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[1350] Fragmented documentation suggests that the glassmaker tradition of the Heubachs had continued for twelve generations before Johann Simon Heubach turns to porcelain manufacturing. During the 250 years to follow, 7 more generations of Heubachs carry on their family's entrepreneurial tradition.
[1764] Johann Simon Heubach marries Isabelle Margareta Greiner and becomes a partner of her father, Johann Georg Greiner. Greiner is the descendant of yet another Thuringian glass maker family, which can be traced back to the 15th century.
In 1764, Greiner founds the Wallendorf and Volkstedt porcelain factories. He plays a significant role in the invention of porcelain, competing with prominent manufacturers such as Dresden, Meissen, Augarten, Herendt, Copenhagen, Sevre and Wedgewood. The Heubach family later expands porcelain manufacturing to Gro遙reitenbach, Kloster-Veilsdorf, K鰌pelsdorf and Lichte, all in the province of Thuringia, Germany. Heubach's porcelain activities reach their peak of fame between 1830 and 1850. Johann Gabriel Heubach, the 9th son of Johann Simon, adds the manufacturing of porcelain dolls to the traditional lines of decorative China and becomes one of Europe's largest exporters in this field. Today Heubach's 19th century porcelain dolls are collectors' items and can be found in museums, auctions and antique fairs mainly in Europe and North America.
[1806] In 1806 the "Goslarer Farbenwerke" (Goslar Colorants' Works) are founded in Goslar, near Hannover by Julius Westen, a partner of Eduard Heu鋍ker. Eduard, Friedrich Louis Heubach磗 father in law operates white pigment operations in Oelze and Osterwieck (near Goslar) after 1830.
[1867] After 1867, the Osterwieck plant operates under Gabriel磗 son, Louis Heubach, who doubles the operation and who receives a gold medal for technological leadership from Emporer Franz Joseph at the 1873 World Fair in Vienna.
[1884] Louis passes his business on to his son Carl Heubach in 1884. Under Carl's direction the operation increases production from 300 to 2.000 t in 1914. During World War I production comes to a total standstill due to raw material shortages.
[1927] Upon the sudden death of his father Carl, Hans Heubach takes over the family operation at the young age of 21. He had just received his PhD in law and was confronted with the task of salvaging the family operation, which, during the inflation and recession of the 20憇, had come close to bankruptcy. Until 1933, he returns the business to a flourishing condition.
During the ?rd Reich?the company comes close to a standstill again due to war related raw material shortages. To continue the business, Hans Heubach initiates two joint-ventures, the first with the paint company "Herberts?and another with "Preussag?to produce zinc oxides. He rebuilds his business successfully a second time only to lose it again a few years later in 1945, when the communists occupy the former East Germany.
[1945] Overnight, Hans and Elisabeth Heubach flee through the iron curtain to Goslar in West-Germany with their 2 children Barbara and Rainer, losing their entire corporate and private possessions to the new Stalinist regime in the Eastern part of Germany.
In 1948 Hans Heubach rebuilds his company a third time with the help of a handful of co-workers, among them the co-inventor of the Kubelka-Munk-Theorie, Franz Munk. They become role models for the "economical miracle?in Western Germany after WW II.
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