Schäffer & Walcker

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Schäffer & Walcker GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1845
Seat Gifhorn
management Sascha Chabowski
Branch foundry

The Schaeffer & Walcker GmbH is a German company , which from 1845 to 1901, numerous work has made the German Empire in the public tastes such. B. the sculptors Arnold Künne , Franz Krüger , Friedrich Reusch and Ferdinand Lepcke .

history

The bronze foundry Schäffer & Walcker , founded in Berlin in 1845, is one of the traditional German foundry and sanitary companies. In 1871 it was converted into a stock corporation , which, under the management of Berthold Schäffer († 1874), became the Berliner Actien-Gesellschaft for central heating, water and gas systems (formerly Schäffer & Walcker) at the address Lindenstr. 19 traded. The company initially produced gas lighting , gas heating stoves, water pipes and workpieces made of cast zinc . At the time the company was founded, the company was processing around 12,000 quintals of metals, mainly into bronze chandeliers and candelabras . The share capital was 750,000 thalers (3750 shares), of which Berthold Schäffer held 200,000 thalers. From July 14, 1881, the AG led the name Actien-Gesellschaft Schäffer & Walcker (factory for lighting objects, fittings, heating and ventilation systems) in Lindenstr. 18. Announcing business success and a. Large orders, such as for the new building for the Technical University of Charlottenburg with an order volume of more than one million marks.

From 1878 to 1895 Alfred Hausding was director of Schäffer & Walcker AG. Under his direction, a representative new company building with a magnificent mosaic facade (by Salvatini in Venice) was built in 1887. In February 1888, the AG took over the art foundry Beyschwang & Beyer , thereby expanding the range of production considerably. Schäffer & Walcker now became a serious competitor of the formerly leading art foundry Gladenbeck . The art foundry master Otto Beyschwang stayed in the AG Werkmeister, as did his leading employee, the Zieseleur Beyer. Hausding's successor was Wilhelm Schultze. After multiple capital increases through the issue of new shares and a consolidation of shares carried out in November 1907, the share capital amounted to 1,680,000 marks. At the same time, the stock exchange trading of the shares was suspended for an indefinite period by the stock exchange admission office. The main reason was the poor situation in the construction market, which had hit the central heating construction department hard. As early as 1906, with the sale of the company's premises at Alte Jacobstraße 133, the plumbing, foundry and fittings divisions were dissolved.

In August 1920, Schäffer and Walcker Zentralheizungen GmbH (No. 18750 in the Berlin-Mitte commercial register) was founded in Berlin with the aim of continuing this division of the former AG. The share capital was 400,000 marks. Franz Clauss and Hermann Orth were registered as managing directors. From 1968 the sanitary and electrical departments were founded.

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In 1970 Caesar Wollheim GmbH & Co. KG took over 100% of the shares in Schäffer & Walcker GmbH; it was a reallocation within the indirect federal assets (previously Salzgitter Group ). In the course of privatization, the current shareholder took over the shares in the Salzgitter Group in 1984.

Works of the bronze foundry (selection)

  • Friedrich Franz II in Schwerin

  • Replica of the equestrian figure

  • Bismarck Monument - 1898 in Elberfeld

  • Kaiser Wilhelm I. - Monument in Koenigsberg

  • Plaque at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt

literature

  • Joh. Ralf Beines, Walter Geis, Ulrich Krings: Cologne: the equestrian monument for King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia on the hay market. Volume 31 of Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln, Bachem 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1796-8 .
  • Gerlinde Brandenburger: Monuments, fountains and free sculptures in Karlsruhe, 1715–1945 , Volume 7 of publications of the Karlsruhe City Archives, Badenia 1987.
  • Museum Association Aachen: A achener Kunstblätter. Publishing house L. Schwann. 1991, p. 318 ff.
  • Peter Bloch , Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson : Ethos and Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914 (contributions) , Berlin 1990.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg Stock Exchange Hall of June 14, 1871 [1]
  2. ^ Yearbook of the Berliner Boerse: A reference book for bankers and capitalists. 1901
  3. ↑ Adolf Wolpert: Theory and Practice of Ventilation and Heating: especially for heating technicians, as well as for architects, builders and builders: at the same time a textbook for self-teaching and for use in lectures on structural health. Baumgärtner, 1887, p. 1086
  4. ↑ Arts and Crafts. Journal for the Promotion of the German Art Industry, Volume 4, Verlag-Anst. of the Bavarian Trade Museum, 1870, p. 338
  5. ^ Berliner Börsenzeitung, July 15, 1881
  6. ^ Berliner Börsenzeitung, November 11, 1884
  7. ↑ Berliner Tageblatt June 4, 1895
  8. ^ The Reichstag: Parliament, Monument, Symbol, p. 387 [2]
  9. ↑ GWF; The gas and water compartment, Volume 29, 1886, p. 1052 [3]
  10. ↑ Berlin and the Berliners: People. Things. Manners. Winke, 1905, p. 85, [4]
  11. ↑ Berliner Tageblatt of December 4, 1907
  12. ↑ Berliner Tageblatt of July 21, 1911
  13. ^ Berliner Börsenzeitung from September 6, 1920
  14. ↑ German Bundestag, 8th electoral period, printed matter 8/3527, p. 14
  15. ^ "After the approval of the monument committee at short notice, Ludwig Brunow was able to present the two sculptures at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition of 1890".
  16. ↑ Westermann's illustrated German monthly books , Volume 73, Westermann 1893, p. 778