Schwemann & pieces

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The new Schwemann & pieces office building built in 1899 at Kestnerstraße 63 (right) in the southern part of Hanover

Schwemann & stücke in Hanover was an iron and metal wholesaler founded in the 19th century .

history

The Schwemann family from the beginning of the 19th century

The history of the Schwemann family in Hanover from Lippstadt is closely linked to that in Hildesheim, where the coppersmith and merchant Dietrich Wilhelm Schwemann , who moved from Lippstadt , founded the later EFG Schwemann in 1807 .

The same family from Lippstadt ran the Halbmeierhof 6 in Kirchrode near Hanover from 1845 .

According to a supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung of April 8, 1854, "[...] the merchant DW Schwemann zu Canton was appointed consul of the Kingdom of Hanover there."

In 1867, Consul Schwemann made a house available to the Henriettenstiftung in Kirchrode on the condition that a waiting school be set up for the village youth . Five years later, the building was donated to the Foundation in 1872, which set up an infirmary there. It was not until 1964 that the house was demolished for the construction of the Simeon Church .

Stork & Droop from 1862

At the time of the industrialization of the Kingdom of Hanover, the company was founded on January 1, 1862, initially as "Eisenhandlung Stork & Droop". As business premises, the company had its own building erected in the then royal seat at the address Prinzenstrasse 13 at the time .

As an exhibitor of color products was Droop & Storck , based in Osnabrück and Hanover and the owners Karl droop and Dietrich Stork on the 1873 World Exhibition in Vienna represented. They presented their offer in Group III, Germany, Chemical Industry on stand 8a of the southern transverse gallery.

Also in 1873, the Association of German Engineers (VDI) reported, among other things, on the membership of the businessman Droop from the iron shop and the entry of the manufacturer Droop from the Hanoverian company Dreyer, Rosenkranz & Droop .

Schwemann & pieces from 1893

More than three decades after the company was founded, the business was taken over on January 1, 1893 by Heinrich Pieces († January 5, 1927 in Hanover) and by Otto Schwemann , who was born in Hildesheim and whose great-grandfather was an important family iron business in Hildesheim as early as 1805 had founded.

A few years after taking over the business in Hanover, the premises there proved to be too cramped for further expansion. Therefore, in 1899, a new office building was built at Kestnerstrasse 63 with large storage rooms on both sides of the new corner building. But even there the space was no longer sufficient after a few years, so that a large storage area was added at the Südbahnhof at Kleine Düwelstraße 23 and 25 with a railway siding, a crane system and storage facilities, especially for long and heavy material. In the course of time the area was expanded and built on.

In the middle of World War I, Hanover's city director Heinrich Tramm sent a circular to one hundred of the financially strongest citizens of Hanover in May 1916 with the request for "[...] generous foundations " to build up a first-class collection of pictures by German artists. Among the addressees was the company Schwemann & PIECES , which, according to the answer on August 8th of that year, "[...] unfortunately saw itself not in a position to spend money for this".

In 1927, during the Weimar Republic , pieces died while working, so that Hermann Schwemann initially continued the company as sole owner .

Otto Schwemann died in 1940 at the time of National Socialism and in the middle of World War II - the company was now run by his son Eberhard . This supplemented the trading portfolio with a department for special steel screws as well as sanitary requirements and fittings and delivered far beyond the borders of Lower Saxony.

During the air raids on Hanover , the office building in Kestnerstrasse was hit by aircraft and incendiary bombs during the first major attack on the night of September 8th to 9th, 1943 , but initially only partially burned out. While the business premises had been relocated to a private apartment at Heinrichstrasse 29 , the building in Kestnerstrasse was repeatedly hit by bombs, almost to the point of complete destruction.

Immediately after the war and with the approval of the British military authorities , the rebuilding of the company began under Herbert Schwemann in a now higher office building at Kestnerstrasse 63 , which was completed in November 1948 . In 1954, a three-story extension was built next to the office building in Kestnerstrasse.

After Schwemann & Pieces was last located at the address Gutenberghof 5–6 , it went into liquidation in 2000 and insolvency proceedings in 2001 . The buildings were then torn down.

