Company foundation in "Stadt am Hof"

Georg Rauscher I, born 1886 in Regensburg, started his apprenticeship as a forest ranger. After his master died unexpectedly he had to look for a new apprenticeship, which he found in the Tower Clock Company of Eduard Strobl, founded in 1900. After several years in Regensburg and Berlin and after the end of World War I in 1920 Georg Rauscher finished his master in precision mechanics and founded the Georg Rauscher Tower Clock Manufactory in Stadt am Hof, a city quarter right on the other side of the Danube, facing the dome.

The First Electro Mechanical Tower Clocks

Georg Rauscher was a compulsive problem-solver, fanatically devoted to clocks. His inventions include his first electromechanical clocks, which he built in 1926, thereby creating a sensation. Georg Rauscher achieved his greatest success in 1950 by installing two electromechanical tower clock mechanisms in two towers of the "Theatinerkirche" in Munich. They included altogether six clock faces and pairs of hands. Nearly 60 years later, his last tower clock is still in serve.

Radio Synchronized Quartz Tower Clocks

The old mechanical tower clock movement is now controlled by a master clock synchronized by radio via the official time-signal transmitter of the Federal Institute of Physics and Meterology in Brunswick. In 1978, the grandson of the founder, Georg Rauscher III, accomplished the leap into present-day-state-of-the-art-tower clock construction with a radio synchronized clock on quartz basis which was set in operation in Regensburg's city hall. This constant development has peaked only recently in the fourth generation of the renown, microprocessor controlled DIGITIMER central control clock.