United Furniture Factory Germania

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The United Möbelfabriken Germania AG was a stock corporation founded in Bad Lauterberg at the beginning of the 20th century with a branch in Kaiserslautern for the manufacture of chairs and similar furniture .

history

In the late founding period of the German Empire , several furniture factories came together in Bad Lauterberg to found the United Furniture Factory "Germania" as a stock corporation on August 6, 1908. The "[...] manufacture and sale of chairs and related articles" was entered in the commercial register. Also in 1908 the designer created Hans Günther Reinstein a chair made of corrugated cardboard, shift and bentwood, he still from the same year, either by the after Germania named Bad Lauterberger corporation or 1911 from the in Vienna producing press fabric furniture company produce let.

From 1909 to 1911 a branch of Germania was maintained in Kaiserslautern.

After the First World War and at the beginning of the Weimar Republic , the United Möbelfabriken Germania AG was taken over by the Oldenburger Reederei AG in 1920 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Graham Dry : Hans Günther Reinstein and his "Furniture made of Cardboard" , in: Art in Hessen and on the Middle Rhine , Vol. 22, Darmstadt: E. Roether, 1982 pp. 131-135; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ Susanne Weiß: Art + Technology = Design? Materials and motifs of aviation in modern times (= studies on art , vol. 17), Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20495-2 , p. 163; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ Oldenburger Reederei AG, Oldenburg (until 1920: Vereinigte Möbelfabriken Germania AG, Bad Lauterberg / Harz) on the website of the German Digital Library

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