German & Austrian Hutmachers

[michael78]

Hi Chaps, found this Anton Fischer Homburg last week, fabulous quality felt, colour is greyish blue. Steve, have you any idea about this brand? i have never heard of them.

Mike

 

[mayserwegener]

Mike, Great find! Anton Fischer was original in Guben, Germany pre WWII. The factory did not survive WWII and Guben became part of the GDR and all Guben Hat companies were combined as VEB Vereinigte Hutwerke Guben.

http://germanaustrianhats.invisionzone.com/index.php?/topic/171-anton-fischer-guben/?hl=fischer

I can't read the liner logo information. Can you take a better photo? Also is there anything below on the paper label?

 

[michael78]

Mike, Great find! Anton Fischer was original in Guben, Germany pre WWII. The factory did not survive WWII and Guben became part of the GDR and all Guben Hat companies were combined as VEB Vereinigte Hutwerke Guben.

http://germanaustrianhats.invisionzone.com/index.php?/topic/171-anton-fischer-guben/?hl=fischer

I can't read the liner logo information. Can you take a better photo? Also is there anything below on the paper label?

Hi Steve, will post more pics tomorrow, off to bed now!!

Mike

 

[mayserwegener]

J. Hückel´s Söhne "Elastic", French Point Size 5 1/2, 148 grams, probably early to mid 1930s. I really like the bow design and the condition is near mint. I have many J. Hückel´s Söhne Stiff Felts.

 

[David Niles]

Beautiful boller

 

[mayserwegener]

David, Thanks!

 

[michael78]

Mike, Great find! Anton Fischer was original in Guben, Germany pre WWII. The factory did not survive WWII and Guben became part of the GDR and all Guben Hat companies were combined as VEB Vereinigte Hutwerke Guben.

http://germanaustrianhats.invisionzone.com/index.php?/topic/171-anton-fischer-guben/?hl=fischer

I can't read the liner logo information. Can you take a better photo? Also is there anything below on the paper label?

Hi Steve, Here's some better pics of hat and liner, these show a more accurate colour balance.
This one was imported to Sweden for Ohrman & Melander A.B. who where based in Arboga. Do you have any idea of age?
Also no more info on the tag, just says 57 which i presume is the size.

Going to put it in the classified or ebay if no one is interested.

Mike

 

[mayserwegener]

Mike, Thank you for additional photos. I was hoping there would be something on the liner logo that might be company related but that's not the case. The paper label kinda looks Mayser / Mayser Milz like but can't say for sure. My guess is mid 1950s maybe a bit later. It's a really fantastic looking hat.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Hi Steve, Here's some better pics of hat and liner, these show a more accurate colour balance.
This one was imported to Sweden for Ohrman & Melander A.B. who where based in Arboga. Do you have any idea of age?
Also no more info on the tag, just says 57 which i presume is the size.

Going to put it in the classified or ebay if no one is interested.

Mike

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Too bad it's not my size

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[steur]

J. Hückel´s Söhne "Elastic", French Point Size 5 1/2, 148 grams, probably early to mid 1930s. I really like the bow design and the condition is near mint. I have many J. Hückel´s Söhne Stiff Felts.

Super hat, Steve. Not only the bow but the way the liner design is done on these old hats gets me every time.

 

[steur]

Hi Steve, Here's some better pics of hat and liner, these show a more accurate colour balance.
This one was imported to Sweden for Ohrman & Melander A.B. who where based in Arboga. Do you have any idea of age?
Also no more info on the tag, just says 57 which i presume is the size.

Going to put it in the classified or ebay if no one is interested.

Mike

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Lovely hat, Mike. The German hats of this period are usually of very high quality.

 

[mayserwegener]

Super hat, Steve. Not only the bow but the way the liner design is done on these old hats gets me every time.

Stefan, Thank you! This one is in great condition.

 

[Chepstow]

Great new stuff guys. Congrats to the new hats.
Today I was in Düsseldorf and I come home with two Homburg.
For Steve‘s Side some Photos of a Rheinhut, size 59. from 1965.
The other Hat is from Robert Heath a Englisch hatter!

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[mayserwegener]

Manfred, Congrats on the great finds! I really like the one Rheinhut I have. How does the Düsseldorf flea market compare to Dortmund?

 

[mayserwegener]

J. Hückel´s Söhne 110 Year Anniversary. I was lucky to find this booklet back in 2012 and decided to upgrade the translation.

MEMORIAL WRITING

ON THE OCCASION OF THE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS

OF THE COMPANY

J. HÜCKEL'S SONS

K. AND K. HOF-HUTFABRIKANTEN

NEUTITSCHEIN VIENNA

From small beginnings, our company has developed over the course of a century to its present size and significance. Founded in the traditional forms of craftsmanship and continued for two generations, it owes its fame. and its flowering, the timely application and exploitation of all technical advances and the commercial prudence and energy of its owners.

The founding of our company dates back to the year 1799. In that year JOHANN NEPOMUK HÜCKEL, born in Fulnek in Moravia, the hatmaker JOSEF HÜCKEL and the ELISABETH GOLD "marital son", was accepted by the hatters' guild in Neutitschein "as an urban master".

Twelve years later, in 1811, his younger brother AUGUSTIN, who had been a milliner in Fulnek since 1808, came to see him. Also he was accepted by the Neutitscheiner Hatter guild on a master job just completed. Each of the two brothers ran the business independently. In 1835, JOHANN HÜCKEL, son of AUGUSTIN HÜCKEL, acquired master craftsmanship and took over the business of his uncle JOHANN. When his father died in 1848, he also took over the business of the AUGUSTIN HÜCKEL and led both together in the previous craftsmanship form on. Manual labor was still active in all stages of production, and the old forms of tools were still in use, which had been in use for manual operation from time immemorial. The finished goods were offered in town and on markets; the shipping and commercial operation remained within the narrowest limits.

But JOHANN HÜCKEL proved his full understanding of the demands of his time. He saw the great advances in technology and realized the need to factory-design his business.

He sent his sons AUGUST, JOHANN and KARL into the world after the first two had learned the trade in the old way and let them get acquainted with the technical and commercial operating forms in the most outstanding foreign places of the hat industry. Equipped with a wealth of technical and commercial experience, his sons returned home and their own. In 1865 he was the first person in Austria to introduce the mechanical operation of hair felts production. A 3-horse steam engine and some work machines came to the lineup. But soon the system proved insufficient. The brothers AUGUST, JOHANN and KARL HÜCKEL took over, supported by their father for a decade and promoted, on 1 January 1868 under the company J. HÜCKEL'S SÖHNE the young factory. They acquired a conveniently located plot outside the city and built a large-scale factory there, which equipped them with the most modern technical equipment. They soon succeeded in obtaining a product that was equivalent to the most outstanding foreign brands and could successfully compete with them on the world market.

The war, which lasted between Germany and France in 1870, 71 paralyzed the sale of these two countries, which until then had dominated the world market, and thereby offered the company an opportunity. to gain a foothold abroad, especially in the overseas countries. The company understood how to make good use of this opportunity. The successes achieved stimulated new expansions and improvements in fabrication, which enabled the company to retain and further increase the sales area gained through hard work.

In particular, the company was the first hair felts hat factory to introduce mechanical hair cutting as its own business. Although the old master craftsmen, including AUGUSTIN HÜCKEL, had already operated the hairdressing by hand, only with the introduction of the hair-felt hat factory had the production of the raw material become an independent branch of industry that flourished in Belgium, Germany and France but was not represented in Austria at all was. In the same way, with the sole exception of lining materials, tape and leather, the company took over the production of all other aids necessary for the completion and dispatch of its products, so that it was able to produce almost exclusively its own resources Raw materials to produce the product that can be shipped.

Thus, the company grew to its current size, which made it necessary to include the sons of the former sole proprietors, HUGO, OTTO, HANS and FRITZ HÜCKEL (the fourth generation), as employees in the company.

Today, the factories cover a floor area of 44,500 m2 (square meters), the factory and warehouse building alone 18,800 m2.

Two fur magazines store the raw material procured at home and abroad of hares, rabbits and nutrias.

