G. Siegle & Co.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 14.9 "  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 43.8"  E

Siegles paint factory around 1865

The G. Siegle & Co. GmbH was a major paint manufacturer in the corner Rotebühl- / Hasenberg- and August Street in the Baden-Wuerttemberg state capital Stuttgart .

history

The company was founded in Munich in 1845 by Heinrich Siegle . In 1848 Siegle relocated the company headquarters to Stuttgart, where he had acquired a piece of land that was directly adjacent to the company premises of the branch competitor " Knosp'sche Fabrik ". Today's Knospstrasse, which spatially separated the two companies, is a reminder of this. Over the years the scope of business has grown steadily. For this purpose, additional properties were purchased, in particular those that already had a commercial infrastructure and could therefore continue to be used; the company required a lot of space and was therefore in line with the trend towards large-scale industrial companies. In particular, it was the paper and textile industries that pushed the demand for chemical products. There was no longer a demand for processes that laboriously extracted from plant or animal raw materials, but for processes that were able to put on the market products synthesized from by-products of coal tar manufacture.

In 1853 the first steam engine of the G. Kuhn company from Stuttgart-Berg was delivered. In 1854 the first steam boiler from the same company was installed. In 1863 the son Gustav Siegle took over the management of the company. In 1873, Siegle merged with the Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik and the company of the neighboring chemical entrepreneur Rudolf Knosp for the purpose of jointly producing mineral and aniline colors. The company network dissolved again in 1889. In Feuerbach (which was not incorporated into Stuttgart until 1933) he founded under the name “Open Society G. Siegle u. Co. “opened a new paint factory. It specialized in the production of mineral and lacquer paints and was economically very successful. From 1898 this company was run as a GmbH .

Gustav Siegle died in 1905 after a number of strokes. The Gustav-Siegle-Haus was completed in 1912 . In 1917 the company "Pabst & Lambrecht" from Nuremberg took over Siegle. In 1920 she also acquired a plant in Besigheim.

Market environment in Stuttgart

In addition to chocolate manufacturers such as Eszet , Moser-Roth and Waldbaur, chemical plants were among the first significant manufacturing companies in Stuttgart. The "Jobst'sche quinine production" was founded at the beginning of the 19th century and in 1826 it was able to refer to an international reputation for quinine production. At the same time, chemical plants were the first to have to leave Stuttgart due to modified legal provisions, as they could not be reconciled with the changing regional character of the Stuttgart-Mitte location .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Due to the current course of Hasenbergstrasse (changed course of the road since the 1970s), the former site of the Siegle factory was cut through and buildings had to be demolished in favor of the building lines (Gabriele Kreuzberger, p. 77)
  2. ↑ Industrie / BASF / SIEGLE, Farbige Bombe - July 13, 1970 Retrieved August 30, 2014
  3. ↑ G. Siegle, & Co., GmbH, paint factories
  4. ↑ Gabriele Kreuzberger, p. 73 (see LIT.)

literature

  • Gabriele Kreuzberger: Factory buildings in Stuttgart, their development from the middle of the 19th century to the First World War , 400 pages, Klett-Cotta 1993, ISBN 3-608-91629-6