Aubing Chemical Factory

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Chemical factory Aubing during demolition, 1980. View from the southwest. On the left in the foreground the Aubing-Ost-Strasse, on the right in front a still existing sports facility.
Logo of the chemical factory Aubing

The Aubing chemical factory was a chemical factory in the municipality of Aubing until 1978 , and since 1942 in the Munich- Aubing district. It is probably the oldest industrial settlement in Aubingen. It took place from 1895 east of the Aubinger village center, i.e. north of the Munich - Buchloe - Lindau railway line . Today only the street names Fabrikstrasse and Industriestrasse there are evidence of this.

The agricultural-chemical factory in Munich Aubing owned by the Jewish businessman Julius Einhorn was the oldest forerunner of the chemical factory Aubing Dr. M. Bloch . The chemist Dr. Moritz Bloch (1877–1942), sole owner of the company and also involved in the predecessor companies, was a benefactor of the community. He received honorary citizenship in 1915 . In the years up to 1925 there were numerous structural extensions such as the construction of a boiler house , a canteen , a 55-meter-high chimney and the laying of a siding on the aforementioned railway line. Products included ceresin , special adhesives, self-developed veterinary drugs, salicylic acid , acetylsalicylic acid (1938: 160  tons ), phenacetin (34 tons) and acetanilide (5 tons).

Moritz Bloch was of Jewish descent. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was able to continue his company first. On November 7, 1938, the Polish Jew Herschel Grynszpan carried out an assassination attempt on a German diplomat in Paris, which served as a pretext for the November 1938 pogroms . Moritz Bloch and his son Kurt Bloch (1905–1961) were banned from entering the company premises from November 8th. As a result, he had to sell and did so on January 24, 1939 to Schering AG and Heyl & Co. in Berlin. We have worked with Schering since 1929. The purchase price was transferred to a blocked account , from which various compulsory charges such as the Reich flight tax were paid. Kurt Bloch emigrated to England in the spring of 1939, Moritz Bloch emigrated to New York in 1940, where he died in 1942.

Kurt Bloch returned to Munich after the end of the war in 1947 and was transferred back to the company in 1949. In the 1950s, new acetylsalicylic acid plants were built, and an administration building was added in 1960. This year the company had 121 employees, almost half of them women. After Kurt Bloch's death in 1961, an executor initially let the company continue, but in 1978 it closed down and sold the site. A social plan was drawn up for the remaining 36 employees . The production of the veterinary medicinal products was taken over by Rütgerswerke AG Frankfurt , which let the administration of the new company Chemische Fabrik Aubing GmbH work for some time in its branch Chemische Fabrik Weyl in Pasing.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Liedl: "God bless Christian work" 100 years of the Catholic workers' association in Aubing . In: Parish letter of the parish of St. Quirin . July 2009, p. 13-17 ( PDF ).
  2. ^ A b c Sabine Bloch and Peter Knoch: Chemische Fabrik Aubing . In: Bernhard Schossig (Ed.): Moved into the light: Jewish ways of life in the west of Munich: a search for traces . Utz, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8316-0787-7 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '26.7 "  N , 11 ° 25' 7.9"  E