Dresden milk supply institute

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Building of the old town steam dairy , Würzburger Strasse 9 in Dresden-Plauen

The Dresdner Milchversorgungs-Anstalt eGmbH , from 1923 DREMA AG , was a dairy company based in Dresden . After 1945, the production facilities were transferred to VEB Dresdner Milchwerke , and operations were discontinued in 1990.

history

Partial bond for 1000 marks of the Dresden milk supply company from September 1907

The company was founded in 1905 in the legal form of a registered cooperative with limited liability (eGmbH) by 355 milk producers from the Dresden area. In 1907 the old town steam dairy with production and administration rooms was built in the suburb of Plauen on the property at Würzburger Straße 9 . The building, which is architecturally based on Art Nouveau , was planned by the Dresden architect and contractor Carl Schümichen - possibly in cooperation with the Dresden branch office of the Leipzig civil engineer Rudolph Michel - and was one of the most modern large dairies of its time. The financing was provided by the members of the cooperative and through a bond issued in 1907/1908 in the amount of 400,000 marks .

With its modern equipment and an annual output of around 25 million liters of milk, the Dresdner Milchversorgungs-Anstalt was around 1911 the largest dairy cooperative in Germany. Specialists from home and abroad regularly visited the company, which was included in 1912 by Henry William Wolff as an example for German dairies in his standard work Co-operation in agriculture . The cooperative was represented with its own pavilion at the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden in 1911 ; The architect Georg Heinsius von Mayenburg took on the design of this temporary building .

The raw milk for production was mainly obtained from farmers in the Dresden area and processed in the Plauen company. In addition to whole milk and buttermilk, the production program also included cheese , butter and yoghurt, as well as a kefir patented in Switzerland by the Russian emigrant Pavel Axelrod . The goods were sold in numerous branches throughout the city.

In July 1923, the cooperative transferred its shares to a newly founded stock corporation called DREMA AG for the extraction, manufacture and sale of foodstuffs (entry in the commercial register on August 24, 1923). However, the cooperative continued to exist and was only deleted from the cooperative register in 1938. From 1936 the company operated as Drema Großmolkerei AG . In 1945 the buildings in Dresden-Plauen were badly damaged in the air raid, but production could soon be resumed after the major damage was repaired.

In the post-war period, the stock corporation was dissolved and the company was transferred to public ownership. Until 1990 the large dairy belonged to the VEB Dresdner Milchwerke . In the course of reprivatisation , this company was taken over by Südmilch AG in 1990 and renamed Sachsenmilch AG . The management functions were largely filled with people from the Südmilch executive board. For CEO Sachsenmilch was Wolfgang Weber , the chairman was Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler selected. However, already in 1991 financial problems arose in the implementation of the project. Then Sachsenmilch AG became a subsidiary of the Theo Müller group of companies , which produces under the brand names Sachsenmilch and Käsemeister . The company was the first in East Germany to be listed on the German stock exchange with ISIN DE000A0DRXC4 . With the completion of the new large dairy in Leppersdorf , production in Dresden-Plauen was discontinued. Since 1994 the listed ID no. 09216041 standing building from the delicatessen manufacturer Dr. Doerr used.

literature

  • Helmut Hamann: The agricultural conditions in the Dresden district administration from 1880 to the present. Verlag der Universitat Leipzig, Leipzig 1912, p. 162.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfons Jung: Current status of milk supply in the Free State of Saxony. Verlag Schaper, 1926, p. 27.
  2. ^ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs , 1908 edition, 3rd part, p. 739. (First mention of the property in the 1907 edition of the address book, still referred to as "construction site")
  3. ↑ Christian Karl Schümichen in the Freemason Wiki , last accessed on January 31, 2020
  4. ^ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs , 1907 edition, 1st part, p. 571.
  5. ^ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs , 1908 edition, 1st part, p. 583.
  6. ^ Henry W. Wolff: Co-operation in agriculture. PS King & Son, London 1912. (English)
  7. ↑ Handbook of German Stock Companies , 48th edition 1943, Volume 5, p. 5268.
  8. ^ DGAP-DD: Sachsenmilch AG