objects made of porcelain and glass
- Rosenthal Tradition , classically designed porcelain (formerly Rosenthal Classic)
- Rosenthal meets Versace , luxury porcelain in collaboration with Versace , since 1992
- Thomas , design-oriented utility porcelain
- Hutschenreuther , household and hotel dishes
- Arthur Krupp , inexpensive second line for the catering trade
- Arzberg , since 2013
- diVino by Rosenthal , glasses
gallery
Vase, Art Nouveau, around 1900.
Service "2000", designed by Raymond Loewy / Richard Latham (1954).
“Romance” dinner service, designed by Bjørn Wiinblad (1959).
See also
literature
- Helga Hilschenz (research associate), Bernd Fritz ( editing ): Rosenthal, one hundred years of porcelain. Exhibition, Kestner Museum, Hanover , leaflet and catalog for the exhibition of the same name from April 29 to June 13, 1982 in the Kestner Museum Hanover, as well as from June 20 to August 15, 1982 in the Focke Museum in Bremen and from September 10th until October 31, 1982 in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne in the Overstolzenhaus, ed. for the Kestner Museum, Hanover, Stuttgart: Union-Verlag, 1982, ISBN 978-3-8139-5604-7 and ISBN 3-8139-5604-0
- Dieter Struß: Rosenthal. Service, figurines, ornamental and art objects . Battenberg, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89441-211-9 (English translation 1997)
Web links
- Rosenthal GmbH website
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Rosenthal in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Rosenthal today company website, accessed on February 15, 2014.
- ^ Gerhard Schmidt-Stein: Silesian porcelain before 1945 . Bergstadtverlag Korn, Würzburg 2007, p. 293.
- ↑ Jürgen Lillteicher: Rule of law and experience of persecution. In: C. Goschler, J. Lillteicher (Ed.): "Aryanization" and restitution. The restitution of Jewish property in Germany and Austria after 1945 and 1989. Göttingen 2002, p. 135.
- ^ Raul Hilberg: The annihilation of the European Jews . Volume 1. Fischer, 1993, ISBN 3-596-24417-X , p. 137 ff.
- ↑ Bernd Polster: Design Lexicon Germany. Cologne 1999, p. 282.
- ↑ Bernd Polster: Home design Germany. Cologne 2008, pp. 132, 197, 236 and 527.
- ↑ Martin Brandl: Gropius builds for Rosenthal: Porcelain factory on the Rothbühl in Selb registered as a monument . In: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Hrsg.): Monument preservation information . No. 148 , March 2011, p. 44–46 ( bayern.de [PDF; 5.7 MB ; accessed on November 10, 2019]).
- ↑ The history of Rosenthal: 1997–2000. In: rosenthal.de, accessed on October 7, 2014.
- ↑ Porcelain manufacturer: Rosenthal files for bankruptcy . In: Spiegel Online , January 9, 2009, accessed March 7, 2015.
- ↑ Italians save traditional Rosenthal company . In: Handelsblatt , July 20, 2009, accessed on February 16, 2014.
- ^ Rosenthal archive sold. Press release from the insolvency administration Schultze & Braun. Retrieved December 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Andre Tauber: Rosenthal in the fight against cheap Ikea porcelain Die Welt online, December 29, 2011, accessed on February 15, 2014