was a company which produced stoneware and was founded in 1923 by Dr Gustav Loebenstein,[1] his wife Margarete (née Heymann) and Daniel Loebenstein, housed on a lease basis in a former cocklestove factory, as the successor of the manufacturing company Petry in Marwitz, in the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
New investment was needed for the continuation of the business in the old cocklestove factory, which Margarete Loebenstein closed down at the beginning of July 1933.
[3] As Nora Herz wrote to Hedwig Bollhagen, Margarete Loebenstein was expected back on 17 November for new negotiations on the basis of the agreements made previously.
Heinrich Schild, who had already given his support to the workers who were laid off at the Velten works of the Velten-Vordamm stoneware factory as a bankruptcy advisor in 1931, restarted the negotiations and, on 1 May 1934, through the founding of the HB Workshops for Ceramics, was able to set up a new workplace for the employees of the stoneware factories, under the artistic direction of Hedwig Bollhagen.
[4] Margarete Loebenstein received a share in the profits and was now in Berlin, devoting her attention to painting, with some success.