Appel delicatessen

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Appel Feinkost GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1879
Seat Cuxhaven , Germany
management
  • Karl Horst Gehlen
  • Detlef Kowalski
  • Andreas Witte.
Branch food industry
Website www.appel-feinkost.de

The Appel Feinkost GmbH & Co. KG , based in Cuxhaven is a Feinkostfabrik , focusing on fish life preserves specializes.

Today the company belongs to the Lower Saxony Heristo Aktiengesellschaft .

history

The pastor's son Heinrich Wilhelm Appel (1850–1923) did an apprenticeship as a merchant and founded a sugar and colonial goods wholesaler in Hanover in the courtyard of the Hotel Kasten in 1879 . It was also called the sugar apple . In 1886 he moved to Engelbosteler Damm 72. From 1895 the company developed into a delicatessen wholesaler. After being initially distributed foreign products, he soon its own panel mustard and from 1898 marinades for Appels Bismarck herring and roll forth.

In 1905 he took his son Heinz Appel , who had been an apprentice in a Hamburg ore import company, into his company. From the same year he also produced a mayonnaise to German taste, with which the name “Appel” became world-famous. In 1909, Änne Koken designed the company's trademark with the lobster. In the same year, Heinz Appel received power of attorney . In 1911 he expanded production with a branch in Altona for processing fish.

In 1912, Heinz Appel replaced the foreign word “delicacies” with the German word “delicatessen”. It is part of the company name - previously: Feinkost-Fabrik HW Appel, today: Appel Feinkost.

Production was expanded again in 1916 with the establishment of a branch in Lauterbach on Rügen. In the same year Heinrich and Heinz Appel set up a company social welfare scheme .

The former Appel delicatessen factory at Engelbosteler Damm 72 in Hanover
Appel Feinkost in Cuxhaven

Heinz became a partner in 1920. After the death of his father in 1923, he took over the company, converted it into a stock corporation and expanded it considerably: in 1924 and 1934/35 with expansions in Hannover Engelbosteler Damm and Schöneworth , in 1925 and 1928 in Altona . In 1931 he took over the cancer department of Triumph AG in Prostken / East Prussia. In 1939, Appel produced more than 1,000 delicatessen items with over 1,400 employees and was the largest company of its kind in Germany.

In the Second World War were his three sons. When the war ended, the factories in East Prussia and on Rügen were lost, and those in Hanover and Altona were destroyed. But Heinz Appel rebuilt the company. After suffering a stroke in 1958, he handed over the chairmanship of the board to his son-in-law Werner Blunck . After Heinz Appel's death, the state capital of Hanover in 1962 named him in honor of the military road in Appelstraße order.

In 1973 the Appel family sold their majority of the shares to Südzucker , which, however, did not get the business under control during the recession following the oil crisis. In 1975 it was sold to the Düsseldorfer Senf- und Konserven-Industrie Frenzel KG , which shut down the Hanover plant in the same year and sold the building to the Diocese of Hildesheim in 1976. The production of Appel & Frenzel Feinkost was concentrated in their plants in Düsseldorf and Jülich . In 1977 it was converted into a GmbH. As Appel Feinkost GmbH & Co. KG , based in Cuxhaven , the company has been part of Heristo AG since 1999 . Appel's business is run by the sister company Norda Fisch Feinkost GmbH, which is based at the same address.

Media coverage (selection)

literature

  • “Triumph” cancer cookbook. Published by the canned cancer factory "Triumph". Contains 41 crab dishes such as crab tartlets, cardinal-style crustacean foam or crab-nose fillings. Around 1920.
  • Gerd Schulte, Heinz Appel: Appel: 1879–1954; to the friends of our house for the 75th anniversary. 1954.
  • NN : New production building HW Appel, Feinkost AG. In: Building and Living. Jg. 17, 1962, issue 5, p. 220f., With 3 illustrations and a plan
  • Edgar Kalthoff (ed.): Lower Saxony life pictures . Volume 6 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 22). ed. on behalf of the Historical Commission. Lax, Hildesheim 1969, pp. 72-91.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): Preserve your home, shape your home. Contributions to the 100th anniversary of the Heimatbund Lower Saxony. 1901-2001. ed. on behalf of the Heimatbund Niedersachsen eV Hannover. Heimatbund Niedersachsen, Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-9800677-4-2 , p. 151f.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Appel, Heinz. and Appel, HWA, Feinkost AG. 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. 31.
  • Kristina Huttenlocher: Appel Feinkost. A family company through the ages. zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 2013, ISBN 978-3-86674-185-0 . Information from the publisher's report
  • Kristina Huttenlocher: Lobster and Mayonnaise. On the history of the Hanoverian family company Feinkost-Appel. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 68 (2014), pp. 109–129

Web links

Commons : Appel Feinkost  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Böttcher: Hannoversches biographical lexicon. P. 30.
  2. ↑ cf. Huttenlocher, Kristina: Appel Feinkost - A family business through the ages, zu Klampen Verlag, 2013.
  3. ↑ appel-feinkost.de ( Memento from December 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ cw-hannover.de accessed on February 8, 2012.
  5. ^ History of Feinkost-Appel AG
  6. ↑ gso.gbv.de
  7. ↑ gso.gbv.de


Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '22 "  N , 8 ° 43' 37.3"  E