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Heinrich Diezemann entered the market in 1909: the Heinrich Diezemann (HD) metal goods factory, also based in Leipzig. His first entry for this is made in the commercial register on January 7, 1910. His company, "Metallwarenfabrik" was located at Möckernsche Straße. The first letters of his name are his logo: H, HD or HDL. Heinrich Diezemann took a lot from the Gebr. Schneider company. What is striking are, for example, the same mold structure, the mold list for casting at the beginning of the brochure and the brochure structure. One year after the company was founded, the first catalog with 147 molds appeared in 1910.
Heinrich Diezemann filed an unusual patent during the First World War, a mold for a toy train. On June 28, 1916, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin accepted the application for this utility model "Toy Locomotive" (648697KI. 77f). With just two molds, the parts for a toy locomotive and a wagon can be cast.
The company experienced a change in the 1930s. The figures become more lifelike, more versatile and a new catalog comes out. The focus of the new molds deals with the figures of the Reichswehr (Reichswehr) and the special troops. While Gebr. Schneider released 65 molds for the Reichswehr, Diezemann produced 55 molds. According to a foreign exchange report dated November 25, 1940 the company employs: "(...) 1 employee (the accountant Sauer) and 15 female workers, seven of them working at home."
While most of the mold sides at the company Schneider were held together by a clip made of steel wire, Diezemann used a clip made of sheet steel, which was easier to slide on. Heinrich Diezemann also favored the soot of the petroleum lamp as the best release agent.
Like most of the mould manufacturers of the time, the end of the company coincides with the end of the Second World War. Heinrich Diezemann died on April 6, 1945. Days later the house is completely bombed out. His widow Pauline Diezemann applied on October 11, 1948 as sole heiress to delete the company in the commercial register. The two children Anna and Helene are crossed out in the registration file for Diezemann, indicating that they are deceased or missing.
Diezemann produced a total of 471 figures in 255 molds.
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