Emil Vollrath

Tear-off pad (excerpt) from 1914 with a picture of the “factory establishment ” with its around 8,000 m² of usable space

Emil Vollrath was the name of a company in the German meat industry based in Hanover , which was the largest in the branch at the beginning of the 20th century.

history

The Emil Vollrath company operated its factory in Calenberger Straße , where the butcher and later entrepreneur Johann Weishäupl and his wife Elisabeth also worked before the two of them worked as meat manufacturers themselves on Engelbosteler Damm and then on Klagesmarkt during the German Empire from 1912 were.

At the beginning of the Hannoversche Schützenfest, the Emil Vollrath company - the "[...] most important sausage, cold cuts and canned meat factory" - advertised on 6 July 1913 in the Hannoversche Anzeiger for Hannoversche Fest-Würstchen . As early as the 25th year, the company would be offering its products on Schützenplatz , in the round section in the center of the square mainly boiled and roast sausages, "[...] the latter with sauerkraut, horseradish or potato salad".

In the meantime - like the Weishäupl couple - the meat product manufacturer Fritz Ahrberg , who worked in Linden , had started building his own network of branches after setting up his sausage factory of the same name . And although the "factory establishment" Emil Vollrath was still able to trump around 20,000 pigs in the year at the beginning of the First World War with its last annual slaughter and slaughtering of around 20,000 pigs, and even offered its shipping goods for export in the German Levante newspaper in 1915 , it did not last especially due to the war influences with the company downhill. In 1914 the management changed to the new owner Max Vollrath , who is said to have managed the “most important space and mail order business” for canned meat in Calenberger Strasse 36 and later also in Asternstrasse 2-4 . At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Vollrath had to file for bankruptcy, while Fritz Ahrberg was able to continue his ascent to “sausage king”.

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  Sale in the round part of the Schützenplatz at the beginning of the Hanoverian Schützenfest , around 1900; Postcard No. 602 from Ludwig Hemmer

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  Branch store with large shop windows on Reitwallstrasse (right) at the corner of Georgstrasse , 1906; Colored card No. 106 of the North German paper industry

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  Shipping conditions for around 140 meat products offered daily, around 1914; Back of a tear-off invoice sheet

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  Branch in the house Wiener Café am Kröpcke ; Postcard No. 648 from an anonymous photographer

Web links

Commons : Emil Vollrath  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Weishäupl, Johann. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 380; Preview over google books
2. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Weishäupl, Johann W., Fleisch- und Wurstwarenfabrik GmbH. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 662f .; Preview over google books
3. ↑ ^{a b} Horst Deuker: What are the prospects for Fritz Ahrberg in 1913? , in this: Fritz Ahrberg. Factory owner - patron - sponsor (= tours , issue 5), ed. von Quartier eV, Hannover-Linden: Quartier eV, 2016, ISSN 1614-2926, p. 32f.
4. ↑ Compare form number 7661 from Vollrath from 1914
5. ^ Deutsche Levante-Zeitung: Organ of the Deutsche Levante-Linie ... , Volume 5 (1915), p. 91; Preview over google books
6. ↑ Bernd Sperlich: Fritz Ahrberg - a tailor's son is "sausage king" on the side myheimat.de of 28 May 2016 last downloaded 10 February 2017