Carl Wilh. round

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Letterhead of Caffee roasting plant for large company, Rohcaffee , colonial produce . Agricultural seeds from the Carl Wilh company. Round at Alexanderstraße 3 ;
Form around 1900 by Rob. Leunis & Chapman

Carl Wilh. Runde in Hanover was a plant seed trade founded at the beginning of the 19th century , from which the later Garvens works developed in the course of industrialization .

history

After the merchant Carl Wilhelm Runde had taken over a material, drugstore and dye goods store from his father in 1809, he later took on the merchant Heinrich Theodor Garvens (* May 24, 1805 in Hanover; † February 15, 1890 there) as a co-owner, who became sole owner of the company after Rundes death in 1859.

In 1849 the person Karl Wilh. Round in what was then Braunschweigerstr. 11 his place of residence, while the place of business was at Marktstrasse 65 .

In the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover from 1864, the company advertised with an advertisement illustrated by the company Nosworthy & Co. with the representation of various large machines and steam engines by Richard Garrett & Sons and the note “Lager Agricultural & Forestry Machinery & Equipment [... on] Theaterplatz next to Georgs-Halle and Luisen-Strasse next to Hôtel de l'Europe. "

In the following year, 1865, Garvens founded his own machine and pump factory from trading in agricultural machinery , which later became part of the Garvens factory .

View into Alexanderstraße (right), around 1900 the headquarters of Carl Wilh. round

In the 19th century the company Carl Wilh. Round secured one of the first telephone connections in Hanover with the telephone number 82 . At the turn of the century, Runde offered its agricultural seeds as well as colonial goods and green coffee at Alexanderstraße 3 in Hanover and ran a coffee roasting plant for large companies.

In the meantime, the seed business was expanded into a seed wholesaler by 1913, with its own cultivation plants “[...] on Gut Grasdorf u. Rittergut Hülsede ". In addition to clover , grass and other seeds for agriculture, Carl Wilh. Round as well as specialty seeds for fodder beets , turnips and carrots "[...] own in elite skills expertly guided breeds."

The company was temporarily owned by Franz Garvens (born February 13, 1846 in Hanover; † August 18, 1921 there), a son of the entrepreneur, also known as Hieronymus Theodor Garvens , and nephew of Wilhelm Garvens, who was later ennobled .

In the middle of the Second World War , the Carl Wilh. Runde was last listed in the address book of the city of Hanover in 1943, the year of the most devastating air raids on Hanover . However , in 1946 the company merged with the seed breeder Ernst & von Spreckelsen , based in Hamburg, to form Hansa Saat GmbH . The sole owner of the holding became Ernst . According to Stephan Kaiser , the director of the open-air museum on the Kiekeberg , a new main catalog for seeds with the additional designation “ Hamburger Markt ” or “Hamburger Marktorte ” was published by spring 1950 at the latest .

Archival material

Archival material from and about the Carl Wilh company. Round can be found for example

  • as a corporate font in the Deutsches Museum in Munich
  • as a rolled poster from the 1930s with the form “Seeds really reliable can be bought cheaply in the local defeat of Carl Wilh. Runde ”owned by the Dahlem Estate Foundation - Estate and Museum and as a photograph of it with the comment CC BY-NC-SA on the museum-digital .de page

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Wilh. Round  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Waldemar R. Röhrbein: round. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , S 531; online through google books
  2. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Garvens, (1) Heinrich Theodor. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 125
  3. ↑ Entries from the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover 1849
  4. ↑ Compare the information on the letterhead dated November 28, 1902
  5. ↑ Compare the information in the family database of the Verein für Computergenealogie eV
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 694f.
  7. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
  8. ↑ Sebastian Wenzel (responsible): Hamburger Markt / Vegetables, Hamburger Markt / The Vegetables "Hamburger Markt" on the slowfood-hamburg.de website , the website of the local group of Slow Food Deutschland eV , last accessed on August 26, 2016
  9. ↑ Compare its overview under the letter C ( Memento of July 2, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), last accessed on February 16, 2020
  10. ↑ Domain Dahlem Foundation - Estate and Museum Inventory [DD99 / 491DA / Poster " Samples ..." (Foundation Domain Dahlem - Estate and Museum CC BY-NC-SA) / Poster "Seed ..." ]