Life

Ernst March was born on 30 June 1798 in Pankin (Pommern). After a theory as in the furnace factory Tobias Feilners was it for short time partner. 1846 it created however its own company, the March clay/tone goods factory on the zoo field in Charlottenburg. The former factory site with the and the house is today in the area of the technical University of Berlin.

The Manufaktur manufactured for the time being simple industrial ceramic(s) in the form of forms for the sugar industry, specialized however since beginning of the 1840er years in Terrakotta and Majolikaproduktion. March became the prominent Terrakottaproduzenten and competed Feilners factory. Feilner had died 1839. Friedrich August gave about 1844 the Terrakotten for the in order and walked on later with the building of the new museum with the iron constructions and from pot bricks from Marchs to clay/tone goods factory new technical ways.

At burning the for the atrium in the below the Orangerieschlosses in potsdam, a work of Ludwig Persius, March 1846 worked because of the length of the columns in the zugigen boiler house of the factory, he got himself a cold, which degenerated in a kidney and a lung suffering, as his son Paul in its life memories wrote. At the consequences of this illness Ernst March died on 14 February 1847. Its grave lies on the Luisenfriedhof I.

After its death took over its widow Sophie March, born cellars as well as the sons Paul and Emil the clay/tone goods factory, the further high-quality Terrakotten for well-known and prestigious buildings like citizens of Berlin the museum of arts and crafts, the station or the red city hall. Its son Otto became an architect. Around 1896 employ the factory Ernst March & of 150 workers and used annually 30000 hundredweights clay/tone. 1902 fused the factory with homogeneous enterprises to German clay/tone and stoneware works AG and the production in Charlottenburg were given up.

Selection of buildings with Terrakotten of the clay/tone goods factory Ernst March &

• 1844/46 Terrakotten for the Berlin
• around 1844 bowl-carrying group of children from Terrakotta, close Obeliskportal, park Sanssouci, potsdam
• 1845/46 twelve and 4 vases in the atrium of the potsdam
• between 1847 and 1851 five Musen from Terrakotta, in the round niches of the south terrace at the mill house of the historical mill of Sanssouci
• 1848-1850 eighty sandstone columns with korinthischen Kapitellen from Terrakotta, Campanile of the peace church, park Sanssouci
• around 1850 vases from Terrakotta between the korinthischen columns at the gatekeeper's house and park Sanssouci
• around 1850 Terrakotten, pot bricks and floor mats for the new museum, Berlin
• between 1850 and 1861 female garb statue and Amphoren from Terrakotta, niches in the OG of the Orangerieschlosses (central tract)
• 1854 Terrakotten for the University of, king mountain
• 1850/51 Terrakotten at the triumph gate in potsdam, together with the Manufaktur of Tobias Feilner
• 1858-1860 Terrakotten at the entrance of the Borsig mechanical engineering institute to the Chauseestrasse of Heinrich Strack. After task of the factory into the garden of the technical University of Berlin shifts 1887, 1901
• 1861-1869 Terrakotten red city hall, Berlin
• 1866-1868 Terrakotten for the station, Berlin
• 1877-1881 Terrakotten at the former museum of arts and crafts, the today's Martin Gropius building, Berlin

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