Tänzers Original Grudeofenfabrik

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The former porter's house of the Grudeofenfabrik, here as a yellow sales point for MFO mattresses in Davenstedter Straße 109G at the corner of Bauweg in Linden-Mitte near the Lindener Hafen

The Tänzers Original Grudeofenfabrik in Hanover was a Grude oven , stove and knitting machine manufacturer and exporter founded in 1882 .

history

A Grude stove from the time around Friedrich Kochheim's birth

The company began in the early days of the German Empire , after the City Council of Leipzig granted the locksmith Hermann Tänzer the right to manufacture base stoves in 1882 . The presented construction of a "[...] transportable Grude" was Tänzer's own invention , more precisely it was even two inventions, namely a warming chest on the one hand and a movable one at the same time. Tänzer's initially small workshop, which later operated as a GmbH , was relocated to Hanover in 1908. But already in the "Leipziger Kalender 1906" dancer advertises and reports about 7000 stoves in operation.

After the First World War and in the year of the height of the German hyperinflation , the engineer Friedrich Kochheim took over the production of Tänzers Gruden in 1923, then on the one hand developed the stove technically and on the other hand managed the constantly growing operation on Bauweg 38 near the Lindener Hafen .

Also in 1923, the company, which had won gold medals at several exhibitions, operated for the first time as Tänzer's Original Grudeofen Factory.

During the time of National Socialism , Friedrich Kochheim - like other German industrialists - became a supporting member of the SS in the summer of 1934 , "[...] whether voluntary or compulsory can no longer be clarified today."

In 1938 Tänzers Original Grudeofenfabrik was an exhibitor at the construction fair as part of the Leipzig spring fair .

In the middle of World War II , however, Kochheim was denounced in 1942 for "subversive statements" and arrested by the Gestapo, and was then taken to various prisons and concentration camps . Meanwhile, during the air raids on Hanover, the factory halls and the entire machine park were destroyed by aerial bombs , and long-term employees were also killed under the rubble.

After the war, the Tänzers Original-Grudeofenfabrik GmbH was gradually rebuilt, even after the death of Friedrich Kochheim in 1955. Due to the division of Germany, however , the Grudekoks could no longer be procured from East Germany, the then German Democratic Republic become. As a result, the Hanoverian furnace factory switched the production from the production of the tried and tested Grude furnaces to newly developed and different types of all-burner - hot air stoves that could be fired with oil, for example, in addition to coal, wood and peat. In addition, the new stoves, which were soon exported to various European countries, could also be connected to central heating, for example to heat single-family houses.

A second economic pillar was the newly started production of hand knitting machines after the war : The knitting machines with the brand name "Strick-Matador" were exported to various countries overseas .

In the 1950s, the company was a company publication with the title From Nefertiti to dancers ... .

In 1965, Tänzer's Original Grudeofenfabrik was listed in Volume 1 of Hoppenstedts Handbuch der Großunternehmen (HbGU).

In 1968 the company was dissolved.

Patents (selection)

Fonts

  • From Nefertiti to dancers. A journey through four millennia. 168 partly illustrated pages as well as a supplement, ed. from Tänzer's Original-Grudeofenfabrik GmbH, Hannover-Linden. Compilation, design and drawings: EA Meyer-Niehof, Hannover-Linden, [o. D., circa 1953]

Archival material

Archival material from and about Tänzer's Original Grudeofenfabrik can be found, for example

  • as corporate typeface from Taenzer's Original-Grudeofenfabrik (Hanover) in the Deutsches Museum

literature

  • Helmut Plath , Herbert Mundhenke , Ewald Brix (edit.): Tänzers Original-Grudeofenfabrik GmbH , in this: Heimatchronik of the capital Hanover (= home chronicles of the cities and districts of the federal territory , vol. 17), Cologne: Archive for Deutsche Heimatpflege GmbH, 1956, p. 410f.
  • Albert Lefèvre: Hermann Tänzer , in this: The contribution of Hanoverian industry to technical progress , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 24 (1970), s. 230

Web links

Commons : Tänzers Original Grudeofenfabrik  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, Kochheim is said to have already become "[...] in 1918 owner and managing director of a medium-sized company in Hannover-Linden"; compare Jörg Kulbe: Considered: Memories In: online edition of the Neue Nordhäuser Zeitung . April 22, 2003, last accessed December 26, 2016

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b o.V. : Stoves and ovens , in: Deutsche Bauzeitung . Weekly for national building design, building technology, spatial planning and urban development, building industry, building law , volume 72, issue 9 of March 4, 1938, p. B 236ff.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Helmut Plath, Herbert Mundhenke, Ewald Brix (edit.): Tänzers Original-Grudeofenfabrik GmbH , in this: Heimatchronik of the capital Hanover (= home chronicles of the cities and districts of the federal territory , vol. 17), Cologne: Archive for Deutsche Heimatpflege GmbH, 1956, p. 410f.
  3. ^ A b c Albert Lefèvre: Hermann Tänzer , in this: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Volume 24 (1970), p. 230
  4. ↑ Compare Andreas Andrew-Bornemann: 1907 / 08-1968 Hannoversche Grude-Ofen-Fabirk, Tänzers Original-Grudeofenfabrik GmbH Hanover ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , with a company chronicle (without individual references ) and two scaled-down images of picture and postcards of the company @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.postkarten-archiv.de
  5. ↑ a b Jörg Kulbe: Considered: Memories In: online edition of the Neue Nordhäuser Zeitung of April 22, 2003, last accessed on December 26, 2016
  6. ↑ Compare, for example, the information provided by the Baden-Württemberg Library Service Center
  7. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  8. ↑ On the freepatentsonline.com page
  9. ↑ Compare the information from the Deutsches Museum


Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '53.7 "  N , 9 ° 41' 39.9"  E