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  2. Mayser Hutfabrik

    in German Hat Companies

    Posted

    I was told about a scene featuring Mayser hats and boxes from the comedy / farce "One, Two, Three" by Billy Wilder staring James Cagney. The movie was shot in Berlin around 1960 prior to wall going up. I was able to purchase a copy so I put a clip of the scene "Speeding Crash Course" on YouTube. It is worth checking out the entire movie if you get a chance.

     

     

    By the way you can still purchase the same Mayser hat box featured in the clip. I have a few of them.

     

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  6. P. & C. Habig Hutfabrik

    in Austrian Hat Companies

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    Images from February 2009 World of Interiors of the former P&C Habig hat shop in Vienna, designed by Holzmann and Adam in 1896.

     

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    Some more pictures as it looks today.

     

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    This location is known as Habig-Hof.

     

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    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habig-Hof

     

    English translation.

     

    http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-res&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHabig-Hof&lp=de_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

     

    The current tenants: Eventagentur Büro Hirzberger - We design events like Haute Couture.

     

    http://www.hirzbergerevents.com/

     

    The main retail shop at Kärtnerstrasse that was destroyed in WWII.

     

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  7. Bronnold Hutfabrik

    in German Hat Companies

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    Bronnold Fedora (late 1950s early 1960s)

     

    This one is new old stock but had a little damage to the felt and stitching (removed) on the upper part of the ribbon. It must have been sandwiched between other hats. It has a nice sewn in liner and very nice sweat. Also sold out of shop (Spezialhaus Hertlein) in Erlangen.

     

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  9. Johann Hückel´s Söhne - Hückel Hutfabrik Weilheim

    in Austrian Hat Companies

    Posted

    Some info I dug up on the Hückel family. This is rough because it is translated from Czech.

     

    Czech » English

     

    HÜCKEL August - Entrepreneur

    * 17 6. 1838 Novy Jicin

    + 5. 8. 1917 Novy Jicin

    Since in 1868 the company co-Hutfabrik Johann Hückels Söhne, where in the same year he founded the sickness fund. With the brothers reached that in 1910 the firm produced 2,000 employees and 5,000 hats a day, which had exported to all continents. Specialty of the house was black velurový hat that Jews wear and which is in Eastern Europe called hykel. August gathered extensive art collection, the benefactor of art and 1910, he became an honorary citizen of New Jičín. With the brothers founded the town poorhouse.

     

    HÜCKEL Augustin - hatter

    * 20 9. 1786 Fulnek

    + 14. 4. 1848 Novy Jicin

    Within the tovaryšského vandru procestoval Europe and met with the technical progress of the craft. Since 1808 Champion has been kloboučnickým in Fulnek and since 1811 in Novy Jicin, where his brother cechmistrem. Johann Augustinův son of the brothers joined, and later founded a factory for the manufacture of hats.

     

    HÜCKEL Fritz - techniques

    * 22 6. 1885 Novy Jicin

    + 12. 1. 1973 Munich (Germany)

    Son of Augusta Hückela who studied engineering and studied the structure maitrážních cars, but since 1945, after the relocation of family hat business to Dingolfingu and Weilheimu in Upper Bavaria, led this company. After his death led her sons Fritz August (* 28 12th 1910 Novy Jicin) and Peter (* 18 4th 1912 Novy Jicin). Operation of the company was stopped in 1975.

     

    HÜCKEL Johann - Entrepreneur

    * 20 3. 1843 Novy Jicin

    + 18. 11. 1917 Novy Jicin

    Since in 1868 the company co-Hutfabrik Johann Hückels Söhne. With the brothers reached that in 1910 the firm produced 2,000 employees and 5,000 hats a day, which had exported to all continents. Specialty of the house was black velurový hat that Jews wear and which is in Eastern Europe called hykel. With the brothers founded the town poorhouse.

     

    HÜCKEL Johann - Entrepreneur

    * 7 4. 1814 Fulnek

    + 14. 1. 1880 Novy Jicin

    In 1835 the workshop took the hat uncle Johann Nepomuk, and in 1848 to join her father's workshop. Founded in 1865 in Novy Jicin chief engineer on the factory production of hats in the Habsburg monarchy. Three years later, to the management of factories and their three sons, the company changed its name to Hutfabrik Johann Hückels Söhne. Its products won medals soon exhibitions in Vienna, Paris and Philadelphia and Johann Hückel received in 1877 the Golden Cross of Merit.

     

    HÜCKEL Johann Nepomuk - cechmistr

    * 2 5. 1779 Fulnek

    + Novy Jicin

    Son hatter. In 1799 he was awarded a master right from the workshop in 1805 on the square in Novy Jicin, and soon there was cechmistrem. Later he became a member of the guild novojického his brother Augustin, whose son after the death of two brothers joined their facility, thereby laying the foundation hat manufacture.

     

    HÜCKEL Karl - Entrepreneur

    * 18 1. 1850 Novy Jicin

    + 19. 12. 1919 Novy Jicin

    He reálku in Opava, learned the saddler in Vienna and in 1868 the company was co-Hutfabrik Johann Hückels Söhne. From 1876 he studied in Philadelphia America's technology and service organization of factories, but attended for this purpose and hat factories in England, Belgium, France and Germany. Supported as a humanitarian institution founded by brothers town poorhouse. A benefactor of young artists and in 1910 became an honorary citizen of New Jičín.

