Emil Mehle

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Flours company emblem
Company emblem, around 1920
Mehle factory in Göttingen, south side
Old flour files

Emil Mehle (born March 25, 1868 in Grünstadt , † July 23, 1960 in Göttingen ) was a German entrepreneur and manufacturer of files and office registry items.

family

He was born in Grünstadt in what was then the Bavarian Palatinate as the son of the married couple Wilhelm Mehle (1834–1909) and Helene Mehle born. Heichemer (1835–1909) born. The father died just two days after the mother on the day of her funeral. The “Grünstadter Zeitung” of February 20, 1909 commented on the extraordinary double death of the parents with the words: “A respected local family was brought into painful mourning, in which death stopped in the same way as it probably did in the annals of the local city has seldom been recorded. "

Emil Mehle's brothers Heinrich and Ludwig lived, like himself, in Göttingen . Her single sister Anna Mehle was a shop owner in Grünstadt in 1928 and was the victim of a robbery that has not yet been resolved.

The graves of the parents and the sister were still preserved in the Grünstadt cemetery in 2018.

Life

Mehle attended the Progymnasium Grünstadt and later moved to Göttingen.

Here in 1896 he founded a factory for ring binders made of cardboard, which expanded into a large company that achieved national importance with its products. In the 1930s it operated as a "factory for letter files and stationery" and had the legal form of a GmbH. From the beginning, the company and residence was Göttingen, Weender Landstrasse 67–69, later 65–71. The Göttingen City Archives moved into this former factory in 2020 .

The best- known articles were the letter files patented in 1905 with the green label "MEHLE" , which were used in almost every German office.

Emil Mehle married Luise Bade (1873–1959). The company passed to his son Heinrich Mehle (1906–1978), who was born in Meta. Westphal (1910-1996) had married. All of these people are buried in the Göttingen city cemetery.

During the Second World War , the government employed around 50 Italian slave laborers at the Mehle GmbH, which was important for the war effort, and they lived on the premises. The factory suffered severe damage in the last bomb attack on Göttingen on April 7, 1945 and had to be rebuilt in order to continue production.

In 2006 the company, which was still family-owned up to this point, was sold to competitor ELBA and the range in Gelsenkirchen continued to be sold under the name of the newly founded Emil Mehle GmbH . Today (2018) there is only the long-established brand name under which the document boxes developed by the previous company are offered. Mehle owned several patents for various office items.

The “Emil-Mehle-Weg” in Göttingen is named after the entrepreneur .

literature

  • 200th anniversary of the Progymnasium Grünstadt , list of still living students, Riedel Verlag, Grünstadt, 1929, p. 22
  • Wilfried Feldenkirchen, Susanne Hilger: Louis Leitz , Verlag Ullstein, 2000, p. 14, ISBN 3548359442 ; (Detail scan)
  • Patentblatt , published by the Imperial Patent Office , Volume 34, Part 2, p. 1267, 1910, (detail scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 200th anniversary of the Progymnasium Grünstadt , list of still living students, Riedel Verlag, Grünstadt, 1929, p. 22
  2. ↑ Patentblatt , published by Kaiserl. Patent Office, 1905, Volume 29, Part 1, p. 503 u. 515; (Detail scans)
  3. ↑ Website with photos of the family graves in Göttingen
  4. ^ Website of the Göttingen City Archives
  5. ↑ Website of the company Mehle GmbH
  6. ↑ Website on Mehle document boxes
  7. ↑ Example of a patent from Mehle
  8. ↑ Website on Emil-Mehle-Weg
personal data
SURNAME Flour, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mehle, Christian Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, manufacturer of files and office registry items
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1960
Place of death Goettingen