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A Pöllmann bass by Günter Krahmer, 1963.
The instrument had an accident a few years ago, and has repairs to the top, back and neck.
The founder of the Pöllmann workshop was Hermann Alexander Pöllmann (1864–1937). In 1888 he founded his company in Siebenbrunn near Markneukirchen to concentrate on the construction of double basses. His son Erich Max Pöllmann (1897–1963) grew up in the workshop and worked with his father from 1911. In 1920, Erich Max decided to open his own shop in the house of his father-in-law, the violin maker August Ernst Voigt, in Jugelsburg near Adorf in the Vogtland region. In 1940, E.M. Pöllmann moved back to Markneukirchen and received his master craftsman’s certificate in 1944. Erich was known as an excellent craftsman. His basses are known for their large orchestral sound. Erich Max Pöllmann is also the one who started with the fine decorations on the tops and backs of his instruments. Günter Krahmer-Pöllmann, born in 1938, was the third generation to build Pöllmann double basses. He was the nephew of Erich Max Pöllmann and the grandson of August Ernst Voigt. Günter worked for his uncle from 1952 to 1959. After his championship title in 1959, he left the former GDR and moved to Mittenwald in the Bavarian Alps, where he worked and lived until his death in 2020.