FM Hämmerle
FM Hämmerle was an Austrian textile company based in Dornbirn in Vorarlberg . The company existed from 1836 to 2016 and was the largest textile company in Austria in the mid-1980s with more than 2,200 employees.
history
The company was founded by Franz Martin Hämmerle in 1836. In 1846 he had a building 13 axes long, four windows wide and five and a half storeys high erected in Dornbirn Oberdorf - the Steinebach dye works . In the so-called “Glöckelehaus” from 1826 there was formerly a needle factory, later the offices were housed there. In the second half of the 19th century, new structures were built: a dye works, a bleaching plant and also drying towers, which are no longer preserved today.
FM Hämmerle was an exhibitor in the industrial palace of the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 . The company presented raw cotton yarns, dyed and printed cotton fabrics and was awarded the progress medal for its goods. At that time the company was one of the most important in the textile industry. At that time 650 workers were employed with four steam engines, a locomobile and 350 mechanical looms in the factory.
In March 1938, immediately after the so-called annexation of Austria to the National Socialist German Reich , the Hämmerle company was involved in the Aryanization of the Herzmansky department store in Vienna together with the Rhomberg textile company from Dornbirn . For only 600,000 Reichsmarks , the two companies jointly acquired the department store from the property transaction office, which had posted a profit of 810,000 Reichsmarks in the previous financial year alone.
In 1975 the company received the state award and was allowed to use the federal coat of arms in business transactions. In 1986, in the 150th year of its existence, FM Hämmerle employed 2,100 people and achieved a turnover of 1.5 billion schillings (around 109 million euros).
In 1983 FM Hämmerle AG was converted into a holding company, FM Hämmerle Beteiligungs AG. In 2000, FM Hämmerle Beteiligungs-AG was divided into the two operating parts FM Hämmerle Holding AG and FM Hämmerle Textilwerke AG. The holding included the operating and real estate units Gütle, Gisingen, Sägen Hochbau, Cape Town, Oberdorf, Rhenofil-Montlingen, Rüsch-Werke and Steinebach . The FM Hämmerle Textilwerke AG consisted of the finishing company Fischbach and the local thermal power station and the weaving mill including its Vorwerk in Sägen Shedbau. The yarn dyeing was continued by Textilwerke AG at Holding AG in Steinebach.
In July 2008, FM Hämmerle Textilwerke AG had to file for bankruptcy. On July 31, bankruptcy proceedings were opened at the Feldkirch Regional Court on the company's own application with a debt level of around 6 million euros . According to the credit protection association, this affected 312 employees and around 300 creditors. Bankruptcy was opened in June 2009 for the assets of the successor company. The successor company was FM Hämmerle Nfg GmbH, which belongs to the Oswal Group. The sole shareholder of the Oswal Group is Vardhman Polytex Limited, based in Ludhiana Punjab , India .
Spinnerei Feldkirch GmbH, which was separated from FM Hämmerle Textilwerke in 1992 and previously integrated into FM Hämmerle Holding AG , which also includes FM Hämmerle Immobilien, was not affected by the bankruptcy . In 1997 FM Hämmerle Holding AG owned around two million square meters of land in Vorarlberg and was the largest landowner in Dornbirn.
On April 14, 2016, Spinnerei Feldkirch GmbH announced the closure. The poor market situation, tough competition, price pressure and, most recently, the loss of a major customer were decisive, according to Petra Kreuzer, Member of the Management Board of FM Hämmerle Holding. It was not about insolvency, the employees' salary and wage claims should be met. The Feldkirch spinning mill is the last textile company owned by FM Hämmerle.
Products
- City
- Casual
- Pigment dyed
- Evening
- Woman
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Textile factories in Vorarlberg; Renate Madritsch , State Conservatory for Vorarlberg
- ^ Jutta Pemsel: The Vienna World Exhibition of 1873: The Wilhelminian Vienna at the turning point. Vienna / Cologne, Böhlau Verlag 1989, p. 55, ISBN 3205052471
- ↑ Harald Walser : Anti-Semitism in Vorarlberg. In: Website of the Austrian Memorial Service . 2002, accessed August 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Paragraph quoted according to information from the company archive of FM Hämmerle, compiled especially for this Wikipedia article by Franz Josef Huber (* 1926): " Small power plant FM Hämmerle Weberei Sägen ", " Aus der Betriebsgeschichte Sägen ", p. 8 f.
- ↑ FM Hämmerle goes bankrupt
- ^ Report of the ORF Vorarlberg from July 31, 2008 on the opening of bankruptcy proceedings.
- ↑ Bankruptcy proceedings opened against FM Hämmerle
- ^ Website of FM Hämmerle Holding AG
- ↑ http://vorarlberg.orf.at/news/stories/2768600/ Spinning mill closed: 80 employees lose jobs, orf.at, April 14, 2016, accessed April 14, 2016.