Brothers Brehmer
| Brothers Brehmer VEB Brehmer VEB folding and stitching machine factory Leipzig (from 1951) |
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|---|---|
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| founding | 1879 |
| Seat | Leipzig - Plagwitz , Germany |
| management |
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| Number of employees | around 1,500 (1950s) |
| Branch | Wire stitching machines |
The company Gebrüder Brehmer was founded in 1879 in the Leipzig district of Plagwitz by Hugo Brehmer, who returned from America . In the USA he had worked with his brother August Brehmer on the development of the wire stitching machine and introduced it to the German market.
Company history
During the decades of the German Empire , the company quickly developed into a large ( poly ) graphic engineering company. The process of the wire stitching machine and later the thread book stitching machine revolutionized book production, similar to the introduction of the high-speed press in the printing sector.
After the company's founder died in 1891, his employee Friedrich Rehwoldt (1846–1924) took over the management.
Ludolf Colditz (jun.) (1883–1952) led the company in the third generation of entrepreneurs. He had been working for Gebr. Brehmer since 1909, had joined in 1914 as a liable co-owner, had married Rehwoldt's daughter Ella and finally took over the management of his father-in-law as sole partner in 1920.
After the slump in World War I, inflation and the global economic crisis , the company achieved a preliminary maximum expansion in the years of National Socialism with over 2,000 employees.
After the end of the Second World War, Brehmer was expropriated and nationalized in 1946/1948 . The Colditz family had to leave the factory in 1948. As VEB Brehmer (from 1951: VEB Falz- und Heftmaschinenwerk Leipzig) the company became part of the GDR state industry. As part of VVB Polygraph, the company was able to continue its economic success after 1945. In the 1950s it employed around 1,500 workers and employees.
In 1959/1960 the company was merged with VEB Buchbindereimaschinenwerk Leipzig (formerly Maschinenfabrik Karl Krause ) to form the new large company VEB Leipziger Buchbindereimaschinenwerke (LBW), which in 1970 became the parent company of the Polygraph "Werner Lamberz" Leipzig combine .
After the end of the GDR and as a result of privatizations, the company was initially transferred to McCain Manufacturing Corp. in 1991 . based in Hamburg and Chicago before it was taken over by the Ludwigsburg folding machine manufacturer Stahl GmbH & Co. KG . Since 1999, the Stahl Group has been part of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG , whose Leipzig plant Brehmer formed for a few years. In 2015 the Leipzig Heideldruck location was finally closed.
literature
- Eberhardt Kettlitz: 125 years of wire stitching machines from Leipzig. Leipzig 2004.
- Armin Müller: Institutional breaks and personal bridges. Plant manager in state-owned companies in the GDR in the Ulbricht era. Cologne, Weimar 2006. (from 1945 to 1970)
