Duco AG

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Duco Public Company
legal form Corporation
founding before 1929
resolution 1949
Reason for dissolution Takeover by Hermann Wiederhold Lackfabriken
Seat Berlin , Germany
Branch Paint production

The Duco AG was the production of paints seised companies in Berlin-Spindlersfeld , known especially for its "Ducolux" coatings.

history

Duco AG emerged from Gebrüder Mosebach AG in Riesa . Most of the shares in Gebrüder Mosebach AG were held by Kokswerke und Chemische Fabriken AG (Schering).

The Mosebach AG brothers changed their name to Duco AG in 1929 and relocated their headquarters from Riesa to Berlin-Spindlersfeld on the western part of the premises of the W. Spindler company , which had previously been taken over by Schering AG . With the change of name, the participation also changed. Initially, the majority of the shares in Duco AG were held by Kokswerke und Chemische Fabriken AG (Schering) and DuPont . The DuPont shares later went back to Schering AG. According to a document from the US Congress from 1942, Duco AG was allowed to continue to market DuPont's products during World War II, as long as it was ensured that DuPont still held 25% of the shares in Duco AG. Duco AG produced synthetic resin paints , nitrocellulose paints , oil paints and paint strippers . The company existed in Berlin-Spindlersfeld until 1949. In 1949, the technical staff, the manufacturing and process rights to the paints and the knowledge went to the Hermann Wiederhold Lackfabriken company . This made Hermann Wiederhold Lackfabriken one of the pioneers in the manufacture of unsaturated polyester in Germany. The Hermann Wiederhold Lackfabriken and "Ducolux" were taken over by Imperial Chemical Industries in 1975 and AkzoNobel in 2008 .

Duco AG was temporarily headed by Konrad Weil. Konrad Weil was a student of Adolf Windaus . Hans Berckemeyer and Wilhelm Borner were members of the Supervisory Board of Duco AG.

Innovation and awareness

In the United States , DuPont started producing innovative nitrocellulose lacquers under the names "Duco" and "Dulux" from 1925 onwards. On the German-speaking market, from 1929 onwards, Duco AG produced the nitrocellulose lacquers "Ducolux", for which it became famous, as a joint venture between DuPont and Kokswerke und Chemische Fabriken AG (Schering).

The “Ducolux” lacquers were described as “an outstanding invention for painting”. The drying time was reduced from more than 24 hours to three hours compared to oil varnishes. Coverage, opacity and durability were significantly higher than with oil paints. The quality was constant due to the synthetic production. The word mark “Ducolux” was registered for the first time on June 1, 1939 at the German Patent and Trademark Office . and persists

A large number of trucks in Germany were marked “Ducolux”.

Further Duco AG

From 1961 to 1978 there was a Duco AG in Bergkamen as a subsidiary of Schering AG, which from 1963 was the holding company for the foreign subsidiaries of Schering AG.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wlasich, The Schering AG in the time of National Socialism. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814203-1-9 , p. 93 f.
  2. ↑ HistoMap Berlin, Historical Map 1932
  3. ↑ United States. Congress. Senates. Committee on Patents: Patents: Hearings Before the Committee on Patents, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session , Part 5, US Government Printing Office, 1942, p. 2314
  4. ↑ Wlasich, Schering AG in the period of National Socialism. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814203-1-9 , pp. 236-239.
  5. ^ Hermann Wiederhold, Lackfabriken. Hilden 1952, p. 27.
  6. ↑ Rainer Drewello, Crystal clear and stable - an early, unsaturated polyester as a protective varnish on the wall painting of the Basilica of Constantine, p. 62 f.
  7. ↑ Wlasich, Schering AG in the period of National Socialism. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814203-1-9 , p. 92 f.
  8. ^ War Department Pamphlet No. 31-1515. 1940, pp. 61, 63.
  9. ↑ Rainer Drewello, Crystal clear and stable - an early, unsaturated polyester used as a protective varnish on the wall painting of the Basilica of Constantine, p. 63.
  10. ^ German Patent and Trademark Office, register number 512055 .
  11. ↑ German Patent and Trademark Office, register number 39928244 .
  12. ↑ Karsten Hoyer: International Human Resources Management: Development Strategies for Remuneration and Employment Design, Springer-Verlag, 2005 p. 162 [1]
  13. ^ No more Berlin discount: Schering AG works with Bayer , Die Zeit 24/1964 of June 12, 1964