Louis Schmidt velvet house

The half-timbered house from the 16th century on the Leine island Little Venice advertised with “ Lindener Velvet ”

The Samthaus Louis Schmidt in Hanover was an internationally active mail-order company founded in the middle of the 19th century , especially for velvet and plush fabrics as well as a manufacturer of hunting, sports and work clothes.

history

The company founder Georg Heinrich Louis Schmidt (1832–1914)

A good "game on a leash :" Louis Schmidt offered Sammete in the second house to the left of the Leintorbrücke ;
Postcard no. 56167 from Stengel & Co .;
1927 sent by Ludwig Schmidt from Friedrichstrasse 12 to Fritz Hunke in Cologne

View from the Leintorbrücke through Ernst-August-Straße towards Calenberger Neustadt ; the second house on the right is the Schmidt Samthaus;
Postcard from Georg Kugelmann , “Verlag Herm. Müller ", sent by the Schmidt couple as a birthday card on May 19, 1912 to Anna Hunke in Cologne," Pfitzengraben 17 or 19 I "

The company's founder, Georg Heinrich Louis Schmidt, was born in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1832 before the Industrial Revolution and initially trained as a trimmings and button maker , two of the professions that were recorded for decades in the address books of the royal seat of Hanover in the 19th century , before moving to his Wanderzeit could acquire the championship title . Thus equipped, Schmidt was in accordance with the still from the Middle Ages derived guild order to open a business. In 1857 he opened his company "Louis Schmidt" in the historic brewery in the Ernst-August-Straße 2 , a half-timbered house dating back to 1540 on the corner of Rademacherstraße on the so-called " leash Island Little Venice ." The by King Ernst August named The address was in the extension of Schlossstrasse almost immediately next to the residence , the Leineschloss .

By as part of the German war in 1866 and the annexation of Hanover by Prussia following Gewerbefreiheit Louis Schmidt could be product portfolio initially to white goods , as well as wool and haberdashery supplement. But it was only during the founding period of the German Empire in 1873 that he added the items "Lindener velvet" to his range of goods: The fabrics from the nearby industrial town of Linden were there by thousands of workers , including boys and girls , in what was then the largest factory of its kind made in Europe - the mechanical weaving mill , instead of the Ihme center that was later built there .

Anna Schmidt came from the same family as the velvet dealer, and around 1890 she married the entrepreneur Johannes Kühl , the manufacturer of the German dog biscuit factory .

" Linden - velvet "; Poster by Änne Koken ;
Four-color print , Illustrirte Zeitung , 1911

After Ludwig Schmidt, the son of the company founder, took over the Samthaus in 1894, he transformed the company into a pure specialty shop for Lindener Samte from 1897 and also set up a shipping department: the company, which soon exported internationally and overseas , was the beginning of the 20th century advertised on its letterheads as the "only special velvet mail-order company in Germany" and was awarded the "predicate of a purveyor to the court of Sr. Majesty the Emperor and King" by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1904 .

For a few years, the Louis Schmidt velvet store also added velvet and plush fabrics from the city of Krefeld to its range .

1908 Ludwig Schmidt took a partner for the newly constructed branch at the address Waidmarkt 18 in Cologne on Fritz Hunke was co-owner and manager of the branch business on the Rhine, which in the First World War in 1918 during an air raid by French air force victims of a bomb was; and with him three young people connected to the company and families.

In Hanover, on the other hand, the outbreak of war in 1914 initially prevented the planned demolition of the centuries-old cultural monument , as did a new building on the same site.

At the time of the Weimar Republic , Ludwig Schmidt acquired a commercial building for the company in what was then Georgstraße 2 , in order to keep it for later times. and after the German hyperinflation , the company had started with the production of self-made sports wardrobes from various hunting, sports and work materials: For their exhibits in Hanover at the anniversary hunting exhibition of the General German Hunting Protection Association (ADJV), Hanover regional association from 20. Until March 29, 1925 the Samthaus Louis Schmidt was awarded the gold medal.

