Dürbig & Co.

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Dürbig & Co.
legal form Company
founding 1816
resolution 1900
Seat Leipzig, Germany
Branch trade

The founding of the company Dürbig & Co. goes back to Heinrich Johann Merck . He came to Hamburg in 1794 and founded the company HJ Merck, which dealt with the sale of industrially manufactured English darning yarn, called twist . Cotton was later used in place of the twist.

history

The Schillerstr. 6 in Leipzig, that was the headquarters of Dürbig & Comp for decades.

Johann Christian Dürbig (1790–1860) became a partner in the parent company HJ Merck & Co. in Hamburg in 1815 . JC Dürbig was the nephew of HJ Merck, they both came from Schweinfurt . With his partner Dürbig, Merck founded a new branch called Englische Garnhandlung in Leipzig at Katharinenstrasse 16 in 1816, initially with the company name Merck, Dürbig & Co. , in 1852 the addition of Merck was dropped. The merchant Friedrich Otto Keilberg became a partner. On July 1, 1817, another subsidiary was established in Manchester, which was responsible for purchasing yarn on the English market. Johann Christian Dürbig was the 109th member of the Leipzig Merchants' Association "The Trusted" .

The son of Johann Christian Dürbig, Anton Ferdinand (1828–1900) a commercial judge and merchant . a. active on the board of directors of Leipziger Vereinsbank, became a partner in the company on November 2, 1857. Like his father, he was also a member of the Trusted Society, which was founded for charitable purposes, and in 1876 he was accepted as the 146th member. On May 4, 1859, Anton Ferdinand took over the Dürbig & Co. company. After 50 years, the company's headquarters moved from Katharinenstrasse 16 to the newly built Oldenbourg house at Schillerstrasse 6. The company's authorized representative was Richard Cramer . AF Dürbig's son, Christian Heinrich Alfred, became a partner in the company in 1876. Anton Ferdinand died on March 19, 1900 at the age of 72, he managed the company for 40 years until his death. On December 31, 1900, the company in Leipzig was dissolved and the company moved to England.

literature

  • Contributions to the social history of Leipzig merchants in the 19th century , inaugural dissertation by Dr. Werner Wendt.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of the Association for Hamburg History, Volume 40, Johann August Meissner, 1949, p. 193.
  2. ^ Historical address books Leipzig
  3. ↑ Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke - 2010. Hamburgische Biografie 5: Personenlexikon - p. 255
  4. ^ Percy Ernst Schramm : Hamburg, Germany and the world, p. 131
  5. ^ The familiar society in Leipzig. P. 40.
  6. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Munich: 1871, No. 315, p. 5564
  7. ↑ Leipziger Zeitung No. 230 of September 27, 1857, under notice III. Changes of ownership, p. 17.
  8. ↑ Dissertation by Hans Uhlig (signature UAG Phil.-Diss.II-1301 submitted to the Philosophical Faculty of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald)

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