Germany / Saxony-Anhalt / Buckau (today Magdeburg-Buckau):

Comment:

I would like to thank Mr. Jens-Uwe Teichfischer for his additions in this matter which again show that many so-called 'reference books' contain many flaws that are copied over years without somebody actually verifying the information.

[1] : Buckauer Porzellan-Manufaktur (1839 until ????)

Around 1756 a faience and stoneware factory had been founded in the town of Magdeburg and the success of that business might have been the reason that the printer Falkenberg and the lithography specialist Rieß in 1838 decided to buy a stretch of land in the nearby town of Buckau (which later became part of Magdeburg) to build a porcelain factory which was finally finished and took up production in 1839.

At first the company specialized on household goods and tableware but soon also started to manufacture hotel porcelain and restaurant ware. After the company had been using the eagle mark for some time it caught the attention of the 'Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur' (K.P.M.) in Berlin which officialy protested in 1859, forcing the Buckau factory to change its mark from the eagle into the BPM banner version.

It should be noted that a few designs produced by the Buckau factory were designed by Friedrich Maximilian von Heider (short Fritz von Heider), a well-known painter, designer and ceramics artist who was not only a teacher at the 'Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerkerschule' in Magdeburg but later also worked together with artists like Rudolf Bosselt and Hermann Muthesius (the latter was the founder of the 'Deutscher Werkbund').

Even if there is not much known about the following years, at least the 'Handbuch der Keramikindustrie' lists the company in 1913 with an entry stating 'Buckauer Porzellanmanufactur Akt.-Ges., gegr. 1823' and notes that the company employed 200 workers. That entry is of course highly puzzling as the founding date of 1823 is far off, however there are a few indicators that the founders actually took over an existing factory (belonging to a Mr. Paul Müller (?)) and then bought additional land to expand their business, hence the confusion. For now, I will leave the company founding date as 1838 and its official start of production in 1839 until I receive more information that confirm the earlier history. That seems to be the last entry until another source indicates the factory existed until shortly before the outbreak of WWII - however, no later marks than the 1859 introduced banner mark have been found so far and it his highly improbable that a company would use the same mark for nearly 80 years.

[2] : Buckauer Porzellanmanufaktur Ernst Lindner (1946 until 195?)

After the war the company was re-registered on October 22nd 1946 by Ernst Lindner who already in 1929 had founded the 'Porzellanmanufaktur Ernst Lindner' (Lindner Porzellan) in Küps (Bavaria) but even if the entry never was officially removed, the factory in Buckau soon cheased to exist. Rumor has it that the Buckau factory was used as external art/decoration department for the Lindner factory until 1950 after which the factory in Küps received its own art department; perhaps that is the reason there are no marks from the Buckau factory that fit the Lindner period.

Germany / Saxony-Anhalt / Buckau (today Magdeburg-Buckau):

Marks

[1] : Used from around 1840 until the dispute with KPM Berlin in 1859.

[1] : Slightly blurry example of the first eagle mark.

[1] : Used from around 1840 until the dispute with KPM Berlin in 1859.

[1] : Used from around 1844 onwards.

[1] : Used from around 1859/1860 onwards.

[1] : Used from around 1859/1860 onwards.