Very nice Ross! For me the german makers came up with the nicest illustrated tins before the war. That Hasag played a questionable role in that war is something I will not elaborate on.... Regards, Mike
A recent find of yet another 00-model prompted me to delve in the history of HASAG further. While being a tainted name also in the Netherlands, for it's employment of forced labourers and indeed large scale slave-laboury during the war, it has nothing to do with the production of stoves, which was dropped around 1934 appearantly. My earlier suggestion that there was a connection with these sinister practises and stoves is therefore wrong. It also suggests that, unlike some lamps produced in E.Germany after the war under the HASAG name, no stoves were made after 1934, which could explain why these stoves are so thin on the ground. Mike
I wonder why they'd keep producing brochures etc if they weren't making the stoves? Plus they took over Stueben around 1938 & the Bat brand of stoves. It would be good to have some more info on that 1934 claim.
I do wonder about that comment, too, because it is simply false. In 1939 Hasag-Catalogue there are 57 pages about Kerosene-stoves, wick-stoves and spirit-stoves All made by hasag. Lamp-production was ended in 1940 for War-production, that is, where all other non-war-products were skipped too. From 1940 on the german Hasag told customers and export-tradingpartners to buy lamps, stoves and so on from other producers, as they could not deliver any longer. Best regards, Björn P.s.Hasg-slave-workers were almost only in eastern-europe Hasag-factories freom 1942 on... but there Hasag emerged to be the third-biggest killingmachine in the "third Reich"
When looking for more info on Hasag I found a remark I made here 2 years ago I wanted to address, as I felt it was not correct. There is plenty information on Hasag as a munitions manufacturer and wartime activities, less so on their other and earlier product range. Several sources, among which a german Wikipedia topic and a 'Hasag Lampe und Kocher' site seem to colaborate on how Hasag as a concern became a 'Wehrmachtsbetrieb' , indicating an exclusive producer of military goods, in 1934. Again, several articles agree this was much more lucrative than producing the domestic ware, which were dropped or sidelined. That is the information I gleaned from several threads and for me this was reason (enough) to correct my earlier suggestion that there was an unsavoury link. That, to me at least, is important. I also mused on how this could explain why so little is seen of Hasag stoves, as the Gallery and indeed the local markets like in Germany and Holland, as I know them, indicate. I thank both of you for the better information you have provided. Even if a correction of 6 years is in order, I am satisfied that Hasag stoves are 'clean'. Mike Meijer
Hi Mike, no problems about that. Interesting may be, that from the 1930ies on, the european market wasn't that major important as almost all households were electrificated. The important markeds from there on were India, south America and Afrika, so that may be the reason why Today on european markeds hasag-products arent that often to find. Best regards, Björn
Well, I will bet you a big orange drink that the use of kerosene stoves among the American Indians was marginal at best (see box2.jpg).
