Dieckmann & Hansen
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1869 |
| Seat | Hamburg |
| management | Christian Zuther-Grauerholz, Werner Sager |
| Branch | Food |
| Website | www.Dieckmann-Hansen.com |
Dieckmann & Hansen is a caviar - import business in Hamburg .
history
The company “Fischsalzerei en Gros” Dieckmann & Hansen ”was founded on September 10, 1869 by Küpermeister Johannes Dieckmann together with his son-in-law Johannes CF Hansen. In 1887 the first fish auction took place in the St. Pauli fish hall . In 1891 a branch was opened at the Altona fish market. The company quickly became successful and was able to expand abroad. In 1895 an own fishing and processing plant for sturgeon , salmon and roe was established in Verche Tambovsk on the Amur River in Eastern Siberia . In 1902, the foundation followed an own fishing station in Astrakhan on the Volga River estuary on the caviar industry major Caspian Sea . From 1902 to 1914 Paul Reinbrecht headed the station in Astrakhan, where he documented the fishing methods and described the sturgeon. Dieckmann & Hansen also expanded in Western Europe: in 1902 branches were opened in Berlin , Vienna , London and Stockholm by the grandchildren and sons of the founders Ferdinand, Johannes and Peter Hansen. In 1911 Ferdinand Hansen founded the Romanoff Caviar Company in New York City . The shareholders Johann Steffen Peter Hansen and Peter Hansen were appointed royal court suppliers due to the high quality of the products .
The outbreak of the First World War severely interrupted trade relations. The fishing station in Astrakhan had to be closed. Business relationships could only be resumed after the end of the war. During the Second World War in 1943, the factories in Spaldingstrasse and Holländischer Brook were destroyed by bombs and the caviar stocks destroyed.
In the post-war years, business was resumed in 1954 under the management of Horst Gödecke. In 1967 50 percent of the shares were sold to the Hamburg company "Caviar Im- und Export GmbH & Co. KG" in order to better organize the business. In 1969 Horst Gödecke published the book "The Royal Caviar".
Over the next few decades, the company experienced great growth, but also changes. In 1969 the "Romanoff Caviar Company" and Dieckmann & Hansen were sold by the Hansen family to the US food company Riviana Food Inc. Dieckmann & Hansen took over the remaining shares in "Caviar Im- und Export GmbH & Co. KG". In 1976 Riviana's shares were sold to Colgate-Palmolive . In 1981 Horst Gödecke handed over the management to long-term employee Susanne Taylor. In 1984 Riviana was taken over by the " Nordsee Deutsche Hochseefischerei GmbH". In the same year "Caviar Im- und Export GmbH" was renamed "Aquila", in 1991 it was liquidated by the "Nordsee" . On January 1, 1993 Dieckmann & Hansen GmbH was taken over by Susanne Taylor and the Mabre group. A year later the company celebrated its 125th anniversary.
With the end of the Cold War and the loss of the state monopoly in Russia , black trafficking and overexploitation of sturgeon stocks began. Due to the rapidly shrinking populations, the sturgeon was placed under the protection of the Washington Convention on the Protection of Species in 1998 . 1999, underlined European Commission , the Kazakh caviar production of the list of approved establishments. This step means the temporary end for the company: in 2000 all employees had to be laid off, and operations ceased in March of that year. An earlier complaint to the European Court of Justice against the decision of the European Commission was ultimately dismissed.
In 2003, the former employees Werner Sager and Christian Zuther-Grauerholz were able to exercise the purchase option for Dieckmann & Hansen and start operations again.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f The story of Dieckmann & Hansen. (No longer available online.) Dieckmann & Hansen, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 17, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Handbook of the Supreme Court and the Court of His K. and K. Apostolic Majesty . Kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei , Vienna 1917, p. 519 .
- ^ Verlag Siepmann