Approximately 16,000 skins are processed every day, and the hairdressing shop, the machine shop, the mill, dyeing, dressing and bar dyeing companies make their way to the packing rooms to leave the factory as ready-made hair felts. Our own carpentry, turnery, locksmithery, foundry and printing works - each company to the extent of a small factory - get the necessary tools. All working rooms are light and airy and with the most proven heating. and ventilation equipment (Sturtevant system). In the walk and dye rooms, the hot air blown in through a wide-ramified pipe system prevents any formation of haze; in the other workshops, suction devices operate with such success that the dust developed in the factory is eliminated to barely noticeable traces.

The machine equipment of the factory corresponds to the current state of the art. The most modern innovations and improvements in the field of machines are in use here.

Twelve steam boilers and four steam engines provide the operational power of 1100 horsepower.

The actual factory operation uniformly procured a steam engine of 600 horsepower, of which 250 are transmitted by electric means of 25 electric motors.

Two steam engines of 250 horsepower each serve the electrical lighting and the ventilation systems. The fourth 250 horsepower steam engine is the reserve. Feeding the boiler requires three wagons of coal daily. The factory currently employs 2000 workers and a corresponding number of civil servants and factory managers; It is designed for a daily production of 5000 hair felts. The company has always been concerned with caring for the well-being of its officials, plant workers and workers.

 

[mayserwegener]

Continued.

A colony of workers' houses, which provides cheap and healthy housing for 100 families, houses for civil servants and foremen, as well as the company health insurance since 1868, the already existing disability. Insurance of civil servants and factory leaders, the insurance of their widows and orphans, adequately endowed old age, widows and orphanage fund of workers testify to the care the company devotes to its employees. The company can proudly point out that the good relationship between his and her workers has never been clouded.

The company's achievements have been recognized at a number of exhibitions by receiving the highest honors: in Vienna in 1873 with the Progress Medal, at the World Fair in Philadelphia in 1876 with the highest accolade, at the World's Fair in Paris in 1876 with the Great Golden Medal and 1900 with the Grand Prix. The merits of the owners for the creation and development of their industry in Austria were also highly appreciated, such as the award of the GOLDEN MERIT CROSS WITH THE CROWN to JOHANN HÜCKEL, the founder of

the industrial enterprise, the Order of the IRON CROWN III CLASS to AUGUST HÜCKEL, as the current elder of the owners, and the title of K. U. K. HOF HUTFABRIKANTEN to the brothers AUGUST, JOHANN and KARL HÜCKEL proves. and more recently the awarding of the Order of the Iron Stars III. CLASS to JOHANN HÜCKEL.

Publisher of J. Hückel's Sons, Neutitschein.

Printed by Christoph Reisser's Sons, Vienna V.

 

[Chepstow]

Thank you Steve.
Fantastic Book Steve! Thank you for sharing. I am glad it is written in German.
Düsseldorfs and Dortmunds Universität Fleamarket are very big.
Düsseldorf has to 99% old stuff ore better used things and is bigger then Dortmund. Dortmund has a place only for new goods the rest of the fleamarket sells used things.
Dortmund is every Saturday in the month and Düsseldorf is only one day Sunday in a month. Dortmund all year long and Düsseldorf March until October.


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[MondoFW]

J. Hückel´s Söhne "Elastic", French Point Size 5 1/2, 148 grams, probably early to mid 1930s. I really like the bow design and the condition is near mint. I have many J. Hückel´s Söhne Stiff Felts.

Beautiful! The pleated liners never get old. Really gotta ditch American hats and go Euro! Hahaha!

 

[mayserwegener]

Thank you Steve.
Fantastic Book Steve! Thank you for sharing. I am glad it is written in German.
Düsseldorfs and Dortmunds Universität Fleamarket are very big.
Düsseldorf has to 99% old stuff ore better used things and is bigger then Dortmund. Dortmund has a place only for new goods the rest of the fleamarket sells used things.
Dortmund is every Saturday in the month and Düsseldorf is only one day Sunday in a month. Dortmund all year long and Düsseldorf March until October.


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Manfred, Thanks! I will have to visit the Düsseldorf Flea Market with you someday!

 

[mayserwegener]

Beautiful! The pleated liners never get old. Really gotta ditch American hats and go Euro! Hahaha!

Thanks!