Porzellanmanufaktur Höchst

  Founding of the electorally privileged porcelain manufactory Bankruptcy of 1st owner Johann Christoph Göltz Insolvency proceedings by order of the Mainz Pfandamt Successful company management under Johann Heinrich Maas and Laurentius Russinger as model master Transformation of the company into a public limited company
Porcelain modeller Johann Peter Melchior starts working in the manufactory Johann Peter Melchior is model master in Höchst Liquidation of the public limited company; the manufactory becomes state-owned Revolutionary war turmoil and the French occupation of Mainz speed up the decline of the Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur Decommissioning Auction of the Höchst porcelain factory including stock Stoneware forms from the original Höchst figure models in the stoneware factory Damm near Aschaffenburg Stoneware and faience factory Franz Anton Mehlem in Poppelsdorf near Bonn takes over the Höchst models and forms Höchst forms are sold to porcelain manufactory “Dressel, Kister & Cie” in Passau and forms overhauled Höchst models formed into Passau porcelain as “Old Höchst reproductions” City of Höchst purchases a complete set of “Old Höchst reproductions” which are presented in the Bolongaropalast Exhibition and presentation “200 years of Höchst porcelain” in Frankfurt Höchst Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur is re-established by Rudolf Schäfer; production facilities in Sossenheim Production is resumed in Frankfurt-Unterliederbach Hoechst AG and Dresdner Bank become equal partners of the Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur in Frankfurt-Höchst Dalberger Haus is the company headquarters of the Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur in Frankfurt-Höchst Opening of the new production facilities in the Porzellanhof near the Höchst city park in Palleskestraße The government of Hesse and private investors become new shareholders of Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur GmbH through the InvestionsBank Hessen The Porzellanhof at the Stadtpark is the new headquarters