Brevillier Urban & Sachs
| Brevillier Urban & Sachs GmbH & Co KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1900 |
| Seat | Vienna and Hirm , Austria |
| Branch | Office supplies, art supplies |
| Website | www.brevillier-urban.com |
Brevillier Urban & Sachs (before 2008 or 1983 under the name Brevillier & Co. and A. Urban & Sons ) was created in 1900 through the merger of the two metal goods and screw manufacturers Brevillier & Comp. (founded 1823) and A. Urban & Söhne (founded 1848) and was - with 5000 employees at times - one of the most important companies in Austria-Hungary . Brevillier & Comp. alone was one of the largest screw manufacturers in the world in the mid-19th century. In 1983 the screw production was stopped. The pencil production begun in 1863 is continued to this day.
Screw manufacturer
Around 1790, the banker Alexander Brevillier (1759–1808) , who had moved from Frankfurt am Main to Vienna, became a partner of Moritz Reichsgraf von Fries . In 1802, Alexander Brevillier and Moritz Trenk von Tonder founded a modern spinning mill in Schwadorf . His eldest son, Karl Brevillier (1793–1840), had a wood and metal screw factory built in Neunkirchen in Lower Austria in 1823 , which was expanded over the next few decades and made Austrian industrial history. Karl Brevillier and later his younger brother Ludwig Brevillier had the Brevillier and Comp. made into the largest and most modern group in Austria-Hungary , which received international awards at numerous world exhibitions up to 1900 for its innovative crucible casting process and modern looms . Ludwig Brevillier died in 1855 and his nephew Heinrich Trenk von Tonder (1812–1887) took over management of the business. He continued to run the company, got into railway construction and tried to set up pencil production in 1863. His wife Isabella Trenk von Tonder (1819–1872), daughter of the orientalist and writer Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall , was an important patron .
Heinrich Trenk von Tonder's heirs withdrew more and more from the business and so in 1900 the company merged with Urban & Sons to form screws, forged goods and pencil factories, Brevillier & Co. and A. Urban & Sons . In 1848 Anton Urban founded the company A. Urban & Sons in Vienna . In the 1880s, this had grown into a large screw manufacturer, whose most important production facility was right next to one of the main customers - the Floridsdorf locomotive factory . The first Hungarian screw factory in Budapest was bought, then other factories in Neunkirchen and Galicia . Shortly before the First World War , the joint stock company should employ 4,000 people. 5000 people worked for the company during the World War. Two steam boilers from Babcock & Wilcox were installed in Neunkirchen in 1917.
The majority of the employees were still employed in the metal goods and screw production in the factories in Neunkirchen and in factories in Hungary , Yugoslavia and Poland . After the Great Depression , the company only had 870 employees in 1933, but had recovered by 1937. The Urban family was the main owner, but had French and English partners. In 1938, the WSV (Werksportverein) Brevillier & Urban Neunkirchen under Franz Kellinger almost made it into the top football league. During the Second World War , forced laborers for the ( armaments ) industry had to work in the company's factories . After 1945 the factories in Eastern Europe were nationalized.
After the Urban family withdrew, the Bavarian screw company RIBE first became the main owner and opened a production facility in Argentina . In 1983 the company went bankrupt. Screw production in Neunkirchen was taken over by the Neunkirchen screw factory in the same year , but was soon shut down. Most of the factories in Neunkirchen, dating from the 19th century, were demolished after 1998. From one of the largest screw manufacturers in the world in the 1860s, only Brevillier Urban Schreibwaren GmbH remained with its pencil production.
Pencil and watercolor producer
The company's stationery production dates back to 1863, when the then owner, Trenk von Tonder, had pencils made for the first time in his screw factory. In 1925 Zeus Pencil Factory AG was taken over and both productions were concentrated in the Zeus factory in Graz-Gösting . The most famous product at the time was the Cullinan pencil, named after the Cullinan diamond . Overall, pencil production with its 70 employees remained a small side branch.
In Austria, Brevillier and Urban were best known for their Jolly colored pencils, created in 1965 , and this branch of the business, unlike the screw factories, developed very well. After the bankruptcy of the entire company in 1983, it was incorporated and continued into an independent company ( Brevillier-Urban Schreibwarenfabrik GmbH ) based in Graz. In 2007, the merger with the office supplies manufacturer Heinrich Sachs KG resulted in Brevillier Urban & Sachs GmbH & Co KG , under this name the brands JOLLY, SAX, Brevillier's Cretacolor and BIBA are manufactured at the Hirm ( Burgenland ) and Graz locations and sold worldwide .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial heritage of Lower Austria: history, technology, architecture. Vienna 2006, p. 497
- ↑ Pen manufacturer Jolly changed ownership: Imarco Group bought stationery factory in the news of November 5, 2007
- ^ History of Brevillier Urban & Sachs
literature
- Franz Mathis: Big Business in Austria. Austrian large companies in brief descriptions, Munich 1987, chapter on Brevillier-Urban from page 69
- Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial legacy of Lower Austria: history, technology, architecture. Vienna 2006, p. 497
