Ankerwerk (Rudolstadt)
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1876 |
| Seat | Rudolstadt , Germany |
| management | Hans-Heinrich Tschoepke |
| Branch | Toys |
| Website | www.ankerstein.de |
The Ankerwerk , now operated by Anker Steinbaukasten GmbH , is a traditional factory for chemical-pharmaceutical preparations and remedies and later the Anker Steinbaukasten GmbH . The plant is located in Rudolstadt in Thuringia.
founding
The Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, to which Rudolstadt belonged at that time, had not ratified the German pharmaceutical law of 1871. That is why the Herford- born Friedrich Adolf Richter saw greater entrepreneurial opportunities in Rudolstadt than elsewhere. In 1876 he founded his company as F. Ad. Richter & Cie. Manufacture and distribution of chemical-pharmaceutical preparations and medicines . In addition, raw materials for its pharmaceutical products from the Rudolstadt area were significant for the choice of Rudolstadt as a company location.
Soon Richter expanded its product range. In addition to chocolate, jukeboxes and printed products, the Anker stone building sets (an invention of the brothers Otto and Gustav Lilienthal ) led to the company's rapid expansion. In 1880 Richter built a new building for their production. The construction templates for the construction kits were developed in an affiliated art institute for illustrators and architects. In Vienna, St. Petersburg, London and New York branches and branches were set up for the world's first system toy. As an imperial and royal court and chamber supplier , Richter also reached imperial children's rooms.
After 1910
After the death of Friedrich Adolf Richter in 1910, the factory was to be divided into several individual companies at the request of the heirs. From 1921 to the 1930s, the AG was divided into individual companies by the main shareholder Alfred Eversbusch , which remained connected through his person.
After the end of the war, the production of cosmetics, plasters (anchor plastic) and remedies was resumed under Alfred Eversbusch. After the expropriation of Eversbusch, the state-owned company was renamed VEB Ankerwerk Rudolstadt in 1953 . From 1969 eye drops were produced, and from 1970 aerosols and sprays were also produced. In 1974 the company was incorporated into the Pharmaceutical Combine Drugs Plant Dresden .
After 1990
In 1990 the company became the property of the Treuhandanstalt and was incorporated into the Hexal Group as Aeropharm GmbH in 2003, which was taken over by Novartis in 2005 and integrated into Sandoz . As part of the new group of companies, Aeropharm GmbH is responsible for the global development and production of asthma sprays and eye drops.
The state-owned company VEB Anker-Steinbaukasten was closed in 1963. Thanks to an initiative by acoustics professor Georg Plenge , as well as support from the EU and the State of Thuringia , production of the Anker stone building sets was resumed in 1995. The company traded as Anker-Steinbaukasten GmbH . In 2009, Gerhard Gollnest and Fritz-Rüdiger Kiesel took over Anker-Steinbaukasten GmbH. The Anker Bausteinkasten GmbH was part of the Gollnest & Kiesel group of companies, which manufactures and sells traditional toys with its toy brands goki, HEIMESS, HOLZTIGER and 'cause.
At the International Toy Fair 2010 in Nuremberg, newly developed children's toys made from anchor stone were presented for the first time. In the classic series, a starter construction kit is exhibited with which the first simple structures can be developed and which makes it easier to get started with the ANKER stone construction kit system. The stones can also be used for later buildings with the "large" stone building sets. In April 2010, the anchor factory moved into the new production building at Breitscheidstrasse 95. The office and exhibition wing covered 400 square meters. A new automatic press supplements the production line and enables the production of a larger number of stones with simpler work processes. In 2012, the Faculty of Education at the University of Hamburg presented the final report of a one-year study on the educational significance of the building game and especially the anchor stone building sets.
In August 2017 the takeover by the AWO (Arbeiterwohlfahrt) Rudolstadt took place. The company will now continue to operate under the name Ankerstein GmbH.
literature
Thomas Trautmann (eds.), Heidi Trautmann and Sonja Lee: Stone on stone. The construction game at the beginning of school. Schneider Verlag, Hohengehren, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8340-0926-5 .
Web links
- The anchor stone construction kit
- Spielhaus Richtersche Villa Rudolstadt e. V.
- derstandard.at; March 6, 2006: 125 years of the Anker stone construction kit
See also
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 51.7 " N , 11 ° 19 ′ 11.3" E