Abraham Dürninger (Company)

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Abraham Dürninger & Co. GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1747
Seat Herrnhut
management Albrecht Kittler
Number of employees 87 (2005)
sales 6 million euros (2004)
Branch Textile printing , wood processing
Website www.duerninger.com
As of April 1, 2006

Abraham Dürninger & Co. GmbH is a textile printing company in Herrnhut . The company also produces church supplies. Today the company is one of the oldest still existing Saxon companies and is a business enterprise of the Evangelical Brothers Unity .

history

In 1747 Abraham Dürninger took over the common shop of the Moravian Brethren . In 1762 the Dürninger company granted the Saxon king a loan of 17,000 thalers for his travel budget. In 1777 Dürninger exported canvas to the value of 128,298 thalers, making it the largest canvas exporter in Upper Lusatia . At the turn of the century, Abraham Dürninger & Co. developed into the largest Saxon company. The company grew steadily and in 1816 employed around 12,000 spinners and relocated around 2000 weavers. In 1827 Dürninger was the first company in Germany to import cigars from Havana and in 1844 it began producing its own cigars. Dürninger cigars are still produced and sold today.

In order to make living space available to workers of the Dürninger company, the construction of houses for the workers of the bleaching house began in 1891. In 1908 Dürninger acquired a banana drying plant in Suriname and operated its own banana plantation. Since Dürninger has been supplying the Saxon king since 1907, the cigar department was given the title of "court supplier" in 1913. The Abraham Dürninger Foundation was established on November 20, 1925. The Abraham Dürninger Foundation has been the sole shareholder of Abraham Dürninger & Co. GmbH since then.

As a result of the economic crisis, the weaving mills in Weigelsdorf / Silesia as well as in Herrnhut and Schönbach had to be shut down and in 1932 the old trading house was sold to the city of Herrnhut. This used it as a hospital until 1991. In 1937, Dürninger was awarded the "Grand Prix" for fashionable linen at the World Exhibition in Paris. The cigar department now had 22 branches with a total of 1.6 million customers. On May 9, 1945, 80 percent of the "Bleiche" burned down and the headquarters on the corner of Löbauer Strasse and Dürninger Strasse with the archive and museum also fell victim to the flames. The factories, warehouses and cigar stores were destroyed, confiscated and looted. After 10 years, the first mechanical looms were put into operation in 1954, and in 1962 textiles were printed using the screen printing process for the first time. In 1970 weaving machines were purchased for the necessary modernization of the weaving mill. In 1985, a protected operating department was set up for handicapped people who do simple work here under constant supervision.

After the political change in 1989, the business was converted into a limited liability company (GmbH) in 1991. The Abraham Dürninger Foundation is the sole shareholder. The company celebrated its 250th anniversary in 1997. On the occasion of this anniversary, the Federal President Roman Herzog and the Saxon Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf paid a visit to the company.

In 2000, the Herrnhuter Holzwerkstätten GmbH was purchased, which had relocated in particular to the areas of door production and sacred furniture. In 2005 the company invested in a digital printing machine for textiles, the third machine of this technology from Kornit installed in Europe . This new printing technology made it possible to print clothes individually and inexpensively, even in small numbers, starting with single pieces.

literature

  • Hans Wagner: Abraham Dürninger & Co., 1747–1939. A book of Moravian merchants and entrepreneurs . Abraham Dürninger Foundation, Herrnhut, new expanded edition 1940.
  • Paul Peucker, Rüdiger Kröger: Abraham Dürninger - a Moravian businessman . Comenius Bookstore, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Abraham Dürninger & Co. GmbH, Herrnhut. In: saechsische.de. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .