Fuldaer stamping and enamelling works FC Bellinger

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Emaillierwerk AG
legal form Corporation
founding July 9, 1867
resolution 1969
Seat Fulda , GermanyGermanyGermany 

The Fuldaer Stanz- und Emaillierwerke FC Bellinger , after the transformation into a public limited company Emaillierwerk AG , were a company from Fulda. Founded in 1867, the company developed into a global export manufacturer of enamelled pots and bowls with up to 1,200 employees. The advent of everyday items made of plastic meant that the company had to close in 1969.

The listed facade of the former factory building has been preserved when it was converted into today's Emaillierwerk shopping center .

history

Aerial view of the enamelling works, circa 1950

The day the Emaillierwerk AG was founded was July 9, 1867, when Franz Carl Bellinger took over the family business that had existed since 1836 from his mother. The company, originally a plumber's workshop, produced brass, pewter and sheet metal household goods. The technique of enamelling brought economic success and the company, now known as Fuldaer Stanz- und Emaillierwerke FC Bellinger , grew rapidly.

For 1900, "about 600" employees are named; in 1914 the company was the largest in Fulda with over 1000 employees.

During the First World War , production was switched to steel helmets (abbreviation BF for Bellinger Fulda ).

After the conversion into a stock corporation on July 1, 1921, the son of Franz Carl Bellinger, Ludwig Bellinger , joined the company now trading under the name Emaillierwerk AG as technical director and member of the board.

During the Second World War , the Emaillierwerk AG again produced steel helmets (abbreviation EF , Emaillierwerk AG Fulda ). Between June 1942 and March 31, 1945, Emaillierwerk AG maintained a warehouse for up to 130 forced laborers on its company premises. From July 1944 the city of Fulda was repeatedly the target of Allied bombing attacks . During an attack on September 11, 1944, the enamelling plant was severely damaged.

A contribution from the Welt im Film series from June 3, 1946 shows, under the title "Kitchen appliances made from steel helmets", how around 500 workers in the Fulda enamel factory make kitchen appliances such as sieves, pots, pans and bowls from old steel helmets.

The company was increasingly burdened by the emergence of plastic consumables. In 1964 the company changed hands, but there was no economic success and in 1969 the business was closed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait: Franz Carl Bellinger. banddererinnerung-fulda.de, accessed on May 29, 2019 .
  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. 9
  3. ↑ Portrait: Franz Carl Bellinger. banddererinnerung-fulda.de, accessed on May 29, 2019 .
  4. ^ Fulda, camp for forced laborers, Emaillierwerk AG. lagis-hessen.de, February 21, 2011, accessed on May 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ Welt im Film 54/1946 from June 3, 1946. filmothek.bundesarchiv.de, June 3, 1946, accessed on May 29, 2019 .