Wilhelm Täger (watchmaker)

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Philipp August Wilhelm Täger (born January 3, 1797 ; † 1873 ) was a royal Hanoverian court - clockmaker and freemason as well as a deacon .

life and work

Philipp August Wilhelm Täger was born at the time of the Electorate of Hanover in 1797 and grew up into the so-called " French era ".

After the "Canzlist" Christ. Jacob Friedr. Täger was a member of the Johannis Masonic Lodge Zum Schwarzen Bär in the Orient from Hanover, the court watchmaker Täger was also accepted into the lodge named after the Black Bear on February 7, 1839 , similar to the sculptor Ludolf Täger in 1857 . By 1840 at the latest, in addition to his work as a court watchmaker, Wilhelm Täger was also a deacon at the Aegidienkirche .

After the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover was founded in the run-up to industrialization , Wilhelm Täger was an exhibitor at the trade shows in the Kingdom of Hanover from the start . At the first trade exhibition in the Leineschloss in 1835, the exhibits were recognized for their “excellent perfection” with a silver medal . At that time, Täger was still a simple watchmaker. He was subsequently awarded the title of purveyor to the court.

The pieces he showed at the second trade exhibition in 1837 with the numbers 2722 to 2726 were described in detail by the trade association in its nationally published communications. In addition to a few clockworks, a " tenon compass or micrometer with dial on which the pointer still shows dimensional differences of less than 1/4000 Paris inch " was presented. Karl Karmarsch , who had commissioned the instrument, provided detailed instructions for use in the yearbooks of the Imperial Royal Polytechnic Institute in Vienna in 1834 .

An early German stopwatch “No. 7 "with the date" 1850 "on the dial and the signature" W. Täger / Hanover ”. This so-called “ third counter” has four pointers and three dials and, as well as the hours, minutes and seconds, shows a “sixth of a tenth of a second” as a special feature. The surviving third counter from Täger is one of the early rarities among precision clocks in Germany , similar to one made by the watchmaker Johann Andreas Klindworth , who was working in Göttingen around the same time .

In 1854 Täger was again an exhibitor at the First General German Industrial Exhibition in Munich . His third clock shown there received an honorable mention "because of its usefulness for artillery purposes ". One of Täger's Terzienuhren had been preserved in a private collection in the 1990s. She was with Rubin - cylinder escapement provided as well with three dials; one for hours and minutes as well as two identical sub-dials for 60 seconds.

On June 20, 1861, Täger signed as an expert in connection with an article written by the mathematician and professor Moritz Rühlmann in the communications of the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover under the title pendulum clocks with constant force , in which a watchmaker's construction presented to the general assembly Voss from Dannenberg was described.

See also

literature

  • oV : Wilh. Täger, watchmaker in Hanover. In: List of the items displayed at the first exhibition of domestic industrial products organized by the trade associations for the Kingdom of Hanover , Hanover: Printed by the Jänecke brothers, May 1835, p. 45f .; Digitized via Google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wilhelm Nöldeke : The Johanns Freemason Lodge to the black bear in the Orient from Hanover 1774 to 1874. History of the lodge. By Br. W. Nöldeke. Secular celebration on March 16 and 17, 1874 ... Manuscript for Bbf. Freemasons , Hanover: Hofbuchdruckerei der Bbr. Jänecke, 1875, p. 28; Digitized via Google books
  2. ^ Hans-Jochen Kummer: Ludwig Strasser. A watch specialist from Glashütte. Precision clocks from Saxony. With a contribution The precision pendulum clocks by Strasser & Rohde / by Herbert Dittrich , Munich: Callwey, 1994, ISBN 978-3-7667-1122-9 , p. 19; Preview over google books
  3. ^ A b Friedrich Voigts : Wilhelm Blumenhagen's masonry estate. Manuscript for Brothers Freemasons , Hanover: from the brother (University Cassirer) GA Thiemann, 1840, p. 21; Digitized via Google books
  4. ↑ Hof- und Staats- Handbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1846 , Hanover: Druck und Verlag der Berenbergschen Buchdruckerei, 1846, p. 380; Digitized via Google books
  5. ↑ a b c d Karl Karmarsch , Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden : Communications of the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover. Born 1838 - 1839 or delivery 15 - 20, Hanover: in commission of Hahn'schen Hof-Buchhandlung, 1839, Sp. 107; Digitized via Google books
  6. ^ Ludwig Hoerner , Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Commercial exhibitions. 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. 219.
  7. ^ Karl Karmarsch, Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden: Mittheilungen of the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover. Born 1834 - 1835 or delivery 1 - 7 , with 6 copperplate engravings and an illustration of the club medal, Hanover: in commission of the Hahnschen Hof bookstore, 1835, column 402; Digitized via Google books
  8. ↑ Karl Karmarsch: Description of some instruments for making fine measurements. In: Yearbooks of the Imperial Royal Polytechnic Institute in Vienna , Vol. 18, Vienna 1834, pp. 28–53, here pp. 36–43
  9. ↑ Jürgen Ermert: Foreword double volume 2/4 ... to double volume 2/4 of the PPU book series , in which: Precision pendulum clocks in Germany from 1730 to 1940. Observatories, astronomers, time offices and their clocks , Vol. 2: Astronomical Pendulum clocks in Germany from 1770 to 1840. The development towards German precision pendulum clock technology , Overath: JE Verlag, 2017; Illustrated PDF document on ppu-buch.de
  10. ^ Fr. WB von Hermann (Ed.): Report of the Assessment Commission at the general German industrial exhibition in Munich in 1854 , No. 6, Georg Franz, Munich 1855, p. 46
  11. ^ Hans-Jochen Kummer: Ludwig Strasser. A watch specialist from Glashütte. Precision clocks from Saxony , Munich: Callwey, 1994, ISBN 978-3-7667-1122-9 , p. 19; Preview over google books
  12. ↑ Friedrich Heeren , Moritz Rühlmann, Georg Niemeyer : Mittheilungen des Gewerbe-Verein für das Kingdom Hannover , New Series, 1861, with 12 copper plates, Hannover: in commission of the Hellwing'schen Hof-Buchhandlung, 1861, Sp. 205-207; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Täger, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Täger, Philipp August Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Hanoverian court watchmaker and freemason
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1797
DATE OF DEATH 1873