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MANNBORG, THEODOR Grimmaische Strasse 410, Borna, Germany in 1889; Kornerplatz 3 & 4 in 1903, Angerstrasse 38 in 1904, 1930, both in Leipzig-Lindenau, Germany. Mannborg was born in Karlstad, Sweden in 1861. He was apprenticed to J.P. Nyström in Sweden, emigrated to Germany in 1886 where he took additional training with the pipe-organ builder Urban Kreutzbach in Borna. He established his factory in 1889 in Borna, building the first suction organs produced in Germany. In 1894 he moved the factory to Leipzig and in 1904 opened a new factory at Angerstrasse 38 in the Lindenau district of Leipzig. Mannborg was instrumental in founding the Association of German Harmonium Manufacturers (Verein Deutscher Harmonium Fabrikanten.) When Theodor Mannborg died in 1930 the business was operated by his son Karl until his death in 1941. The firm was taken over by the state-owned piano manufacturer Rönisch & Hupfeld in 1948, operating as a part of VEB Leipziger Pianofortefabrik Böhlitz-Ehrenberg. Acquired by Lindholm in 1961. See Deutsch Harmonium-Zungen-Fabrik, Lindholm, Hofberg. Serial numbers:

1890 - 50 1930 - 49451 1958 - 65000
1900 - 5600 1935 - 52262 1961 - 66340
1905 - 11500 1940 - 58013 1962 - 66510
1910 - 20893 1945 - 59333 1963 - 66750
1920 - 34704 1950 - 60140 1964 - 67000
1925 - 41721 1952 - 61000 1965 - 67250
1928 - 45286 1955 - 63300 1966 - 67400





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