Dresden margarine factory
The Dresdner Margarinewerk is a food industrial company in the Dresden district of Leuben .
history
Emerging from two companies, the "Vereinigte Fettstoffläger Petzoldt & Schliephacke und Georg Münch GmbH" was entered in the company register in 1921, which in the same year was transformed into "Vereinigte Fettstoff-Import-Fabrikations- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH" and then into "Vereinigte Fettstoff-Aktiengesellschaft (AG ) "Was renamed. The company also imported American slaughter products and, from 1922, a synthetic edible fat and margarine factory , also first near the slaughterhouse (Schlachthofring 3), and in the same year at the Leuben factory at what was then Pirnaische Strasse 64, now Pirnaer Landstrasse 194. Managing director of this company were Friedrich Carl Gatzweiler and Franz Leopold Franke. The former factory owner's villa of the margarine works still exists today at house number 194, the factory itself was initially only in a back building.
After 1945 the company was nationalized as a state-owned company. From 1965 , Gerda Darnstädt , the politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and chairwoman of the Dresden District Board of the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany (DFD) , took over the management of the VEB Margarinewerk Dresden. In the 1980s, the company belonged to the “State-owned Combine Oil and Margarine Magdeburg”.
The factory existed until 1990 as a “publicly owned company” and after reunification initially fell to the Treuhandanstalt . At that time the plant employed around 60 people. The Treuhandanstalt in turn sold the margarine factory in 1991 to the Belgian food company Vandemoortele . With a comprehensive modernization program and an investment volume of over 23 million euros, the plant was brought up to date with the latest technology.
In its peak phase after 1990, the company had 125 employees in 1997, who produced more than 70,000 tons of margarine and fats. After the reduction in export business that began in 1997 and the reorganization that was necessary with it, u. a. In cooperation with the TU Dresden , the margarine factory was one of the most modern margarine production facilities in Europe. In 2004, vocational training to become specialists in food technology began in the Dresden plant.
A plant expansion was completed in 2018. Around 90 people are currently employed at the Dresden plant. In addition to own brands of various grocery chains, the margarine cubes “Marina”, “Sana” and “Sonja”, which have been popular since GDR times, are still produced.
literature
- Pro Dresden eV (Ed.): 10 years of Pro Dresden - our name says it all. Brand team, Dresden 2005, p. 63. Without ISBN.
Web links
- Dresdner Margarinewerk GmbH - entry in the federal company register
- Dresdner Margarinewerk on dresdner-stadtteile.de
- Margarine - the innovative health on prodresden.de
- Gernot Mühge: Flexibility as a system. Functional, pay and working time flexibility in Vandemoortele Deutschland GmbH . In: Thomas Kieselbach, Matthias Knuth, Debora Jeske, Gernot Mühge: Innovative restructuring of companies: case studies and analyzes. Rainer-Hampp-Verlag, Munich and Mering 2009, ISBN 978-3-86618-365-0 , pp. 50-72. ( Limited preview on Google Books )
Individual evidence
- ^ Dresden address book 1921, commercial register , SLUB, p. 2193
- ↑ a b Dresden address book 1922/23, commercial register , SLUB, p. 2388
- ↑ Information from dresdner-stadtteile.de , accessed on August 26, 2018.
- ^ Marleen Hollenbach: fat in business . Sächsische Zeitung of December 30, 2016, online , accessed on August 26, 2018.