Gottlieb Theodor Hase (1818 - 1888)

1818

Birth of Gottlieb Theodor Hase on 18th January 1818 in Erfurt. His parents were day labourer and tailor Lorenz Ha(a)se and his wife Martha Maris, née Rudloff. Baptism on 19th January.

1847

Marriage to Maria Katharina Leopoldine née Wiser (*Freiburg, 15th November 1817) in Freiburg’s Ludwigskirche on 28th June. The couple live in Erfurt.

1848

November to April 1849: stays as a portrait painter and wandering photographer in Bayreuth.

1849

May to August: as a wandering photographer in Bamberg; from August as a photographer with his own studio in Würzburg.

Birth of son Franz Gustav Theodor Hase in Würzburg on 20th September.

1851

Birth of daughter Ida Johanna Hase on 13th April.

In October/November 1851: G. Th. Hase participates in the “Local Industry Exhibition” in Würzburg.

1852

In June: departure from Würzburg and until August: works as a wandering photo-grapher in Baden-Baden and Offenburg.

Arrives in Freiburg mid-August and opens the “Artistic Photographic Establishment” in Oberlinden, house no. 571 (today, Oberlinden 15).

1853

Birth of son Friedrich (Fritz) on 11th January.

1855–1859

Collaboration with physics professor Johann Heinrich Jakob Müller (1809–1875) to photograph the solar spectrum.

1857

Moves to Kaiserstraße, house no. 460 (later, premises of the Freiburger Zeitung newspaper).

Birth of daughter Hermine Sophie Emilie on 3rd July 1857.

1858/59

Awarded the title “court photographer” by Grand Duke Friedrich II of Baden.

1863

Opening of the photographic establishment Gottlieb Theodor Hase in Haus Blust, Kaiserstraße (house no. 528, today Kaufhof).

Acquires citizenship rights for the Duchy of Baden and for Freiburg.

1865

Participates in the “International Photographic Exhibition” in Berlin. Award for landscape photographs.

1871

Completion of his own residential house with studio on Karlsplatz 4 (today, Erasmusstraße no. 8).

1878

Fritz Hase joins his father’s business which now operates as “Photographic Establishment G. Th. Hase & Son”.

1888

Death of Gottlieb Theodor Hase on 4th July in Freiburg at the age of 70. His son Fritz continues to operate the studio.

1895

Death of Gottlieb Theodor Hase’s widow Leopoldine on 28th February at her house on Karlsplatz at the age of 87.

1904

Fritz Hase sells the studio to photographers Max Heß and Joseph Schrödel. They continued operations until the year 1905 under the name “G. Th. Hase and Son, court photographer, successors”; after ending their business partnership, as “Max Heß Hase & Son, successor” from 1908 onwards.

1906

Death of Fritz Hase on 1st July in Freiburg at the age of 53.