Günther & Kleinmond
The Günther & Kleinmond GmbH is a former Frankfurt Precision Tool Factory, formerly Frankfurt-Rödelheim , Eschborn highway 112th
historical company headquarters
Eschborner Landstr. 112
Logo of the in-house steel ILIX EXTRA Record from Günther & Kleinmond
R. STOCK & Co. AG Berlin, 1938
Formerly cleared company premises of Günther & Kleinmond, now rebuilt by a competitor
history
In 1890, the entrepreneur Ludwig Günther began manufacturing twist drills in the Nordend district of Frankfurt, Sandweg 104. Günther & Co. Präzisionswerkzeuge moved to the Bockenheim district, Adalbertstrasse 7 (ISG Frankfurt am Main) as early as 1891.
Almost at the same time, another company called Frankfurter Precision Tool Factory Günther & Kleinmond GmbH was founded in Adalbertstrasse 11 in 1895. The latter was bought shortly afterwards by the furniture manufacturer Heinrich Langenbach, Frankfurt-Westend, Schumannstrasse 4. From then on, the entrepreneurial and capital-based connections with Günther & Co. Präzisionswerkzeuge ended. The ISG Frankfurt still keeps business documents of the Günther & Kleinmond GmbH company from 1917 with its registered office at Mainzer Landstrasse 193.
In 1938 the Jewish owner Heinrich Langenbach was forced to sell his company Präzisionswerkzeuge Günther & Kleinmond GmbH during the Aryanization process. The new owner was R. Stock & Co., Spiralbohrer-, Werkzeug- und Maschinenfabrik AG., Berlin. General director Peter Speck (CEO of Stock AG) and the longstanding authorized signatory of the old company, Director Georg Kappus, Oberursel a. T. determined.
Around 1942/43, 112 barracks were built on the company camp in Eschborner Landstrasse, in which the forced laborers employed in the plant were housed. The accommodation of French foreign workers in the winter of 1942 and also the accommodation of Russian foreign workers in 1942 is documented.
In 1951/52 the reconstruction of the factory in Frankfurt-Rödelheim, Eschborner Landstrasse 112, which had been badly damaged in World War II, was completed. The plant now employed around 750 people again. Major shareholder of the AG listed in Frankfurt / Main and Berlin was Elikraft Elektro Licht- und Kraftanlagen AG in Berlin.
In 1956, the US competitor Union Twist Drill Co., the largest American tool manufacturer from Athol, Massachusetts, USA, acquired 94% of the stock shares from Elikraft Berlin.
In 1968, only twelve years after buying shares, the US-Americans UTD resold their block of stock shares to Fritz Werner Verwaltungs-GmbH Berlin, which renamed itself R. Stock AG after the purchase.
1969 saw the complete relocation of the Frankfurt precision tool factory Günther & Kleinmond from Frankfurt-Rödelheim, Eschborner Landstrasse 112 to the former factory of Fritz Werner Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH Berlin. The traditional company name Günther & Kleinmond was dispensed with. It went under and the factory became an integrated part of Robert Stock AG Berlin, which is still a leading manufacturer of drills, milling and reaming tools and still produces in Berlin, Marienfelde, Lengeder Str. 29-35.
The catalog of the German National Library records under its data record (GND 2050976-5 ) that the company ILIX-Präzisionswerkzeuge-GmbH Kriftel, in part, continues the business activities of the former company Günther and Kleinmond (Frankfurt, Main). The company ILIX-Präzisionswerkzeuge-GmbH explicitly refers on its current homepage to its historical descent from the Frankfurt-based Günther and Kleinmond, who had started with the production of tools from the new material high-speed steel and launched the brand name ILIX in 1918, or have it protected.
literature
- Frankfurt Precision Tools Factory Günther & Kleinmond GmbH (catalog edition 529). Frankfurt 1949/50
Web links
- Robert Stock (1858–1912), a. a. Entrepreneur and founder of the Berlin Precision Tool Factory Robert Stock GmbH.
- Robert Stock AG Berlin, one of the leading manufacturers of drills, milling and reaming tools and buyer of the Frankfurt Precision Tool Factory Günther & Kleinmond GmbH Fritz Werner Machine Tools Berlin, history of this machine factory
Individual evidence
- ^ Ludwig Günther, Frankfurt-Nordend, Sandweg 104, company founder
- ^ Reichs address book (1900) 1685 (MAN steam engine list)
- ^ Furniture manufacturer Heinrich Langenbach in the Jewish furniture manufacturer Heinrich Langenbach. ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) Frankfurt address book 1935
- ↑ Aryanized takeover of the Frankfurt precision tool factory Günther & Kleinmond, Frankfurt-Rödelheim, Eschborner Landstrasse 112 by R. Stock & Co. Spiralbohrer-, Werkzeug- und Maschinenfabrik AG, Berlin (PDF)
- ^ Frankfurt-Rödelheim, camp for foreign workers. Topography of National Socialism in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ German National Library
- ↑ ILIX Precision Tools GmbH Kriftel, formerly Frankfurter Precision Tool Factory Günther & Kleinmond
