Manufacture de gants Reinhard- Handschuhfabrik Reinhard

The Reinhard glove factory was originally a tannery and dyeing shop founded in 1882 by Albert Reinhard and located in Grund, a district in the middle of Luxembourg City. Reinhard was married to Carolina (Lina) Frank, an aunt of Otto Frank. In the 1890s, he bought more tanneries in the area, expanding his business, including a glove factory.^[1] 

After a fire in December 1904, the business was rebuilt and expanded. The downtown factory on Plaetisgaass (Rue Plaetis) was completed in 1910. At the time, it was the largest industrial company in the city. At its peak, some 1,000 people worked there, including many women. Often all members of families living in the suburbs worked in the glove industry. Adults and younger men worked in tanning and dyeing. Dog feces were used in the tanning process required to produce the coveted glacé gloves. Dyes were made using human urine. Women sewed or embroidered the gloves, either in the factory's own workshops or from home. Fine needles were needed to embroider the gloves. Consequently, young girls whose eyesight was not yet marred by the poor lighting in their suburban homes were in particular demand.

Reinhard further expanded the company by setting up glove-making workshops in Esch-sur-Sûre, Wiltz and Vianden, as well as a dye factory. Some of the merchandise produced was sold on international markets, so the company was hit hard by Luxembourg's economic isolation during World War I. The number of employees fell from 560 in 1914 to 300 by the end of the war. Recovery set in after the war, and at its peak in 1925, the company employed some 1,000 people.

After Albert Reinhard's death in 1924, the company became the property of brothers Siegmund (1869-1944) and Hermann Geiershöfer (1876-1942) from Nuremberg, each of whom was married to a daughter of Carolina Frank and Albert Reinhard: Siegfried with Lucie (1882-1949) and Hermann with Irma (1884-1943).

During World War II, the factory was seized by the German occupiers. In 1941, the company was taken over by the German company Baxmann & Wagner O.H.G. and the production of gloves was discontinued in favour of the manufacture of gas masks.

Fredy Albert Geiershöfer (1907- unknown) and Charlotte Thyes-Geiershöfer (1911-2006), the two children of Hermann and Irma Geiershöfer, had left for the United States in 1940. In 1944-45 they returned and took over the factory again. Gloves and ties were again produced. In the late 1950s, production finally ceased. Fredy Geiershöfer, who officially took the surname Storm (Sturm) from his wife Fanny in 1948,^[2] emigrated to the U.S. with his daughter Marie-Louise. Part of the factory was bought by Funck-Bricher brewery, later Brasserie Nationale. The other part of the building was taken over by the municipality of Luxembourg, which demolished it to create a park.

The part that belonged to the Brasserie Nationale was restored and converted into a residential building in 1985.