FC Bayerlein

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FC Bayerlein
legal form
founding 1809
resolution 1979
Seat Bayreuth, Germany
Branch Textile industry

The spinning , twisting and dyeing mill F. C. Bayerlein was a textile company in Bayreuth that existed for 170 years from its foundation in 1809 to its closure in 1979.

Foundation phase

During the French occupation of the Principality of Bayreuth , the merchant Johann Gotthilf Bayerlein (1769–1821) bought the house in what is now Maxstrasse 58 in Bayreuth on January 26, 1809 in order to establish a haberdashery and cutlery shop. Later, the cloth trade and from around 1826 an own wool weaving mill supplemented the business activities. Even in this early phase, the raw materials came from other European countries (e.g. Italy, Spain, England) and the products were exported there.

From 1832 the son Friedrich Christian Bayerlein (1810-1893) took over the business, after whose initials the company name (company) was formed. Business activities in the haberdashery and cut goods sectors declined in favor of our own cloth production and textile dyeing. From 1853 the government of Upper Franconia granted the concession for the "establishment of a factory shop with cotton and semi- cotton goods". In 1854 Bayerlein relocated his factory to Neudrossenfeld and, after Bayreuth was connected to the railway network, gradually moved it back to the original city between 1860 and 1867. A factory of its own was opened there from 1876 in Im Graben.

Heyday

From 1879 on, the two sons Julius and Eduard Bayerlein (1852–1913) took over the business from their father. After Julius left at his own request after differences, Eduard continued to run the business alone. He put various expansion plans into action and built new buildings for the company, including the mechanical spinning mill in 1894 on what is now Eduard-Bayerlein-Straße.

Strong competition for the company were the local businesses, Mechanical Cotton-Spinning Bayreuth and New Cotton-Spinning Bayreuth (NSB).

Around 1908 disputes and power struggles took place with the newly founded workers' organizations , which were primarily about wage increases. In 1913 Adolf Bayerlein (1879–1946) took over the factory from his late father, which from 1916 was classified as an "important military operation" as part of the Hindenburg program during the First World War . However, due to a lack of material due to the war, the spinning mill had to be converted to the production and processing of paper yarn . The lack of fuel for energy production also caused major problems for the company during and after the war.

From 1931 Fritz Bayerlein (1905–1996), son of Adolf Bayerlein, joined the company.

Second World War

During the Second World War , almost 80% of the factory buildings were destroyed in a bomb attack on Bayreuth on April 5, 1945 . The attack was aimed at the Aero company , which among other things had control systems for combat aircraft manufactured on the site . As early as January 14, 1941, the attack by a single aircraft had severely damaged the raw material store.

On December 15, 1943, the Hamburg company Aero informed the Reich Aviation Ministry of its planned production program for Bayreuth: delivery of complete gearboxes for the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft as well as parts for the Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" fighter aircraft and the Panther tank . Buildings with a floor space of 3960 square meters and a total workforce of 350 people are necessary. The renovations began on December 1, 1943, and full production should start on January 15, 1944. The four converted halls included a locksmith's shop, a measuring test room, a blueprint shop, a material and tool store, an electrician's department, the operations office, the turning and milling shop, the grinding shop, the tool shop, as well as the hardening shop and the welding shop. Three fragmentation bunkers and fragmentation trenches for 100 people were provided to protect against air attacks.

Two barracks were set up in February 1944 for the slave laborers employed by Aero . The total of 211 men and women came from the Netherlands , the Soviet Union , France , Italy , Poland and Yugoslavia , the youngest among them was the Russian Anna Romanenja, born in 1929. Other halls served as " Eastern workers' accommodation " on the premises of the neighboring companies Beyer & Co. and Rotter.

post war period

From 1946 Fritz Bayerlein specialized in the processing of synthetic fibers and expanded the company further.

Takeover and shutdown

In 1972 the company FC Bayerlein was bought up by the Kulmbacher spinning mill and shut down in 1979. A hotel was opened on the site in July 1993.

Number of employees

Employment figures from 1875 to 1939

The number of employees developed as follows:

  • 1875: 47
  • 1902: 333
  • 1912: 610
  • 1918: 191
  • 1921: 560
  • 1927: 612
  • 1939: approx. 1000
  • Early 1950s: approx. 750

Trivia

Eduard Bayerlein traveled to Berlin in June 1895 and presented Otto von Bismarck with the letter of honorary citizenship on behalf of the Bayreuth magistrate . The honorary citizenship of the city was given to the "iron chancellor" on the occasion of his eightieth birthday in April.

The Privy Adolf Bayerlein, motor vehicle officer in the First World War , was the first examiner of the city. The tests took place on the premises of the spinning mill, Bayerlein assessed the driving skills of the test subjects from the window.

literature

  • FC Bayerlein: (company publication) For the 150th company anniversary. FC Bayerlein - Bayreuth. Spinning, twisting, bleaching, dyeing . Printing: Buchdruckerei Emil Mühl, Bayreuth 1956.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is who in Bayreuth - Johann Gotthilf Bayerlein ( Memento of the original from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of April 16, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barnick.de
  2. ↑ a b Fritz Bayerlein: The history of the FC Bayerlein company The economic situation of the former Principality of Bayreuth from 1806 - 1810. With an appendix: The history of the FC BAYERLEIN company. Cotton spinning and twisting mill in Bayreuth ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barnick.de
  3. ↑ a b Nordbayrischer Kurier: 'Being a weirdo was still honorable'  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from January 4, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nordbayerischer-kurier.de  
  4. ^ Herbert Popp: Bayreuth - newly discovered , p. 123 f.
  5. ↑ a b Nordbayrischer Kurier: '200 years of family tradition'  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from January 23, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nordbayerischer-kurier.de  
  6. ^ Albrecht Bald / Jörg Skriebelein: The Bayreuth satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp , p. 52.
  7. ↑ Bernd Mayer : Bayreuth April 1945 , p. 11.
  8. ↑ a b Secret war production in the spinning mill in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from 20./21. October 2018, p. 15.
  9. ↑ Who is who in Bayreuth - Dr. Fritz Bayerlein ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of April 16, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barnick.de
  10. ↑ 25 years ago in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of July 9, 2018, p. 8.
  11. ↑ Bernd and Gerda Mayer: Work and live in Bayreuth . Sutton, Erfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-745-7 , p. 36 .
  12. ↑ Bernd Mayer : Bayreuth as it was. Flash lights from the city's history 1850–1950 . 2nd Edition. Gondrom, Bayreuth 1981, p. 53 f .
  13. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth as it was , p. 77.