Paint factories ET Gleitsmann

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The Farbensabricken ET Gleitsmann is a 1847 in Leipzig was established in ink manufacturer . After an eventful history with branch plants in Dresden , Berlin , Russia, Italy, Sweden and Austria-Hungary as well as various commercial branches and a later split, parts of the company today belong to the Hubergroup as Gleitsmann Security Inks GmbH based in Berlin, or the former inking plant in Sweden to the Luxembourgish one Flint Group . In addition, there are other parts of the company such as the independent Gleitsmann International GmbH in Neusäß near Augsburg .

history

ETGleitsmann paint factories, Dresden around 1914

The pharmacist and chemist Emil Theodor Gleitsmann († 1898) founded the chemical factory for dry paints in Leipzig in 1847 . The first facility was a mill in Zehmen .

Around 1867, Theodor Gleitsmann moved his business to Dresden-Johannstadt and built a dye works with linseed oil boiling plant, two soot distilleries and a resin distillation as well as a manufacturer's villa on several properties of the former nursery of Rudolf Hermann Lüdicke in the Blumen- und Gutenbergstraße by the end of the 19th century. From then on, the company traded under the name of Farbenfabriken ET Gleitsmann and, in addition to dry colored inks, also produced security printing inks for banknotes and postage stamps. After residents complained about considerable nuisance from emissions, the city banned new industrial settlements in 1898, which cause soot, fumes, smells, noises, vibrations and considerable nuisance in the neighborhood of apartments . In the same year, Gleitsmann built another printing ink factory in Rabenstein an der Pielach in Lower Austria, which also entered the specialist literature because of its water wheel that is 4 meters wide and 5 meters in diameter.

After Theodor Gleitsmann's death in 1898, his son, the businessman Emil Arthur Gleitsmann (* 1853), took over the company as sole owner and expanded it further in the following years. At the time of the First World War there was already a trading post in Berlin , the head of which Alfred Schmitz had registered as a volunteer in 1915. In 1919 Emil Theodor Robert Gleitsmann (* 1895), the son of Arthur Gleitsmann, took over the Berlin trading branch. By 1920, Gleitsmann built further inking plants in Italy and Sweden.

Emil Arthur Gleitsmann left the company on September 29, 1934 and Robert Gleitsmann continued to run the company as sole owner in the third generation. At that time, there were inking plants and branches in Dresden, Berlin, Graz, Budapest, Lemberg, Brussels, Milan, Turin, Trelleborg, Zagreb and Sofia. During the Second World War , the paint factory on Blumenstrasse was badly damaged in the course of the air raids on Dresden . After the end of the war, the plant was managed and dismantled by the Russian occupying forces. Due to this and the political situation in East Germany, Robert Gleitsmann moved the company to his place of residence in Berlin as ET Gleitsmann GmbH & Co. KG in 1953.

In 1976 Michael Huber KG, based in Munich, acquired a majority stake in ET Gleitsmann GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin. In 1998 the Hubergroup was restructured and ET Gleitsmann GmbH & Co.KG renamed Gleitsmann Security Inks GmbH, which from then on took over the Hubergroup's security inks division. The remaining production areas were spun off in 2004 to Gleitsmann International GmbH based in Neusäß .

Historical traces

  • The villa in the Dresdener Blumenstrasse 70 of the art gardener Rudolf Hermann Lüdicke was acquired by Emil Theodor Gleitsmann in 1878 and used as a residence and production facility. The building now houses the Johannstadt pharmacy and is a listed building .
  • The factory owner's villa at Dresdener Blumenstrasse 80, built in 1867, is still preserved today and is a listed building.
  • Advertising exhibits from the paint factories ET Gleitsmann from the pre-war period can still be found today in many collections and archives.

Web links

Commons : ET Gleitsmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of Electrochemistry and Applied Physical Chemistry. Volume 20, German Bunsen Society for Applied Physical Chemistry (Ed.), Wilhelm Knapp, 1914, p. 397
  2. Communication . In: Farben-Zeitung . tape  28 , 1922, pp. 36 .
  3. a b c d Lars Herrmann: Blumenstrasse: Gleitsmann paint factory (No. 68-74). In: Dresden districts. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
  4. a b c E.T. Gleitsmann chemical paint factory. In: Johannstadtarchiv. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
  5. Anton Durstmüller, Norbert Frank: 500 years pressure in Austria. The Austrian graphic industry between revolution and world war, 1848 to 1918; Volume 2: The history of the development of the graphic arts industry from the beginning to the present . Main Association of Austrian Graphic Companies, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-85104-500-9 , p. 135 .
  6. Communication . In: Farben-Zeitung . tape  25 , 1920, pp. 26 .
  7. Communication . In: paper newspaper . tape  40 , no. 2 , 1915, p. 1111 .
  8. Staff and University News . In: The chemical factory . tape  7 , 1934, pp. 40 .
  9. a b Blumenstrasse 80. In: Altes Dresden. Jörg Brune, accessed on July 14, 2018 .
  10. ^ ET Gleitsmann Farbenfabriken - Dismantling damage in the trustee balance sheet. StA-D, Rep. 11384 No. 2996, December 31, 1945 . In: Klaus Neitmann , Jochen Laufer (eds.): Dismantling in the Soviet zone of occupation and in Berlin 1945 to 1948: Subject-related archive inventory . BWV Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8305-2921-7 , pp.  475 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  11. ^ ET Gleitsmann. In: The chemical industry. Volume 57, Verlag Chemie, 1934, p. 860.
  12. history. Hubergroup Deutschland GmbH, accessed on July 14, 2018 .
  13. Christian Schaller: Sustainable integration of marketing and innovation . Springer Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8350-9356-0 , pp. 195 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  14. a b Cultural monuments on the Dresden themed city map