Berliner-Kindl-Schultheiss-Brewery
| Berliner-Kindl-Schultheiss-Brewery | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1842 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| management | Wolfhard Buß, Jens Caßens |
| Number of employees | 420 |
| Branch | Beverage manufacture and distribution |
| Website | www.schultheiss.de |
The Berliner-Kindl-Schultheiss-Brauerei GmbH produces beers of the brands Berliner Pilsner , Berliner Kindl , Engelhardt , Schultheiss and Berliner Bürgerbräu in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen . It belonged to the German reunification for VEB Kombinat drinks Berlin , which was dissolved 1990th After that, came Brewery to companies Brau & Brunnen and is since 2004 part of the Radeberger Group in the Oetker Group . The annual production is 1.5 million hectoliters .
history
The pharmacist August Heinrich Prell († 1863) founded a brewery in the Neue Jakobstrasse in Old Berlin in 1842 , which was taken over by Jobst Schultheiss (1802–1865) after his death and in 1864 by the textile retailer Adolf Roesicke (1817 –1886) was acquired. His son Richard Roesicke (1845–1903) took over the management of the brewery . Following the trend of the early days , it was expanded into a large industrial brewery. In order to obtain additional capital for expansion, the brewery was converted into a public company in 1871 .
The brewery merged in 1891 with one of its most important competitors, the Kreuzberg Tivoli brewery . The new company changed its name still under Schultheiss , the Tivoli production in Kreuzberg were as Division II referred. In 1877, the Roesicke family also acquired the Waldschlösschen brewery in Dessau , independently of the expansion of the Schultheiss brewery , which was also incorporated into the Schultheiss Group in 1896 as Department III .
Further affiliations were the acquisition of the Borussia brewery in Berlin-Niederschöneweide as department IV in 1898 , the acquisition of the Pfeifferhof brewery in Breslau as department V in 1910 and the merger with the Berlin Union brewery in Hasenheide as department VI in 1914 , from their property two more breweries in Eberswalde and Schneidemühl came to Schultheiss.
The company management in Berlin-Schöneberg had a new malt factory built on Bessemerstrasse from 1914 to 1917 . Although the First World War brought economic problems with it, the new malt factory was completed and other acquisitions were made, such as the Spandau Bergbrauerei and the Pfefferberg Brewery .
In 1920, Schultheiss finally merged with another large Berlin brewery, the Aktien-Brauerei-Gesellschaft Friedrichshöhe, formerly Patzenhofer , to form the Schultheiss-Patzenhofer Brauerei AG . The fact that Schultheiss was the stronger partner in this merger became apparent when the name Patzenhofer was dropped in 1937 . The company was again Schultheiss Brauerei AG . In the same year, this was named a National Socialist model company by the Nazi regime with all its production facilities .
After 1946 only seven breweries in Berlin ( east and west ) and one in Dessau belonged to the Schultheiss group. Due to the SMAD order no. 124, the operations within the Soviet sphere of influence were withdrawn from the control of Schultheiss AG. However, they continued to produce beer under the well-known brand name.
The former Department I on Schönhauser Allee has not produced any beers since the late 1980s, and the building complex has been a listed building since the 1970s . In East Berlin , a brewery located in Schöneweide belonged to Schultheiss as part of its operation; after 1959 it was spun off as the Bärenquell brewery .
The Division II of the Schultheiss brewery was located from 1891 to 1994 at the Tivoli site in Methfesselstrasse in Kreuzberg . The listed former brewery buildings are now part of the Viktoria-Quartier on the southern slope of the Kreuzberg . On July 1, 1972, Schultheiss, which in the old Federal Republic of Germany had merged to form the DAB group, also took over the Schlegel brewery in Bochum .
After 1990 the former department III of the Kindl brewery Berlin-Weißensee (district Alt-Hohenschönhausen ) was added. The production facility with several buildings, which opened in the 19th century on what was then Lichtenberger Strasse (since 1987 Indira-Gandhi-Strasse ) as the Gabriel & Richter Brewery (later called Kindl Brewery ), has been the main location of the brewery ever since. The malting plant with the 33 meter high silo tower was built in 1929 by the architect Hans Claus and Richard Schepke as clinker - Verblendbau added. In the GDR era, this brewery belonged to the VEB Getränkekombinat Berlin , together with the Aktien-Brauerei-Gesellschaft Friedrichshöhe and the Berliner Bürgerbräu . The parts of the building are listed.
The reunification of Berlin finally led to the fact that many of the former Schultheiss business units were reunited; the resulting company gave itself the name Berliner-Kindl-Schultheiss-Brauerei GmbH .
See also
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Müller: 175 Years of Schultheiss - A look back at the history of Berlin's most important traditional brewery. In: Society for the History of Brewing e. V. [GGB] (Ed.): GGB-Jahrbuch 2017, p. 133.
- Erich Borkenhagen: 125 years of the Schultheiss brewery. The history of the Schultheiss beer in Berlin from 1842–1967 , Berlin 1967.
- Hasso Spode : The Kreuzberg and the beer. History and prehistory of the Schultheiss brewery . In: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Brewing (GGB) , 1993, pp. 118–135.
Web links
- Schultheiss brewery
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Berliner Kindl Schultheiss brewery in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- A presentation on the history of the brewery (s)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Disenchantment in German breweries. In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 3, 2018.
- ↑ Malzfabrik Schultheiss
- ↑ The Schultheiss Group . In: Neues Deutschland , January 10, 1947.
- ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 150.
- ^ Former Schultheiss Brewery (Section II) on Kreuzberg
- ↑ 130 years of Schlegel brewery in Bochum . Information on the website of the city of Bochum, accessed on September 17, 2016.
- ↑ Traders and traders . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1905, Part 5, Weißensee, p. 385.
- ↑ Malthouse and administration building of the former Kindl brewery, Indira-Gandhi-Straße 66–69 in the Berlin State Monument List
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 31.7 " N , 13 ° 28 ′ 15.3" E