Boecker KG

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Textile label "Boecker - Your specialist for clothing and furs"

The Boecker KG , headquartered in Essen operation last about twelve Fashion Shops in higher genre, most of them in North Rhine-Westphalia . Together with C&A , Boecker was the largest fur retailer in the western world around 1983 . With the Goldix factory for clothing Boecker GmbH & Co. KG founded in 1942 , the company also had a large-scale production facility in Germany. In Kleve and Remscheid there will be two last clothing stores operating as Modehaus Boecker in 2020.

Company history

The ensemble in Mettingen , Steinfurt district, known today as Georgshof , is the former Boecker farm in the Ambergen community. From 1987 onwards, the Boecker family made it available to the Tödden tribe of Mettingen of the St. Georg Scouts through a lease . Later ownership of the property changed to the Brenninkmeyer family . This in turn donated it to the Mettingen Scouting Association in 2012. (2011)

In the second half of the 18th century, the families of the " Tödden " traveling merchants, Hettlage, Boecker, Jasper and Schrameyer, got together to coordinate their activities in Pomerania . They founded the Boecker company in Greifenhagen , probably in 1786 . The business premises in Greifenhagen became the starting point for the traveling trade, which operated there until at least the end of the 19th century. Tödden were seasonally wandering merchants and peddlers from Westphalia and neighboring regions who, in particular, sold the linen produced in rural domestic businesses during the winter, first in the Netherlands and then throughout Northern Europe, from England to Riga, in the following summer. With the advent of web manufacturers with automated looms and the simpler shipping options due to the creation of railway connections, the Tödden trade lost its livelihood and the often quite wealthy traders had to reorient themselves professionally.

After training at Gebr. Boecker in Greifenhagen, Hermann Hettlage founded the H. Hettlage company in Münster in 1896, which ran men's and boys' outerwear. In 1904 he sold the business to his cousins ​​August and Heinrich Hettlage, Georg, Julius and Heinrich Boecker. All members of the Boecker family left as shareholders in 1926/33. As a new partner, Carl Hettlage gradually accepted his brothers Werner, Benno and Fritz into H. Hettlage oHG. The group, however, included the Gebr.-Boecker branch in Greifenhagen, which was given up in 1931. The year of the opening of the first Boecker clothing store, based in East Prussia, was given elsewhere as 1930.

The fashion stores, which continued to exist under the Boecker name, achieved sales of around five million marks in 1928. As the co-owner Werner Hüster (* December 11, 1903; † not before 85th birthday) reported in retrospect in 1968, after the Second World War you had to start from scratch: “In Langenberg I got many kilometers of ribbon, from which our tailors made blouses. I can still see them in front of me: brown-white, brown-white. But they were bought. "

In September 1971 the Fritz Seifert company announced the departure of partner Paul Moll and the entry of businessman Franz Boecker, Augsburg, Hüster-Verwaltungsgesellschaft KG., Essen and Verwaltungsgesellschaft Boecker KG., Augsburg. The company name became Boecker KG at the same time. changed.

After the Second World War, at least in the larger Boecker branches, the departments with fur clothing became a focus, and sales in the Federal Republic of Germany experienced an unusual boom. The article fur was particularly maintained in later years by Werner Hüster. When Boecker celebrated his 100th birthday with two houses on Kennedyplatz in May 1968 in Essen, Mayor Hüster congratulated him: "You make Essen the city of furs in the Federal Republic". In October 1984 the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court ruled that the fur houses Gerson and Malkowsky (Dortmund), both of which have since been taken over by Boecker, meet the essential requirements of a craft business and therefore cannot be excluded from a nationwide craft competition for competition law reasons . A revision to the Federal Court of Justice requested by the furriers was unsuccessful.

Boecker co-owner Jost Hüster left the management of the Essen-based clothing chain at the beginning of 1995 and thus withdrew from operational business. Bernward Boecker informed the press that the Boecker groups West and South were merged in August of that year. The management company Boecker GmbH & Co KG, Augsburg, took over the shares of Hüster Verwaltungsgesellschaft in the Boecker-Gruppe West in Essen.

In 2004, seven out of ten branches were closed after bankruptcy.

On the occasion of the first issue of a corporate bond by Steilmann-Boecker Fashion Point GmbH & Co.KG (newly founded as Boecker Retail at the end of 2004 and renamed in 2012) in June 2012, it was determined that Boecker had increased sales in the 2011 financial year by 16.7% to 55 .9 (47.9) million euros. Sales were achieved on an area of ​​33,500 square meters in ten branches and five outlets with, according to the company, more than 650,000 customers. The turnover per square meter in 2011 was 1670 (2010: 2384) euros. In 2011, two new branches in Göttingen and Koblenz were acquired by Adler Mode GmbH as part of an asset deal for a purchase price of EUR 1.2 million. These two branches with a total of around 7,000 square meters were only bought in November 2011. At the time there were a total of 15 Steilmann-Boecker Fashion Point sales outlets, mainly in North Rhine-Westphalia, including 10 Boecker branches. Sales were mainly achieved in the middle and upper price segment; online trading did not take place.

In October 2015, Steilmann SE, which, as the legal successor to Steilmann Boecker Fashion Point GmbH & Co KG, comprised the operational business of Steilmann Holding, announced its IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the Prime Standard . When the Steilmann Group went bankrupt in 2016, twelve Boecker fashion houses with a total of 330 employees belonged to the group. These were branches in Hagen, Göttingen, Dillenburg, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Koblenz, Bad Kreuznach, Dortmund, Mülheim, Ingelheim, Heinsberg, Kleve and Remscheid. The insolvency administrator of the clothing company Steilmann found buyers for seven of the twelve Boecker fashion stores belonging to the group. According to the insolvency administrator, this would save around 230 of the 330 jobs. Houses unfortunately not feasible ”. The other houses in Hagen, Göttingen, Dillenburg, Bonn-Bad Godesberg and Koblenz should be closed at the end of August 2016. The Boecker branches in Bad Kreuznach, Dortmund, Mülheim and Ingelheim were to be taken over by Dortmunder Crossover GmbH, the stores in Heinsberg, Kleve and Remscheid by U & F Moden GmbH in Hamm. (DPA)

Boecker Augsburg

The previous 1400 square meter headquarters of the Boecker Süd group was located in Augsburg . In 1994 the area was expanded by 300 square meters.

Boecker Bad Kreuznach

Boecker Bad Kreuznach , at Mannheimer Straße 125, closed in September 2018. The 4,000 square meters of the representative corner building had been completely occupied by the company by then. The owner of the property, who had difficulties finding a single new tenant, said: "Those days are over, Bad Kreuznach with its 50,000 inhabitants is simply too small for the really big fashion houses."

Boecker Bonn

With entrances from Wenzelgasse and Bonngasse, represented in Bonn since 1975 , Boecker was one of the largest retail stores in the pedestrian zone with 2,400 square meters of sales area. In the heyday of the mid to late 1980s, the branch employed over 150 people, according to the managing director; in 2001 it was 43: “Two days before Christmas our people received the message that the house was going to be closed”.

Boecker Bremen

When the Boecker-Haus in Bremen was the first to close in 2000 after difficulties had already arisen at the parent company, 49 employees were affected by the termination. The shop in the Lloyd Passage had a sales area of ​​2945 square meters. The lease successor was the fashion chain Esprit .

Boecker Dortmund

An idea of ​​the former economic size of Dortmund's Boecker-Haus at Kampstrasse 5 shows the registration of a conversion clearance sale in 1983. For the conversion of the upper floor, a value of over 40 million DM was registered for furs and textiles.

When the 6,700 square meter house was closed in mid-February 2018 after the lease had expired, Crossover GmbH, Massimo Giazzi, was the owner of the Dortmund fashion house Boecker.

Boecker Duisburg

Due to increasing damage to the aging former commercial building ( DeFaKa ), the City Council of Duisburg decided to build a new building for the central library at Steinschen Gasse 26. The old "Boecker-Haus", which had previously stood at this point, was demolished in 2012 to make room for the so-called "Duisburg city window", in which, in addition to the Duisburg city library , the adult education center should also be located. The “Priel” department store used to stand here.

Boecker Düsseldorf

The Boecker-Haus in Düsseldorf was opened as the tenth branch on September 2, 1971, in an excellent location at Jan-Wellem-Platz 1. On two floors with an area of ​​2100 square meters, an assortment with the main items furs, women's and children's clothing was offered. Wolfgang Diederich was in charge of the house with around 100 employees. The main furs range was located on the first floor, together with the hat and cleaning department. A large font on the roof of the corner house advertised “mode + pelz”. When the company went bankrupt in 2004, the branch was closed.

Boecker food

Boecker food . In the middle the former Boecker manor house and the former Boecker ladies house (2015 HEMA and Mayersche Buchhandlung)

Essen was the headquarters and administrative headquarters of Boecker.

The two Essen textile houses Blum and Grundmann (“largest specialty shop in Germany for women's and fur fashion”) became the two stores “Loosen” and “Boecker”.

In 1968 there were two branches in the city, both on Kennedyplatz . The company was proud of the large fur department in the women's house. At the time, co-owner Werner Hüster stated that she was “a real magnet.” In the 1960s, the Boecker Damenhaus advertised “The decisive fur show of our time” on a large banner.

The parent company in Essen was closed in 2001, the two shops in Kleve and Remscheid that were still in existence that year had not belonged to the company for a long time.

Boecker Gelsenkirchen

The Gelsenkirchen branch goes back to a specialist shop for women's clothing founded by Kuno Neumann in 1935 at Bahnhofstrasse 44. In the two rooms, each about 30 square meters in size, mainly women's coats were offered.

In 1951, Franz Boecker joined the company and the previous Kuno Neumann company has operated as Boecker OHG since then. At the same time, the company moved to its own new building at Bahnhofstrasse 80-84 and the range was expanded to include men's and children's clothing, knitwear and swimwear, underwear and corsetry, with a particular focus on furs.

When the shop was still in the former station concourse, there was a large mosaic window designed by Franz Marten above the shop in 1950 , with the Boecker logo below and above on the roof. After the window was placed under a preservation order, citizens and political parties tried in 2007 to forbid the current tenant "Backwerk" from displaying the large company name now under the window there. Since the approval for the installation was given before the protection, there was no legal claim.

The Gelsenkirchen house was closed in February 2014.

Boecker Göttingen

Boecker Göttingen on Groner Straße 30 has been in the former business premises of Textiliten Wehmeyer since 2011 . In September 2016, the store belonging to the Steilmann fashion group was closed after the group went bankrupt.

Boecker Hamburg

In mid-May of the year 1978 in Hamburg , the Arven International , including the shop premises Neuer Wall 41 from the company Boecker taken. The business was closed after bankruptcy in 1999.

Boecker Heinsberg

After the bankruptcy of Steilmann in 2016, the stores in Heinsberg , Kleve and Remscheid operated under the umbrella of U&F Moden GmbH in Hamm. The managing owners of the Hammer clothing store Grüter & Schimpff were Ulrike Bruland and Frank Haske.

The Heinsberger Haus, a fashion store, Ostpromenade 103 in the Heinsberg Galerie shopping center, had around 1000 square meters of retail space when it was taken over.

Boecker Ingelheim

The Boecker fashion center in Ingelheim was located on Nahering 20 along with other textile markets. When it closed in autumn 2018, it belonged to the bankrupt Crossover GmbH and employed around 14 people.

Boecker Cologne

After Boecker had its own branch in Cologne since 1956 on Schildergasse, the company took over the leading fur store Malkowsky on June 1, 1980 , in order to continue to run it under its previous name. According to observers, this house on Hohe Straße was even supposed to be the Boecker Group's second highest turnover at the time, right after the main building in Essen. In 1989 Malkowsky was still included in the fur index, in 1991 the entry is missing.

The Boecker fashion store on Schildergasse 18-22 was one of the largest branches in terms of area with 3400 square meters. When Johannes Boecker announced the closure in 2004 due to losses after the lease had expired, 54 employees were affected. It was not until 1995 that the range was fundamentally changed after a complete renovation. The four-storey clothing store for women's, men's and children's clothing has become a women's store. But just two years later, men's fashion was back on the scene. However, in an address directory from 1991, it was already entered there again as "House of the Lady".

Boecker Kleve

Boecker Kleve , Hoffmannallee 29 at the “shopping center eoc” in Klever Oberstadt, was one of the smaller branches when it opened. Boecker was one of the first companies to move into the newly created shopping center. Women’s and men’s fashion was offered. The temporary closure in 2016 affected 11 employees. The store will exist in 2020, alongside Boecker in Remscheid , as one of the last two Boecker fashion stores. The owner is U & F Moden GmbH, represented by Frank Haske and Ulrike Bruland.

