Die Chronik der Feldmuhle..

Stettin: Feldmuhle Aktiengesellschaft, 1935. First edition (with the date on the title page). Quarto (8 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches). 401[-2], [2, blank and colophon pp. plus folding map and one color plate. Also includes a fold-out plan of each factory at the beginning of every chapter. The main feature of this book are the remarkable industrial photographs throughout by Hein Horny. Publisher's grey/blue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. paste=paper endpapers, original silk marker ribbon. A very good and fresh copy.The volume, published for the 50th anniversary of the Feldmuhle Paper Company, provides an overview of the works of the Feldmuhle and paper production in general. Introduction with an essay by Hans H. Bockwitz "On the Cultural History of Paper". The Feldmuhle cellulose and paper company has a log and distinguished lineage In 1885 the 25-year-old L. Gottstein, a scientist who had just completed his doctorate, purchased the Feldmühle, an old mill at Liebau in Silesia, on the Bober River. He planned to establish a cellulose factory there. The mill, which is first mentioned in 1285, belonged originally to the Cistercian monks of Kloster Grüssau near Liebau. In August 1885, Gottstein, along with other partners, founded the Feldmühle Silesian Sulphite and Cellulose Factory. As cellulose production was waning, it was decided in 1895 that the company itself should undertake paper production. Subsequently a paper factory was established at Cosel and the works at Liebau were also converted for this purpose. In 1899 a second paper factory went into production at Cosel. Because of the company’s increasing size, its headquarters was transferred to Breslau in 1895. In 1928 the company merged with the paper manufacturer Reisholz AG, which owned four factories—at Reisholz, Flensburg, Uetersen, and Arnsberg.Hein Gorny (1904-1967) was a German photographer who, in the spirit of the New Objectivity, mainly made experimental photography, advertising photos, portrait studies, animal photography, material and industrial photos.