====== Assmann, Julius ======
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**Julius Assmann** was a [[Glashütte]] watch manufacturer.

Julius Assmann as one of the pioneers of the watch industry is closely linked with the [[Glashütte]] watches history. He was was born in Stettin on 2 October [[1827]] and there he learned the craft of watchmaking. He gained further knowledge at Berlin chronometer makers before he worked from [[1850]] at [[Lange, Ferdinand Adolph|Ferdinand Adolph Lange]] in whose company [[A. Lange & Söhne|A. Lange, Dresden]]. [[1852]], on the advice of Lange he opened a watch [[manufacture]] in [[Glashütte]], the **J. Assmann/Glashütte i.SA, Deutsche Anker-Uhren-Fabrik**.

Assmann in [[1853]] he married the sister of the Dresden master watchmaker [[Schneider, Adolf|Adolf Schneider]], Emilie Auguste Schneider. From this marriage comes his son Paul. After the death of his first wife, in [[1865]] he married the daughter Marie of [[Lange, Ferdinand Adolph|Ferdinand Adolph Lange]] and so became his son in law.

Julius Assmann contributed to the establishment of the [[German Watchmaker School Glashütte]] in Glashütte and in [[1885]] was elected its chairman. He died a year later, on August 15, [[1886]].

In honor of the merits of Assmann and as a demonstration of their own excellence [[Glashütte Original]] launched the Assmann Edition, a series of limited and expensive luxury models, coveted among watch collectors.

===== Literature =====
  *[[Das große Uhrenlexikon]]; Author [[Fritz von Osterhausen]]; ISBN 3898804305


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