Günther Wagner packaging works

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August 2015: Front view of Gate 2 of the Silgan Closures in Hansastraße at the north port of Hanover

The Günther Wagner - Packaging works or Günther Wagner packaging works were an out of the Herlitz in Hannover product derived manufacturing company in the field of packaging .

history

The Günther Wagner packaging works developed from the production of paint boxes made of sheet metal and sheet metal packaging, which began in the Günther Wagner / Pelikan factory in 1905. After the main factory was initially relocated to the new buildings built by the architect Otto Taaks on Podbielskistraße until 1906 , a separate production facility for tin packaging, mainly for tins and fish cans, was inaugurated in 1928 in Hansastraße at Hanover's northern port on the Mittelland Canal . According to the city of Hanover's address book from 1942, the company had its headquarters at Hansastraße 4 between Schulenburger Landstraße and the former port railway .

From 1939 the Günther Wagner packaging works were headed by the engineer Kurt Beindorff . On the one hand, Beindorff's technical talent led back to rational and future-oriented manufacturing processes that were trend-setting for the entire packaging industry. On the other hand, around 2,000 forced laborers from all over Europe, mostly from Poland and Russia - men and women - worked on the grounds of the Günther Wagner packaging works during the Second World War . The forced laborers, exploited under inhumane conditions in a so-called " labor education camp ", could be transferred to a concentration camp at any time - many perished under the circumstances. Newborns of the forced laborers were kept in a so-called “foreigners weekly barracks ”. Many of the children born there soon died of malnutrition and inadequate medical care.

1962 or 1968 acquired the stock company Schmalbach-Lubeca AG - in which Supervisory also Kurt Beindorff sat - the Hanover-packing plant.

After narrow book-Lubeca had acquired the American brand White Cap, the company then operated worldwide with its products, such as screw caps , PET bottles and tin - and aluminum - cans .

In 2003 the Günther Wagner packaging plants were deleted from the commercial register.

Hansastrasse memorial

Inauguration of the Hansastrasse memorial

On September 25, 2015, on the site of the former Günther Wagner packaging works, on the initiative of the Against Forgetting ./. Nazi forced labor as well as the company Silgan White Cap Deutschland GmbH - which is not the legal successor of the earlier packaging works - in the presence of Hanover's Lord Mayor Stefan Schostok , the district mayor Edeltraut Geschke and Jochen Hundt as a representative of White Cap Deutschland GmbH inaugurated the Hansastrasse memorial as a memorial against the Nazi atrocities and in memory of the victims at the time.

Fonts

  • Paul Kroha: Money boxes of all times , 64 pages private print with illustrations, Hanover-Hainholz: Günther Wagner packaging works, 1939

literature

  • Janet von Stillfried : Forced laborers and labor education camp of the GWV , in this: The Sachsenross under the swastika. Travel guide through Hanover and the surrounding area 1933-1945 , MatrixMedia-Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-932313-85-1 , pp. 228-231
  • Annemone Christians (ed.): Ink and tin. A pilot study on Fritz Beindorff (1860-1944) and the Günther Wagner Pelikan works under National Socialism , Hanover [2018]: Verlag Frauke Wandrey, Detmar Schäfer; Verlag Leuenhagen & Paris, ISBN 978-3-945497-06-7 and ISBN 3-945497-06-X ; contents

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Günther Wagner - packaging works. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 241 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Beindorff, (3) Kurt. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 47 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Günter Wagner - Pelikan works. The first century. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 240 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b evw: White Cap-Werk Hannover . In: new packaging . No. 8 , 2001, ISSN  0939-5326 , p. 23 ( online [PDF]).
  5. ↑ Compare the Hanover address book from 1942, Part II, p. 115
  6. ↑ a b o. V .: Against forgetting / inauguration of the Hansastraße memorial on the hannover.de website on September 25, 2015, last accessed on December 8, 2016
  7. ↑ Klara van Eyll, Renate Schwärzel (Ed.): German Economic Archives. Evidence of historical sources in companies, corporations under public law (chambers) and associations of the Federal Republic of Germany . Society for Company History, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-515-06211-4 , p. 235 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 20.5 ″  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 15 ″  E