Schwemannstrasse

Schwemannstrasse , which was laid out in the Kirchrode district of Hanover in 1926 , was named after the family from Lippstadt who ran Kirchröder Halbmeierhof 6 from 1845 .

See also

Archives and bequests

Archives and references to legacies from the company's history and the biographies of the people involved can be found, for example

  • in the Hanover State Archives under the registration number HR XC7.14 a reply from the Schwemann ironworks and items dated August 8, 1916 to a letter from the Hanover city director Heinrich Tramm;
  • an auction catalog of several smaller art collections and estates, including the collections of Consul Jenny Schwemann, † Hannover-Waldhausen, published for the auction from December 10th to 16th by the auction house JM Heberle (H. Lempertz 'Sons) in Cologne . ..
  • as a template to imprint a photograph for roofs of hardware shop at the site of the former company building on the road Gutenberghof corner Berliner Allee in Hanover.

literature

  • Helmut Plath , Herbert Mundhenke , Ewald Brix : Schwemann & Stück KG, Eisen- und Metallgroßhandlung Hannover , with a photo imprint of the Kestnerstraße 62 office building after the - completed - reconstruction including the newly added wing, in this: Heimatchronik der Stadt Hannover , Cologne , Archive for German Home Care, 1956, pp. 451f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Paul Siedentopf : Schwemann & pieces. In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig (1927), p. 203
  2. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Schwemannstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 225
  3. ↑ Kai-Uwe Hollweg, Benedikt Mahr, Uwe Niederprüm (responsible): EFG Schwemann ... on the page efg-gruppe.de , in the version of January 29, 2016 stored long-term in the Internet Archive
  4. ↑ Johann Friedrich von Cotta , ibid., No. 98 of April 8, 1854, p. 1566; online through google books
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Neß: The old village. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, city of Hanover, part 2, volume 10.2, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 92f., As well as Kirchrode in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , status July 1, 1985, City of Hanover. Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 19f., Here: p. 19
  6. ^ NN: World Exhibition 1873 in Vienna. Official General Catalog , second increased edition, Vienna: Verlag der General-Direction, printer of the journal “Die Presse”, 1873, p. 322; online through google books
  7. ^ Journal of the Association of German Engineers , Vol. 17 (seventeenth year), Berlin: Self-published by the association; Commissionsverlag by Rudolph Gaertner, 1873; passim ; Preview over google books
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g N.N. : Schwemann & Pieces KG In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover 1954 , with textual and editorial assistance from Heinz Lauenroth (director of the municipal press office), Ewald Brix (IHK Hanover), Herbert Mundhenke (municipal archivist) and the Hanover Chamber of Crafts , Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, Hannover 1954, p. 159.
  9. ↑ a b Ines Katenhusen : Patronage in the "Tramm era" , in this: Art and Politics. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art , in the series Hanoverian Studies, series of publications by the Hanover City Archives , Volume 5, Hanover: Hahn , 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , pp. 192ff. (on this footnote 174, p. 315); Preview over google books
  10. ↑ a b Helmut Plath, Herbert Mundhenke, Ewald Brix: Schwemann & Stück KG, Eisen- und Metallgroßhandlung Hannover , with a photo imprint of the Kestnerstraße 62 office building after the - completed - reconstruction, including the newly added side wing, in this: home chronicle of the city Hanover , Cologne, Archive for German Homeland Care, 1956, pp. 451f.
  11. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Schwemann & pieces, Eisen- u. Metal wholesaler. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 558.
  12. ↑ Hermann-Josef Brand: Schwemann, Friedrich-Wilhelm on his page hildesheim-lexikon.jimdo.com in the version of January 28, 2016
  13. ↑ Information and access to the digitized content of the Heidelberg University Library via the Central Directory of Digitized Prints
  14. ↑ Karl Johaentges (photos), Udo Iwannek (text): a huge roof garden over an iron shop (caption), in this: Under Hanover's roofs , 2nd edition (6th - 8th thousand), Hanover: KaJo-Verlag, 1991, ISBN 978-3-925544-03-3 and ISBN 3-925544-03-8 , p. 38

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '23.9 "  N , 9 ° 45' 4.8"  E