GA Hanewacker
The GA Hanewacker was in on 3 October 1817 Nordhausen , Thuringia , founded chewing tobacco factory.
history
On October 3, 1817, Georg Andreas Hanewacker founded Germany's first chewing tobacco factory in Nordhausen, Thuringia . On that day, the first barrel of Kentucky tobacco in the company's history was purchased. Since there was no company in Germany that manufactured chewing tobacco at the time, Hanewacker imported the tobacco from Denmark . The initial phase of the company was made more difficult by the small states prevailing at the time , many customs borders and difficult and long transport routes. In addition, the company's job was to produce tobacco and sauces itself, rather than importing them.
August Hanewacker, the son of the company founder, was accepted into the company around 1838. Together they caused an expansion of the company, so that in 1858 it was possible to move into larger rooms and employ more employees.
Georg Andreas Hanewacker died in 1867, his son August in 1870, and the trading company was passed on to their seven children. August Hanewacker's sons (Georg Wilhelm) Adolph and (Heinrich) Hermann took over the company until Adolph suddenly died. Hermann brought his brothers (Adolph Friedrich) Rudolph and (Paul August) Hugo into the company.
Under the leadership of Hermann Hanewacker, the company continued to flourish. In 1928 another new building could be moved into, at that time a total of 2,000 employees were employed.
After the Second World War , in which large parts of Nordhausen fell victim to the bombs, the company's headquarters were relocated to Duisburg and now run by Ewald Hanewacker, Rudolf Hanewacker's son, in the fourth generation.
1975 followed, also because chewing tobacco continued to lose popularity, the end of the company. Hanewacker chewing tobacco is still sold and marketed under this name.
literature
- Arthur Propp: The industrial development of Nordhausen . Klinz, Halle 1935. Digitized
- Hans Silberborth , City Archives Nordhausen (ed.): History of the free imperial city of Nordhausen . Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1997, ISBN 3-89570-288-9
Web links
- Chewing tobacco in Nordhausen am Harz: GA Hanewacker - Kautabak Fabrik Nordhausen , private website
- GA Hanewacker, in the NordhausenWiki
- Biography: Hermann Hanewacker , in NordhausenWiki
Individual evidence
- ^ Chewing tobacco, Nordhausen, Tobacco Factory, GA Hanewacker ,. Retrieved February 13, 2018 .
- ^ Entry in the commercial register in Deutscher Reichs-Anzeiger and Königlich Prussischer Staats-Anzeiger , No. 10, May 13, 1871.
- ↑ Hanewacker. Retrieved on February 13, 2018 (German).