German dog biscuit factory

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Cover of a folded advertising card for the German dog biscuit factory owned by the entrepreneur Johannes Kühl ; with images of the medals from Vienna and Teplitz from 1884,
lithograph by the playing card manufacturer Eduard Stille, around 1887

The German dog biscuit factory in Hanover was a factory founded in the 19th century for the production of animal feed , especially dog biscuits .

history

After the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and 1871 and the proclamation of the German Empire , the merchant Johannes Kühl, who came from the island of Fehmarn , first built a steam bakery in Hanover during the so-called " Gründerzeit " in the Glockseestrasse , which was the main street of the former suburb Glocksee few years earlier, together with the Ohe in the Calenberger Neustadt had been incorporated. These steam-powered bakery converted to heat in the under the address Glockseestraße 7 A P , according to the address books of Hanover for the first time demonstrated for the 1880 German dog biscuit factory .

The German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck with his " Reichdogs " Tyras II and Rebecca in Friedrichsruh , July 6th, 1891

The highlighting of the word " German " in the company name was both an expression of German nationalism after the "victory" over France and not only after the end of the small states by the German unification incipient patriotism , although the agreement only under the hegemony of the Kingdom of Prussia as a small German Solution came about. On the other hand, keeping dogs was an expression of bourgeois self-confidence, for which the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and his Great Dane provided the great model.

The "German" dog biscuit factory , already euphemistically depicted on an annual calendar from 1884 a few years after it was founded , seemed to speak for an entire nation with its name , but was in competition with other companies in Germany and in particular with the English competitor Spratt . The company's boss Johannes Kühl presented his German dog biscuits at international trade fairs at home and abroad and was awarded first prizes in Munich , Vienna and Zurich .

The German dog biscuit factory as "[...] the oldest and largest factory in Germany " advertised with well-known supporters;
like here around 1887 with von Kotze , Karl Dammann and Carl Arnold

The animal feed company worked closely with the Association for the Refinement of Dog Breeds and was able to attract numerous well-known personalities to promote the products, such as Lieutenant General Hermann von Kotze , the veterinarian Karl Dammann , the banker Emil Meyer and others.

By 1887 the company was already operating dispatch warehouses in Berlin , Cologne , Leipzig and Hamburg as well as in Frankfurt am Main and Munich. The products “made from meat waste, cereal flour and the like” were considered “more trustworthy” than the products of the competition. They were tested by the chemist Carl Arnold and were under constant control by the Royal University of Veterinary Medicine, Hanover .

Also in 1887 the Deutsche Hundekuchenfabrik operated as "[...] the oldest and largest [such] factory in Germany" at Füsilierstrasse 30 a. , b. and c. ; a street that was later renamed Bronsartstraße in the Hanover district of List near Welfenplatz .

According to a price list from probably 1888, the company offered the "German Association Dog Biscuit" for dogs of all breeds as well as the - particularly expensive - " Cod liver oil cake ", as well as for other domestic animals as well as farm animals such as refrigerated poultry feed or the so-called " Prairie " meat "for pheasants and other" [...] insect- eating animals "such as fish. In addition to feed for pigeon breeding , for example , the factory also offered Kühl's pig fattening for agriculture and as a supplement for self-sufficiency .

The German dog biscuit factory , the only such factory in Hanover in the 19th century, “[...] changed owners in 1889/90, while retaining its name , went to Erwin Stahlecker in Berlin and later to Robert Baelz in London . “According to the Hanover address books, however, it continued to operate in Hanover at least until 1900.

Also around 1890, the company founder Johannes Kühl had also sold his patents to the English competitor Spratt's for 100,000 gold marks , and began his next ventures in Kirchrode, soon to be named after him, as a builder and architecture “ copyist ”. The estate of the entrepreneur is in the possession of the descendants of Kühl.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, Kühl emphasized in a follow-up comment ("NB.") Shortly before: "A patent on dog biscuits is not permitted in Germany [...]" (compare this advertising leaflet from around 1887). Maybe it was patents on the manufacturing process.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Hans Werner Dannowski : "We're going into the village." Kirchrode . In: Hanover - far from near. Out and about in districts . Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-653-4 , p. 151–176, especially from p. 172 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Glockseestraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 93
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Calenberger Neustadt. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 105f.
  4. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann: Do you know "Kühlshausen"? , in this: A train through the Leinetal . Pomp & Sobkowiak, Essen 1987, ISBN 3-922693-20-2 , pp. 90f.
  5. ^ A b c Ludwig Hoerner : agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900. Edited by Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , p. 206; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Compare, for example, Kühl's follow-up remark ("NB.") On this advertising leaflet from around 1887
  7. ↑ a b c Compare the address information on this advertising leaflet from around 1887
  8. ↑ Emil Pott : The agricultural feed. Handbook for animal breeders and pet owners. Parey, Berlin 1889, p. 654.
  9. ↑ Feathered World , Volume 102, 1978, p. 243.
  10. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Bronsartstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover ..., p. 48
  11. ^ Cornelia Kuhnert (text), Günter Krüger (photos): The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße. The copyist von Kühlshausen , in this: 111 places in Hanover that one must have seen , [Cologne]: emons, 2013, ISBN 978-3-95451-086-3 , p. 118

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Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 18.7 ″  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 15 ″  E