Eberswalder ticket factory
| Eberswalder ticket factory | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH (from 1914) |
| founding | 1876 |
| Seat | Eberswalde |
| management | Conrad Kemnitz, Bruno Natsch |
| Branch | Ticket factory |
The Eberswalder Billettfabrik , or Ebifa for short , was a ticket factory in Eberswalde .
history
In 1876 the musician Conrad Kemnitz opened a printing company in Eberswalde. The business apparently flourished, because as early as 1884 he moved into larger quarters at Kirchstrasse 17. Kemnitz moved his company again in 1888: he built a residential and office building at Moltkestrasse 2 (today: Schillerstrasse, corner of Pfeil-Strasse) and the new factory next door, which also housed a steam engine. The company was later located in Bergerstrasse.
Kemnitz printed, among other things, postcards based on motifs by Richard Knötel . It apparently operated under the name of "Kunstanstalt Conrad Kemnitz, Eberswalde" at times. Gradually he specialized in ticket production and related fields. In 1901 he patented a device for issuing discount stamps, etc.
In 1906 the printing company was renamed “Ticket Factory Conrad Kemnitz, Eberswalde”. In 1914 it became a GmbH.
Under the later director Bruno Natsch, who had been managing director since 1913, it also gained notoriety beyond Brandenburg. After the end of the Second World War, attempts were initially made to get the company up and running again. In December 1945, twelve employees began to build functional machines again from leftovers and spare parts, because the machines that were still in existence had been brought to the USSR as reparations .
In 1948 the expropriation followed and in 1953 the VEB Kassenblock took over the remaining machines. That was the end of the story of Eberswald's only ticket factory. The area on Bergerstrasse, where it had last been based, was still used by the household goods wholesale company. Since the end of the GDR , the buildings of the former ticket factory have been empty and dilapidated.
literature
- Eberhard Wühle, Die Eberswalder Billettfabrik "Ebifa" , in: Eberswalder Jahrbuch 2006/07, p. 37 ff. (?)
Web links
- Picture collection on www.grussauspotsdam.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ See e.g. B. the photo postcard of the Elspas siblings on www-old.bildpostkarten.uni-osnabrueck.de .
- ^ C. Heymanns Verlag: Patentblatt . C. Heymanns Verlag, 1901, p. 657 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ^ Otto Elsner Verlagsgesellschaft: The paper manufacturer . Otto Elsner Verlagsgesellschaft, 1914, p. 327 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ^ Otto Elsner Verlagsgesellschaft: The paper manufacturer . Otto Elsner Verlagsgesellschaft, 1913, p. 1287 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ^ Brandenburg (Germany) .: Law and Ordinance Gazette of the State of Brandenburg . Keip Verlag Goldbach, 1993, p. 29 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ↑ "Ebifa" on www.bab-lokalanzeiger.de