Fulda tires

Fulda tires
legal form	GmbH
founding	1900
Seat	Hanau , Germany
Website	www.fulda.com

Advertising board with old logo

Factory site in Fulda (2019)

Fulda EcoControl HP car tires on a steel rim in the dimension 195/65 R 15 (2017)

Fulda Reifen (originally Gummiwerke Fulda) is a tire manufacturer .

The tire plant in Fulda is one of the six German locations within the Goodyear Dunlop Group . The tires are developed at the Goodyear Innovation Center in Colmar-Berg (Luxembourg). Fulda now concentrates almost exclusively on the replacement business with deliveries to tire retailers. The original equipment business is mainly operated in the truck and agricultural tire product segments.

Company history

The company was founded in 1900 by Gustav Becker and Moritz Hasenclever and built up as a manufacturer of technical rubber items in Fulda. In 1906 the company manufactured the first solid rubber tires. In 1909 the company was converted into a stock corporation, the Gummiwerke AG . The merger with the company Seiberling Rubber Co. Akron / Ohio was completed in 1927, and the company also produced pneumatic tires with tubes for the first time that year. Eight years later, in 1935, the company started making Buna tires. In addition, Vorwerk und Sohn took over the share capital of Gummiwerke Fulda .

During the Second World War , production was switched to a war economy . In an Allied bombing raid on September 11, 1944, the rubber works' production facilities were completely destroyed.

In August 1946 tires were being manufactured again in temporary buildings. In 1947 the company again employed 630 people and in early 1949 the full pre-war output was achieved again. In 1953 the company expanded its range of activities to include the manufacture of tubeless car tires. In 1962 it was finally taken over by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company . With the introduction of off-road tires with white letters, the company introduced a new product line in 1994. In 1997 the company sponsored the Yukon Quest for the first time and in 1999 a private weather service was installed with FULDAnet . On July 1, 2009, the sales company Fulda Reifen GmbH was transferred to Goodyear Dunlop Tires Germany GmbH .

Web links

Commons : Fulda Reifen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Fulda tires
• Goodyear Dunlop
• Early documents and newspaper articles on Fulda Tires in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Heiler : Basics of Fulda industrial history in the 19th and 20th centuries in Gregor Stasch (ed.), Thomas Heiler: Maschinenbau in Fulda - Klein & Stiefel (1905–1979) (book accompanying the exhibition in the Vonderau Museum Fulda from January 20th - April 2, 2006), Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, ISBN 3-86568-067-4 , p. 12
2. ↑ Thomas Heiler : Basics of Fulda industrial history in the 19th and 20th centuries in Gregor Stasch (ed.), Thomas Heiler: Maschinenbau in Fulda - Klein & Stiefel (1905–1979) (book accompanying the exhibition in the Vonderau Museum Fulda from January 20th - April 2, 2006), Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, ISBN 3-86568-067-4 , p. 14
3. ^ Jubilee in Fulda. Die Zeit (No. 30/1950), July 27, 1950, accessed on June 11, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Thomas Heiler : Basics of Fulda industrial history in the 19th and 20th centuries in Gregor Stasch (ed.), Thomas Heiler: Maschinenbau in Fulda - Klein & Stiefel (1905–1979) (book accompanying the exhibition in the Vonderau Museum Fulda from January 20th - April 2, 2006), Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, ISBN 3-86568-067-4 , pp. 14-15
5. ^ Jubilee in Fulda. Die Zeit (No. 30/1950), July 27, 1950, accessed on June 11, 2019 .