Fruchthof Berlin

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Logo of the Fruchthof Berlin

The Fruchthof Berlin in the Berlin district of Moabit ( Beusselstrasse 44n – q) is part of the Berlin wholesale market . Around 100 companies are based here on an area of ​​around 85,000 square meters, around 50 of which are medium-sized wholesalers.

Infrastructure

The operating company of the Fruchthof Berlin is the Fruchthof Berlin Verwaltungsgenossenschaft eG. It is the general tenant of Berliner Großmarkt GmbH and, in addition to the sales areas in the Fruchthofhalle, operates most of the central infrastructure facilities on Berlin's wholesale market. The total throughput at Fruchthof Berlin is around 220,000 tons per year. The catchment area extends from the Berlin / Brandenburg region via Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to Saxony . The locally based companies and other members of the cooperative based on the Berlin wholesale market provide around half of the jobs on the Berlin wholesale market with over 1200.

Companies

Interior shot of the fruit yard
Aerial view of the site, 1965
The beginnings of the Fruchthof Berlin, 1949
The Fruchthof Berlin, 1951

The development, administration and operation of the Fruchthof as well as other infrastructural facilities are part of the statutory promotion and support of its member companies and the locally based wholesalers.

The managing directors are the two board members Dieter Krauss and Max Köpke. The 30 members (comrades) of the cooperative are 23 medium-sized wholesalers, as well as the seven members of the supervisory board and executive board. The supervisory board is composed of five representatives from the member companies. Together with its subsidiary, Fruchthof Berlin Service GmbH, the cooperative employs a total of ten people in management and administration and works with specialized service providers in almost all other areas.

The cooperative is a member of the World Association of Wholesale Markets (World Union of Wholesale Markets, WUWM) and the Community to promote the interests of Germany's fresh produce markets (GFI). She is also a member of the German Fruit Trade Association (DFHV) and of Initiative 5 am Tag .

history

After the division of Berlin following the Second World War in 1945, the previous central market halls on Alexanderplatz were located in the eastern part of the city, which is increasingly difficult to reach . The fruit and vegetable wholesalers based in the western part of Berlin turned to the Berlin magistrate to set up and operate their own central wholesale market for the western sectors of Berlin. However, because the state did not have funds for this, they were asked to do so independently. That was the hour of birth of the Fruchthof Berlin Verwaltungsgenossenschaft eG. From 1949 to 1965, the cooperative operated the fruit and vegetable wholesale market and central wholesale market facilities, initially in Mariendorf and from March 20, 1965 on the wholesale market site in Beusselstrasse. In the first few years of its existence, it brokered around 90% of West Berlin sales in fruit, vegetables, southern and dried fruit.

In 2007, the approximately 30,000 square meter large Fruchthofhalle was renovated together with Berliner Großmarkt GmbH and reopened on March 20, 2008.

Planning for the future of the Fruchthof

Economics Senator Ramona Pop in conversation with District Mayor Monika Herrmann and Fruchthof Board Member Dieter Krauss

Under the leadership of the Fruchthof, the Food and Freshness Cluster Berlin (IG LFC Berlin) interest group was founded on August 1st, 2017. The IG LFC Berlin organizes dealers from the fruit farm, meat and flower wholesale market who are represented at the wholesale market. It is supported by more than 100 companies at the location - also by Markthalle IX in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The IG's spokesman is Dieter Krauss, Fruchthof's board member. IG LFC Berlin aims to acquire a heritable building right for the entire wholesale market area. With optimized buildings and improved infrastructure at a fundamentally modernized location, retailers should be able to make their contribution to Berlin's supply even better and more effectively in the future.

Publications

  • Hundred years of fruit and vegetables in Berlin Vegetable wholesale. Ten years of Fruchthof Berlin. Documents and Reports. Fruchthof Berlin eGmbH (publisher) self-published. Edited by Willy Hohmann, Uwe Sass. Berlin, 1959
  • Brochure Fruchthof Berlin , as of February 2017
  • Brochure Berlin Wholesale Market , as of December 2010

Web links

Commons : Berliner Großmarkt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin wholesale market for vitamins. In: Die Zeit , December 16, 1954
  2. ↑ Dealers want to take over wholesale market direction . In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 21, 2017
  3. ↑ Wholesalers join forces. At: ihk-berlin , p. 29
  4. ↑ Retailers want to control the wholesale market themselves. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 23, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Dealer initiative wants to take over the wholesale market. In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 23, 2017