Sigmund Lindauer
Sigmund Lindauer (born November 23, 1862 in Cannstatt , today a district of Stuttgart ; † October 12, 1935 there ) was a German textile entrepreneur and inventor of the Hautana , the first mass- produced brassiere , which was patented in 1913.
Life
Sigmund was the son of the corset manufacturer Salomon Lindauer. The father ran the company "J. & S. Einstein "and after the merger with the textile company" H. Gutmann & Cie. ”In Cannstatt is its managing director. He was a respected citizen who served on the municipal council of the Oberamtsstadt for six years (1899–1905).
He was a modern industrialist who worked in a team with his brothers Max and Julius and was interested in the concerns of the employees.
The company had its headquarters at Hallstrasse 25 and manufactured corsets , among other things . After joining his father's company, he named the factory in 1882 “S. Lindauer & Co. ”. The company had branches in Holzgerlingen, Paris (managed by brother Julius) and in New York.
The villa of the industrial family was located at Taubenheimstrasse 8, where the Stuttgart Sports Clinic is today, and opposite today's Kurpark, where Gottlieb Daimler operated a test workshop in his garden at that time .
Sigmund Lindauer was married to Rosa Kahn (born January 27, 1866 - lost in the Theresienstadt ghetto ; remembered with Stolperstein on April 14, 2012 ). They had a daughter named Marie (born September 5, 1889, † November 10, 1972). She married the author and corsetry maker Wilhelm Meyer-Ilschen (* December 8, 1878, † August 4, 1946).
Sigmund Lindauer was cremated in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart, which indicates his liberal attitude towards the Jewish religion. He is buried today on the family grave of the Mayer-Ilschen family in the Uff churchyard in Bad Cannstatt.
In order to avoid expropriation by the National Socialists , the company was renamed "Wilhelm Mayer-Ilschen Corset and Trikotagenfabrik" after his death in 1938.
After the Second World War, the daughter Marie Meyer-Ilschen ran the company on her own from 1946 and from 1949 together with her daughter Rosmarie Usener.
Prima Donna and Hautana
Prima Donna is the brand name for corsets that has been protected since 1890 and still exists today, as the brand and its trademark rights were sold to the Belgian lingerie manufacturer Van de Velde in Schellebellein in the province of East Flanders on January 1, 1990. Hautana has been the brand name of the "skin-close brassiere" since 1912, a model made of silk jersey that is worn directly on the skin without stiffening, the first industrially mass-produced brassiere. This was registered by the Stuttgart Patent Office in 1912 under "Number 346".
In 2012, the exhibition "Prima Donna: On the checkered history of a Cannstatt corset factory" in the Bad Cannstatt City Museum reminded of the varied history of the company.
Honors
- Sigmund-Lindauer-Weg in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
Individual evidence
- ^ Jacob Toury: Jewish textile entrepreneurs in Baden-Württemberg 1683-1938 , JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1984, p. 204, ISBN 3-16-744824-5
- ↑ http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/ S. Lindauer u. Cie., Inh. Salomon, Sigmund and Julius Lindauer: Corset factory: 1899 400 workers; Branch factory in Paris; the company was one of the world's leading companies in the corset industry.
- ↑ http://www.stolpersteine-cannstatt.de/
- ↑ http://www.wirtemberg.de/sigmund-lindauer.htm From corset to brassiere
- ↑ http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.stadtmuseum-cannstatt-ausstellung-ueber-miederwarenfabrik-page1.c22a27af-d717-4a44-b17a-2a3ab0f591aa.html Exhibition in the city museum
- ↑ Planning staff of the City Museum and ProAlt-Cannstatt eV [Ed.]: Prima Donna: On the eventful history of a Cannstatter corset factory. , Stuttgart: 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lindauer, Sigmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German textile entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cannstatt , now part of Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1935 |
| Place of death | Cannstatt , now part of Stuttgart |