On Sunday, 5 April 1998 10:00:00 UTC+2, speer wrote:
aingles wrote:
Does anybody has some info about a piano maker named Klingmann.
I only know he established in Berlin in 1869
I would like more information please.
Thanks for your time
Antonio Ingles
Georg Klingmann, born 20th April 1842 at Weinheim /Baden, died 3rd
December 1917 at Berlin. After he learned his occupation as a joiner and pianomaker, he went to Berlin in 1864 and founded the firm "G. Klingmann
& Co. Pianofortefabrik" at the adress "Wiener Straße 46". In the year
1903, his sons Bruno Klingmann (1873-1934) and Hermann Klingmann (b.
16th August 1875) entered the company. A police report from 7th February
1910 says, at this time the company has 120 employees and produces 1500 instruments every year. Most of their instruments were exported to the
UK and in the colonies.
The company was stopped by opening bankruptcy proceedings in 1929. -
Later someone produced pianos as "Klingmann & Co." (maybe anyone of the family) until 1944.
(from: Herbert HEYDE: Musikinstrumentenbau in Preussen, Tutzing /Germany 1994)
Greetings
Florian Speer
Rud. Ibach Sohn Piano Company
Hermann Klingmann's daughter Rosemarie Eva was my grandmother who moved to German South West Africa (now Namibia) in the pre-war 1930's and married Albert Koll. They lived on a farm near Grootfontein. This is where Hermann andhis wife Charlotte spent
their last years. They are buried on the family graveyard on the farm. My grandmother had a "Klingmann" grand piano which she frequently played and all her grandchildren were taught to play piano on this enormous instrument. The son, Georg, died in
early 1940 in combat during World War 2.
For more exact dates and pictures I would have to dig up the Family Tree.
Regards
Michael Wenk
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