Qualla: Meller Möbelfabrik https://qualla.com/meller-mobelfabrik en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/c/meller-mobelfabrik-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Meller Möbelfabrik https://qualla.com/meller-mobelfabrik Meller Möbelfabrik: Introduction https://qualla.com/meller-mobelfabrik/ Photo credit Afortmann, CC BY-SA 4.0. Somewhere in the imperial palaces of Ethiopia, before the revolution that ended the monarchy, Emperor Haile Selassie had a study made of wood from a sawmill in Melle, Germany. The desk, the cabinets, the chairs - all of it stamped with the superimposed initials MMM. The Meller Möbelfabrik, founded in 1870 in a small Lower Saxon town nobody had heard of, had a way of ending up in unexpected places. For a hundred and five years its furniture traveled out of Melle to ministries, banks, schoolrooms, and one African palace, until the buildings outlived the company and became, in a sense, its memorial.

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/c/meller-mobelfabrik-wp/u1mc-meller-m-belfabrik-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Meller Möbelfabrik: Krumnack's Sawmill, 1870 https://qualla.com/meller-mobelfabrik/ Photo credit Franz Kohnert, CC BY-SA 4.0. It started as J.H. Krumnack, Möbelfabrik, Dampfsägewerk und Holzhandlung - a furniture factory, steam sawmill, and timber yard rolled into one ambitious German compound name. Krumnack chose a plot near the Melle railway station for an obvious reason: he wanted to ship nationwide....

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/c/meller-mobelfabrik-wp/u1mc-meller-m-belfabrik-krumnacks-sawmill-1870.mp3 0:06 2 full Meller Möbelfabrik: Gerhard Kohn, Manager for 53 Years https://qualla.com/meller-mobelfabrik/ Photo credit Franz Kohnert, CC BY-SA 4.0. Franz Kohn of Pundt & Kohn had two sons. Hans stayed in Bremerhaven to run the timber trade. Gerhard moved to Melle to run the new factory, and for the next fifty-three years he did exactly that, with the kind of unbroken stewardship that nineteenth-century capitalism could still...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/c/meller-mobelfabrik-wp/u1mc-meller-m-belfabrik-gerhard-kohn-manager-for-53-years.mp3 0:06 3 full Meller Möbelfabrik: Changing the Name https://qualla.com/meller-mobelfabrik/ Photo credit Franz Kohnert, CC BY-SA 4.0. In August 1937, the family did something that hundreds of German families with Jewish-sounding surnames were doing under National Socialist pressure - they changed their name. Kohn became Kohnert by ministerial decree on 14 August 1937. The brothers were Christian and the request...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/c/meller-mobelfabrik-wp/u1mc-meller-m-belfabrik-changing-the-name.mp3 0:06 4 full Meller Möbelfabrik: The Economic Miracle Years https://qualla.com/meller-mobelfabrik/ Photo credit Franz Kohnert, CC BY-SA 4.0. The factory came through the war undamaged. Postwar Germany needed furniture desperately, and MMM had a distribution network ready to deliver it. At the Cologne Furniture Fair, sales orders piled up faster than the workshop could fulfill them - production was routinely booked out...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/c/meller-mobelfabrik-wp/u1mc-meller-m-belfabrik-the-economic-miracle-years.mp3 0:06 5 full Meller Möbelfabrik: End of the Line https://qualla.com/meller-mobelfabrik/ Photo credit Franz Kohnert, CC BY-SA 4.0. Gerhard Kohnert died on 5 July 1962, after fifty-three years as general manager. His brother Hans took over, but the company's three-storey factory buildings - the very thing that made the works look impressive in 1904 - were now an industrial liability. Material flowed up and do...

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