Bowden / the company business premises, with subtle design features, of Jansen, successor to H Geisler the Furrier, South Australia

            Jansen, Successor to H Geisler – Tanner, Furrier, Dyer

Herman Geisler established this business in 1890 after migrating from Neumarkt, Silesia (Germany) nearly twenty years earlier. 
Geisler operated at Bowden, attaining a nation-wide reputation for the outstanding quality of his products. 
He also was the first in Australia to import fur sewing machines. 

Not long after Geisler’s death in 1933, his daughter Sylvia married Norman Hugh Jansen: and from 1936 the business appeared as “Jansen, successor to H Geisler”, with Silvia Jansen at the helm.  Silvia had worked in her father’s business and continued specialising in furs. She was the proprietress.

*The following is an Obituary published in The Advertiser 10 June 1933:-
MR H GEISLER DEAD
Pioneer Furrier and Tanner
Mr Herman Geisler, who died at his home, Drayton street, Bowden, on Thursday, at the age of 72, was one of the leading furriers in the Commonwealth, and was largely responsible for demonstrating the value of the furs of Australian animals. 

Mr Geisler arrived in South Australia with 2/6 in his pockets 53 years ago, and at the time of his death had one of the most valuable stocks in Australia of furs from all parts of the world. 

Born at Neumarkt, Silesia (Germany), Mr Geisler came to Port Adelaide as a youth of 19, and almost to Morgan, on the River Murray, and set up in business as a tanner, woolscourer, and fellmonger, a trade which he had learnt in Germany. It was here that Mr Geisler. who was a keen hunter, realised that the skins of the Australian kangaroo, wallaby, and opossum had a high market value. He found that kangaroo and wallaby made a leather unexcelled for boot uppers, and that opossum skins for coats and rugs were extremely hard wearing.

It was not until Mr Geisler moved to Bowden in 1890 that he went into the fur business seriously and soon had established a big business with wholesale houses in all States, and exported Australian leathers and furs, especially the opossum to all parts of the world. He introduced the making of chrome leather to Australia, and is the last of the original band of tanners who made Australian leathers famous for their outstanding quality. He was also the first Australian to import fur sewing machines from Germany.

Mr Geisler had a large circle of friends, and took more interest in hunting and shooting than in any other sport. He passed on his secrets for the tanning and dressing of leather and furs to his family. He left a widow, previously Miss Bertha Laura Thamm, of Morgan: two sons, Messrs Herbert Geisler (Prospect) and Albert Geisler (Bowden), and three daughters, Mrs W Gray (Dulwich) and Misses Sylvia and Emma Geisler (Bowden).

*The Advertiser 29-8-1934 reported on Silvia Geisler’s marriage:-
Jansen — Geisler Wedding
On August 18, at the Lutheran Church, Flinders Street, decorated with flowers for the occasion, the marriage was celebrated by the Rev Dr William Janzow of Sylvia Minnie, second daughter of the late Mr Hermann Geisler, of Drayton street, Bowden, to Norman Hugh Jansen, of Melbourne.

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