German Libbey Owens Society for Mechanical Glass Production
The German Libbey-Owens-Gesellschaft für mechanical glass production AG , DELOG for short , was a German company in the field of glass production in Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen , from which the Flachglas AG emerged .
Foundation of DELOG
The company was founded in 1925 as a subsidiary of the Dahlbusch mining company. Its major shareholder was the Belgian Solvay-Libbey-Owens group. The company was named after the patents of the American glass manufacturer Libbey-Owens from Toledo (Ohio) . The mining company Dahlbusch acted as the central gas and electricity supplier for the glassworks.
In 1930 half of the Kuxe of the window glassworks union Kunzendorfer Werke in Kunzendorf (Niederlausitz) was acquired. In 1931 all shares in the Vereinigte Vopelius'sche and Wentzel'sche Glashütten GmbH in St. Ingbert and Sulzbach / Saar were acquired . The plants in Kunzendorf and Sulzbach were incorporated into the newly founded Deutsche Tafelglas AG (Detag) based in Fürth in 1932 . In 1938, however, under pressure from the Reich Ministry of Economics, all Detag shares had to be given over to the Vopelius-Wentzel shareholder group and Deutsche Bank "to protect against foreign infiltration" .
Until 1946 Wilhelm Kesten was chairman of the board, his deputy was the engineer Maurice Hulin in Boitsfort , Belgium. In 1950 Karl Holstein joined the board as chairman.
In 1954 DELOG became the main shareholder of Flabeg . In 1967 DELOG took over Unionglas AG as a subsidiary. The DELOG renamed Unionglas GmbH.
In 1969, Boussois-Souchon-Neuvesel controlled the company.
Flachglas AG is founded
In 1970 DELOG and Deutsche Tafelglas AG were merged to form Flachglas AG, based in Gelsenkirchen. The Gebrüder Müllensiefen plant in Witten , founded in 1826 by Gustav Müllensiefen and Theodor Müllensiefen , taken over in 1930 by Deutsche Tafelglas AG, thus came to flat glass.
At that time, the Pilkington Brothers company already owned the majority of the shares in the mining company Dahlbusch. The company Schulze in Herford, Westdeutsche Spiegelfabriken GmbH in Sende and Flabeg GmbH came to Flachglas through the merger .
In 1980 Pilkington took over Flachglas AG. Walter Griese (* 1914) was the chairman of the board from 1976 to 1981. In 2006, Pilkington was acquired by Nippon Sheet Glass . In 2009, 580 people were employed at the Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen location. Another location was Gladbeck.
literature
- H. Jebsen-Marwedel: Plate glass. German Libbey Owens Society for Mechanical Glass Manufacturing AG. 25 years. Essen 1950.
- Marc Spoerer et al .: 500 years of flat glass 1487–1987. From the forest hut to the group. 2nd edition, 1988.
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the German Libbey Owens Society for Mechanical Glass Production in the 20th Century Press Kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.fhw-online.de/de/FHW-Auktion-84/?AID=37343&AKTIE=Deutsche+Libbey-Owens-Gesellschaft+f%FCr+maschinelle+Glasproduktion+AG+%28Delog%29
- ↑ Evelyn Kroker : Kesten, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , pp. 551 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ http://www.albert-gieseler.de/dampf_de/firmen3/firmadet39102.shtml
- ↑ http://www.gelsenkirchener-geschichten.de/wiki/Pilkington
- ↑ INDUSTRY: duel for glass . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1969 ( online ).
- ↑ Who is who? The German who's who. Founded by Walter Habel. Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin. 24th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, ISBN 3-7950-2005-0 , p. 407.
- ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/gelsenkirchen/pilkington-kuendigt-investition-in-millionenhoehe-an-id4159850.html