![]() ![]() #75 W.T.Kirkman Clear Globe for Feuerhand #75 Atom Lantern $39.95 USD Add to cart Quick View.#1175/#838 W.T.Kirkman Clear Globe for Feuerhand #175 Lantern $16.95 USD Add to cart Quick View.Feuerhand #1276 “Baby Special” Suprax Globe $18.95 USD Add to cart Quick View.Feuerhand #261 Fuel Cap (20.5 mm) $6.95 – $7.95 USD Select options Quick View.Feuerhand #275/#276 Baby Special Rising Cone Burner $11.95 – $13.95 USD Select options Quick View.#SK1 Storm Kappe Food Warmer For Feuerhand #276 Lantern $54.00 USD Add to cart Quick View.Feuerhand Transport Bag $42.50 USD Read more Quick View.Stainless Steel Reflector For Feuerhand #276 Lantern $42.50 USD Select options Quick View.Rated 5.00 out of 5 $44.95 USD Select options Quick View In the Fall of 2014, the “Feuerhand” trademark was acquired by the Petromax group, and continues production of the Feuerhand Baby Special #276 lantern in Hohenlockstedt, which is proudly marked “Made in Germany.” The worldwide renowned Feuerhand brand hurricane lanterns perpetuate a tradition that is more than one hundred years old. Since 1989, the #276 Baby Special cold blast lantern has been the only Feuerhand model still in production. While the brand name “Feuerhand” still belonged to the Nier family, the factory in Beierfeld, as well as the original blueprints were taken over by the publicly owned operation “Volkseigener Betrieb Metallwaren,” (VEB MEWA,) which continued production in the GDR using the trademark “BAT” until 1990. The family fled to the West to Lüdenscheid in Westphalia and established a small lantern production factory, which was moved to Hohenlockstedt in Schleswig-Holstein in 1949. After the war, the Nier family was expropriated, and the factory machines were dismantled and brought into the Soviet Union. Like many factories, Nier Feuerhand ended up focusing on military production. With the beginning of World War II, the international market collapsed, resulting in a drop in production. ![]() Over this period of time, several new patent applications were made, amongst other things for the improvement of the burners and the development of a windbreak, the so-called “Sturmkappe”. became the biggest producer of hurricane lanterns in the world. The manufacture of the well-known “Baby” series hurricane lanterns began in 1933. Then in 1926, the patents as well as the trademark “Firehand” were also registered in the USA. In 1914 he registered the “Feuerhand” trademark, and in 1920 the round Feuerhand emblem was added to the brand. The same year, he applied for a patent for the solder-less method of manufacturing lanterns using stamping and crimping techniques with tinning using molten zinc. Owing to differences with Frankonia, Hermann Nier left and started his own hurricane lantern factory, “Hermann Nier Feuerhandwerk” in 1902. bought up the operation and hired the Nier brothers as managers. Five years later the Frankonia Albert Frank Metalware Co. In 1893, brothers Hermann and Ernst Nier started producing their first hurricane lanterns in Beierfeld in the Saxon Ore Mountains of Germany. ![]()
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