  10. Johann Hückel´s Söhne - Hückel Hutfabrik Weilheim

    in Austrian Hat Companies

    Posted

    Additional information I received from the Nový Jičín museum. Again some of this might not be accurate because they were not really aware of the post war Hückel Weilheim operation.

     

    "Hello,

     

    thank you for you interest. Your questions are very simple.

     

    1. Hutfabrik Johann Hückel´s Söhne had four manufacturing sites prior to the end fo WW II.

     

    Neutitschein (today Nový Jičín) - headquarters

    Skoczów(in Czech Skočov)- today a part of Poland

    Racibórz (in Czech Ratiboř)- today a part of Poland

    Wien - Austria

     

    2. After WWII the family Hückel builded hut factory in the Weilheim in

    Germany. The iniciator was Fritz Hückel.

     

    3. The hutfabriks in Nový Jičín (and in the all Czechoslovakia) was nationalized in 1945. The new hut company get a name TONAK (Továrna na klobouky – translation – first letters of hut company in Czech). Today it is a join stock company ... http://www.tonak.cz/index.php?typ=TSB&showid=7

     

    In Nový Jičín were three big hut companies – Hückel, Peschel and Böhm. WWW pages about Böhm hut company: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....s/bohmfac.html

     

    4. Tonak has a trade mark of Hückel´s Company from the fifties of 20th Century.

     

    5. Your hat is from the production of Hückel in 1938-1945. Our city was a part of Germany from September 1938 as a Sudetenland. Your hat is from the best of quality known as Hückel Superior, the year 1799 is the date of birth of Hückels hut company. Paris Grand Prix 1900 is the term of one of many prices from national exhibitions, where Hückel company won gold medal. Same type was produced after WW II, we have a same hat of president Edvard Beneš from 1945 in our exhibition. Your hat was produced in Nový Jičín.

     

    Today we will prepare a new big exhibition about Hückel, this year we will celebrate 210 years from the founding. A part of this will be a catalogue about Hückel´s hut company.

     

    Sincerely,"

  12. Johann Hückel´s Söhne - Hückel Hutfabrik Weilheim

    in Austrian Hat Companies

    Posted

    A while back I received this information from the Nový Jičín museum but some of it might not be accurate. They are not really aware of the post war Hückel Weilheim operation.

     

    "Hello,

     

    (I asked them about my Superior. I am not sure this answer is correct. Just by the feel of the felt (very dense) it could have beaver in the mix.)

     

    1. your hat was produced from the rabbit coat. Rabbit and hare coat is the primary component for making of hats in Nový Jičín.

     

    (I asked how to determine TONAK vs. Weilheim. Just opens more questions.)

     

    2. Tonak and Weilheim produced hats with Hückel trade mark. They had cause with this trade mark, and I know, that Tonak bought this mark in fifties or sixties from Hückel family. Your first example of hat was produced in Hückel family company in Weilheim. I must say that Tonak produce hats with Hückel trade mark too still now.

     

    (I asked about my Exclusiv and your second Hückel. Only appears to have addressed my Exclusiv.)

     

    3. Your next pictures are beautiful. You have great example of Hückel production. This hat is from old collection, but he looks youthful. Oh. I think that it is prewar collection, Tonak company don´t like any of the success of Hückel´s production before 1989. You must compare a styl of hat, this type is worn before WW II – but !!! May be that Tonak produced for non-European consumers a collection of hats, which was marked old Hückel attributes. But the box for hat is old type, yes, I must say that it is hat from pre-war collection.

     

    (I asked about felt content of different models.)

     

    4. About felt content for named types of models – it is problem. They are old models of Hückel and content was protected by producer. May be any one from Tonak you can tell you about this. If you visit our city you can order in Tonak and you can see a production of hats today. We have very good relations with Tonak leadership.

     

    (I asked about the museum hat collection and Hückel exhibition.)

     

    About our exhibition. We have a great exhibition of hats in our Žerotin castle in Nový Jičín. This exhibition presents about 600 hats from 1800-2009. So for the 9/4 2009 we will prepare a new exhibition of old photographic collection of Hückel from 1910 (today is 100 years old and wasn´t presented till now). Part of this will be a presentation of military and service hats from the collection of five museums in our country, I think about 200 types. The exhibition will be presented to the February 2010.

     

    (I asked about Dreispitz's Super Sport and Mercur.)

     

    They are from old pre-war Hückel production. Super sport was made from long type of hair from rabbit – hats was called velours. It was special product of Hückel, self invention. Erich Ladewig was dealer of Hückel products as many others. Two years ago we bought complete hut work-room from the city Polička. This manufacture bought a ovenware from Nový Jičín (Hückel, Böhm) and completed a style of hats."

  16. C. G. Wilke Hutfabrik Guben

    in German Hat Companies

    Posted

    I found some interesting information regarding C. G. Wilke Hutfabrik, Guben (East Germany) . Appears Guben was important hat making center similar to Nový Jičín (Neutitschein) -> Peschel, Brüder Böhm, Peschel. Unfortunately the hat museum closed in 2005 but the site has some good information.

     

    http://www.acol.de/hutmuseum/index.htm

     

    Appears some it was moved here.

     

    http://www.technikmuseen.de/127.0.html

     

    A video on the Guben hat making industry.

     

    http://lexi-tv.de/themen/kunst_und_kultur/huete

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