In addition, the Samthaus had expanded after the war his offer: In addition to a plush especially for coats and as "Manchester" referred cord fabric had often from far away arriving customers also dresses silk to choose from - not in a widely expected large splendor department store, but in a ancient pointed gable building with angled rooms and vaults : The Samthaus Lous Schmidt was one of the greatest attractions in Hanover in the first half of the 20th century - and was destroyed by the air raids on Hanover in the Second World War .

literature

Paul Siedentopf (main editor ): Samthaus Louis Schmidt ... , in this: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the images), Jubilee Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, P. 284f.

Web links

Commons : Sammethaus Louis Schmidt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Paul Siedentopf (main editor ): Samthaus Louis Schmidt ... , in this: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt ( Compilation of the picture material), Jubilee-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 284f.

^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Industrialization. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 314f.

↑ Ludwig Hoerner : button makers and corset tailors and trimmers , in this: agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 240f., 258, 370

↑ ^a ^b Arnold Nöldeke (arrangement): Ernst-August-Straße 2 , in ders .: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover , ed. from the provincial committee and provincial directorate of the province of Hanover, part 1: District of Hanover , issue 2 in two parts: City of Hanover (= issue 19 of the complete work ), self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulzes bookshop, 1932, p. 496; (Digitized version of part 1 and 2)

^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Leineinsel "Little Venice". In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 396f.

↑ The main u. Residence city of Hanover. A guide through the city and the surrounding area. With views and a tarpaulin , Hanover: publishing house, printing and lithography by Gebrüder Jänecke , 1847, p. 16 u.ö .; Digitized via Google books

^ Klaus Mlynek : Annexation 1866. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 28f.

^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Ihme Center. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 314

↑ Hans Werner Dannowski : Hanover - far from near: In city districts on the move , Schlütersche GmbH & Co. KG Verlag und Druckerei, 2002, ISBN 978-3877066539 , pp. 171–175; limited preview in Google Book search

↑ Compare the invoice form "for Hochwohlgeboren Frau Pauline Fritzsche" in Sayda in the Erzgebirge , Kleine Kirchgasse, dated December 14, 1915

↑ Compare the Hanover city map : Wegweiser durch Hannover / Guide through Hanover. Patent city map with exhibition plan and other information about the export exhibition 1947. Falk-Landkarten-Verlag , Emil Falke, Hamburg 1947.

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[DBdaF_1927-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Paul Siedentopf (main editor ): Samthaus Louis Schmidt ... , in this: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt ( Compilation of the picture material), Jubilee-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 284f.

[2] Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Industrialization. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 314f.

[3] Ludwig Hoerner : button makers and corset tailors and trimmers , in this: agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 240f., 258, 370

[Ernst-August-Straße_2-4] Arnold Nöldeke (arrangement): Ernst-August-Straße 2 , in ders .: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover , ed. from the provincial committee and provincial directorate of the province of Hanover, part 1: District of Hanover , issue 2 in two parts: City of Hanover (= issue 19 of the complete work ), self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulzes bookshop, 1932, p. 496; (Digitized version of part 1 and 2)

[5] Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Leineinsel "Little Venice". In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 396f.

[6] The main u. Residence city of Hanover. A guide through the city and the surrounding area. With views and a tarpaulin , Hanover: publishing house, printing and lithography by Gebrüder Jänecke , 1847, p. 16 u.ö .; Digitized via Google books

[7] Klaus Mlynek : Annexation 1866. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 28f.

[8] Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Ihme Center. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 314

[9] Hans Werner Dannowski : Hanover - far from near: In city districts on the move , Schlütersche GmbH & Co. KG Verlag und Druckerei, 2002, ISBN 978-3877066539 , pp. 171–175; limited preview in Google Book search

[10] Compare the invoice form "for Hochwohlgeboren Frau Pauline Fritzsche" in Sayda in the Erzgebirge , Kleine Kirchgasse, dated December 14, 1915

[11] Compare the Hanover city map : Wegweiser durch Hannover / Guide through Hanover. Patent city map with exhibition plan and other information about the export exhibition 1947. Falk-Landkarten-Verlag , Emil Falke, Hamburg 1947.