Boecker Krefeld

The Krefeld fashion house Boecker in the 1A location Hochstraße 68-80 was closed in 2002 (previously in the listed building Hochstraße 90-92). Before that, the Dannenbaum fashion house, which ran on the Lower Rhine, was located here.

The Boecker managing director Jürgen Schrömgens was one of the three initiators who, in 1991, brought the "Biggest Street Fashion Show" into being. Each time the event drew many visitors from far and wide to Krefeld, at least for some textile retailers the days were among the best-selling of the year.

Boecker Mönchengladbach

The Mönchengladbach Boecker House closed in 1996.

Boecker Mülheim an der Ruhr

The Boecker fashion store in Mülheim an der Ruhr was located in the RheinRuhrZentrum on the ground floor as well as on the first and second floors. When it opened in 1973, the Rhein-Ruhr-Zentrum was one of the first covered shopping centers in Germany. After the bankruptcy of Steilmann in 2016, the fashion house belonged to Dortmund Crossover GmbH. At the time of the takeover by Steilmann, 70 employees were working there. In August 2019, the real estate newspaper reported: "The two largest vacancies are also located in the RRZ around the bowling center: the former branch of the insolvent Boecker fashion house and the vacant Tengelmann area".

Boecker Munster

The Boecker house in Münster was located in the former premises of the Kluxen department store. When Boecker filed for bankruptcy in 2004, the house on Prinzipalmarkt 1 was also closed. Some of the employees were taken over by the new owner Appelrath Cüpper after he had the business premises rebuilt.

Boecker Remscheid

The Boecker-Haus of U & F Moden GmbH , which will still exist in 2020, next to Boecker in Kleve , is located in Remscheid at Alleestrasse 65-69.

Boecker Vienna

“The largest fashion house in the heart of the pedestrian zone” Boecker in Vienna was located in a fashion shopping center at Kärntner Strasse 11–15. Women’s, men’s and children’s clothing as well as jewelery were carried.

It was located together with the Gerstner confectionery in the so-called rusk house built in 1895 according to plans by Friedrich Schön , named after the women's clothing company rusk . In 2020 there will be a branch of the textile chain H & M there .

Gerson Frankfurt am Main

Egon Gerson (1913–1989) went into business for himself as a fur retailer in Frankfurt am Main in 1952 . In 1979 he sold his business, Pelzhaus Gerson, to the Boecker company. The further management by him, originally agreed for five years, was later extended indefinitely. According to the statement of a trade magazine, the Gerson company was "one of the most respected fur houses in the entire Federal Republic".

Goldix

Founded in 1942, Goldix-Werke, and since 1946 Goldix-Werke for clothing Boecker GmbH & Co. KG , had their German headquarters in Neuburg an der Donau , on Franz-Boecker-Strasse.

In May 2008 Goldix, owner Johannes Boecker, filed for bankruptcy. A former authorized signatory of the company considered the bankruptcy to be avoidable, the senior boss Bernward Boecker and his son Clemens let the company bleed to death by withdrawing large amounts of money. At least on a smaller scale, operations could have continued. Clemens Boecker went to South America around 2004, his brother Johannes remained as sole managing director. In 2008 the last company buildings were demolished. One month after the bankruptcy announcement, the sale of the Goldix brand to Kemper Mode was reported.

Boecker Witten

The Witten fashion house Boecker was not part of the Boecker KG chain. It was founded in 1910 by Gregor and Emilie Boecker. During the Aryanization process , Gregor Boecker acquired the Rosenberg shoe store in 1937, Bahnhofstrasse 17. Gregor was a brother of Franz Boecker, who later opened the many fashion stores. So it was in a report when Boecker boss Jörg Witt announced the closure of the store in February 2014. The company employed ten people at the time.

The managing partner Jörg Witt regretted: “Unfortunately we have to close after 103 years. The decision has purely economic reasons. The trade structure changes, the trend is towards size and the location decides. "

In 1970 the Boecker Foundation was established from the estate of the childless textile merchants Emilie and Gregor Boecker from Witten. When Emilie Boecker died in 1970 at the age of 92, she bequeathed the commission to establish a foundation for the purpose of building a retirement home. The Boecker Foundation now operates two senior centers in Witten in a central location in Wittens with 41 senior citizens' apartments and 184 places for elderly people in need.

Web links

Commons : Modehaus Boecker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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