Franz Kaminski (entrepreneur)

Franz Kaminski (* before 1893, † after 1944) was a German entrepreneur .

Company history until 1945

The brothers Franz and Georg Kaminski founded a welding, pressing and stamping shop in Linden near Hanover in 1914 , in which they manufactured fittings for all types of vehicles.

On April 1, 1919, the Kaminski brothers moved to Hameln , where they had acquired the Richardt'sche shipyard (Werftstrasse 20), which had been closed eight years earlier , and began building Weser ships up to 800 tons and repairing them. The property was around 21,500 m² in size, located on the navigable Hamel and was siding in 1923. They had 450 employees for the new construction and repair of steamers and Weser barges.

The G. & F. Kaminski oHG was 15 July 1922 in the Weser works G. & F. Kaminski corporation with headquarters transferred to Hameln. In 1926/1927 a flood in the Weser , in which huge masses of silt separated the shipyard from the Weser, put an end to operations. Georg left and Franz set up a mining equipment company on the site.

In the autumn of 1919, Franz set up a branch on Kuhbrückenstrasse. Here, in cooperation with the Hanover Railway Directorate , freight wagons were repaired , and later the Deutsche Reichsbahn passenger cars as well . Franz Kaminski Waggonbau GmbH , founded in 1921 , soon employed 300 people again. The construction of tank cars began in 1935 , and the first years of the war marked a boom in orders. In addition to Hameln, the company now has locations in Joinville in France, Nysa in Poland and Debrecen in Hungary .

Franz Kaminski got into arms production in 1937 when he received an order to revise BMW aircraft engines. To do this, he leased the neighboring Selve plants and parts of the Sinram & Wendt wood goods and clothes hanger factory . In 1944 he employed a good 1000 workers, around half of whom were forced laborers .

literature

Bernhard Gelderblom , Mario Keller-Holte: Foreign forced labor in Hameln and in the Hameln-Pyrmont district 1939–1945. Verlag Jörg Mitzkat, Holzminden 2006, ISBN 3-931656-96-9 , p. 145 and more often, especially p. 177-192. ( Content text ) ( limited preview in Google Book Search)

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Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Bernhard Gelderblom, Mario Keller-Holte: Foreign Forced Labor in Hameln and in the Hameln-Pyrmont District 1939–1945. Verlag Jörg Mitzkat, Holzminden 2006, ISBN 3-931656-96-9 , p. 145 and more often, especially p. 177-192. ( Content text ) ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
↑ Bernhard Gelderblom, Mario Keller-Holte: Foreign forced labor in Hameln and in the Hameln-Pyrmont district 1939–1945 . Verlag Jörg Mitzkat, Holzminden 2006, ISBN 3-931656-96-9 , p. 145.

personal data
SURNAME	Kaminski, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	19th century
DATE OF DEATH	20th century

[Zwangsarbeiterlager-1] Bernhard Gelderblom, Mario Keller-Holte: Foreign Forced Labor in Hameln and in the Hameln-Pyrmont District 1939–1945. Verlag Jörg Mitzkat, Holzminden 2006, ISBN 3-931656-96-9 , p. 145 and more often, especially p. 177-192. ( Content text ) ( limited preview in Google Book Search)

[2] Bernhard Gelderblom, Mario Keller-Holte: Foreign forced labor in Hameln and in the Hameln-Pyrmont district 1939–1945 . Verlag Jörg Mitzkat, Holzminden 2006, ISBN 3-931656-96-9 , p. 145.