Thread: Linder Solingen - any good?

Just wondering if anyone has heard of or tried these razors?
Company seems to have a long history, and the razors seem to be priced well, with some rather different looking scales.

Click on the UK flag and onto straight razors at the very bottom of the left navigation pane.

Linder Solingen: Messer - Knives - Couteaux

Cheers,
- Mike

never heard of the brand
it are nice razors though
but i doubt that they are shave ready
grts
Stijn

They remind me of those Timor razors. I don't know enough about them to give you any opinion based on fact, but I can tell you for that price you can buy blades where you needn't take the risk - which you would be taking with such an unknown brand. Unless others can speak for them, I'd steer clear.

yeah, no for sure, just stumbled across them and never heard of them before, so thought I'd share

I have seen these recently pop up on ebay as well though the seller sells everything from the Kreiger/Tomahawks to Dovo so who knows.

Hi All
This is my first post although I've been a member for some time. First of all I'd like to thank you for a really good forum and long may it continue. Anyway getting back to why I'm writing this. I have found a website that may be of interest, it has most (if not all) makers of razors in Solingen dating back many years. It has
Linder & Co., Linderwerk, Solingen in 1932. Razor-blade maker.
Linder & Co., Junkerwerk, Solingen-Ohligs in 1932. Brand name: 'Morning Star'. Razor-blade maker.
Whether this is the same company I don't know.
Their web address is Razor makers
I think it's worth taking a look at.

Originally Posted by Bullah

Hi All
This is my first post although I've been a member for some time. First of all I'd like to thank you for a really good forum and long may it continue. Anyway getting back to why I'm writing this. I have found a website that may be of interest, it has most (if not all) makers of razors in Solingen dating back many years. It has
Linder & Co., Linderwerk, Solingen in 1932. Razor-blade maker.
Linder & Co., Junkerwerk, Solingen-Ohligs in 1932. Brand name: 'Morning Star'. Razor-blade maker.
Whether this is the same company I don't know.
Their web address is Razor makers
I think it's worth taking a look at.

That site's great but it refers to a prewar manufacturer as far as I can see. As regards the site in the original post. Looks to me as though, you pays your money, you takes your chances. Personally, from what I see, I wouldn't, on either score but I await correction.

As far as I know, the only current production razors from Germany are Dovo, Revisor, Boker, and Henckels.

I'm curious, but skeptical.

Someone with a few bucks to spare needs to try one of these. I kind of like the scale designs -- nice too see something different that isn't wrapped around a Pakistani blade.

With a long history like this, I'm thinking they more than likely sell 'proper' razors, rather than hunks of steel that are shaped like razors... but maybe someone will pick one up and tell us all what they think...




1870
Records in the Solingen City Archive hold information on the knife maker Carl Wilhelm Linder. He was born in 1816, and in 1870 he had his workshop in a little hamlet named Bech, now part of Solingen. So far it has not been traced whether he was the founder of the little enterprise or had taken over the tradition from his father. He had seven children. His youngest son Carl, born 1869 was to carry on his father´s shop.

by 1890
Carl Wilhelm Linder had passed away and his son Carl was sole proprietor. He continued to work in his fathers old workshop at Bech at least until 1901.

by 1903
Carl Linder had moved to larger premises on Weyerstr. Nr. 63. His business had outgrown the space available in his father´s place.

by 1908
The volume of business had reached a point where it had to be registered as a company. Carl Linder was entered into the local Trade Register on Oct. 10, 1908. It is this date which has so far been referred to as the date of foundation.

1911
The 1911 Solingen directory mentions that the Carl Linder company had moved to Hauptstr. Nr. 45. In those days Carl Linder was one of the many manufacturers of pocket knives. His products even as early as 1911 were mainly hunting knives.

1918
On the 28th day of May 1918, close to the end of WWI Carl Linder bought the property Erholungstr. 5/7. He was in his late forties when he settled at this address for good. Soon after the war he was able to supply his merchandise to many export markets. The big crisis of world economy in 1929 seems to have hit Carl Linder hard. Business had gone down to a small volume when he died in 1936 at the age of 66.
Carl Linder had no successor. His only child, a daughter, had no interest in the company. So the widow of Carl Linder sold property and company with all legal rights to Paul Rosenkaimer on May 24th, 1937. Paul Rosenkaimer, a knife maker of old Solingen heritage, chose to call the company Carl Linder Nachf. - The addition "Nachf." is an abbreviation of the German word "Nachfolger" - in English "Successor". This company name is unchanged today.

1939-1948
Little more than two years after Paul Rosenkaimer had taken over WWII brought most Linder activities to an end. Hunting knives were of no importance for wartime production. Workers were either drafted to the army or to work in the arms industries. Paul Rosenkaimer and his wife continued making knives until he was drafted in 1943. His wife was left alone on the property Erholungstr. 5/7 when his 15 year old son was also drafted in 1943. She stayed until it was victim of a bombing on Dec. 31, 1944.
House and factory remained ruins until 1948. Paul Rosenkaimer and his son Siegfried got the licence to rebuild house and workshop by the middle of 1948. They completed this task - with little help from outside - by the end of 1948. The machinery was set up early 1949 and after a gap of nearly 10 years business was reopened on.

1949
April 1st 1949. Now it was a cooperation of father and son. Wages were low, there was a cry for goods to replace wartime losses, and Carl Linder Nachf. was soon to outgrow space for the production in Erholungstr.5/7. Fortunately a larger place (located opposite Erholungstr.5/7 - consisting of house, large factory building and gardens) was for sale in 1953 . This property, address Erholungstr. 10., was bought by the Rosenkaimer family.

1957
In 1957 a new building was erected on Erholungstr. 10, and in 1958 all production and machinery was moved into the new production building. Erholungstr. 5/7 continued to serve as warehouse and office building.

1976
The large old factory building located on Erholungstr. 10 had been occupied by a manufacturer of surgical instruments. When this company moved out in 1976, the building was modernized and in 1977 Carl Linder Nachf. finally moved office and warehouse over to the present location.

1980-1981
Paul Rosenkaimer was 80 years old when his grandson Stephan S. Rosenkaimer entered the company in Jan. 1980. Since that time Stephan Rosenkaimer is in charge of the office and modernized the operation. His brother Peter P. Rosenkaimer joined the company one year later. He is a professional tool- and die-maker, is in charge of the production. He designs and develops the manufacturing of new Linder knives.

1985
On March 2nd, 1985 Paul Rosenkaimer passed away. His son Siegfried Rosenkaimer followed him as proprietor of the company.