Georgshütte (Boffzen)

Georgshütte Becker
legal form
founding	1872
resolution	April 25, 1989
Reason for dissolution	insolvency
Seat	Boffzen, Germany
Branch	Glass industry

The Georg hut was a glassworks in Holzminden in Lower Saxony , the 1872 as hollow - and pressed glass factory was founded in 1989 and Dampfschleiferei stopped operating.

founding

Street side of the Georgshütte (2017)

Georgshütte site, gate of the former industrial connection of the connection between Holzminden and Scherfede , 2017

The founder of Georgshütte was Ludwig Wilhelm Becker, a member of the Becker family of glassmakers . Members of the family had been active in glass production since the beginning of the 15th century and are mentioned in the Spessart Letter as the oldest glassmaker's order in 1406. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the name can be traced to glassmakers in the area of the Kaufunger Forest . The father of Louis William Becker, Georg Norbert Becker, in 1850 established the glassworks Becker in Neuhaus im Solling as panel glass factory and 1,856 above Boffzen in Solling the glassworks Rottmünde as hollow glass works .

Georgshütte, founded in 1872 under the name Becker & Co., had an industrial connection to the Holzminden – Scherfede connection from 1876 , which was particularly important for the supply of coal.

In 1907 the Beckersche Glasfabrik in Georgshütte is mentioned as follows:

"Becker & Co., G., glass factory in Georgshütte near Fürstenberg (Weser) ...
Owner Aug. Becker in Georgshütte
Make: hollow, pressed and grinding glass.
Specialty: press racks, siphons. Awarded a medal in Braunschweig in 1877.
1 glass furnace, 12 ports with cap. Oven system: half gas. Hard coals. Steam engine. Grinding shop with 12 workshops. 75 workers. (Founded in 1855). "

In old mentions, Georgshütte is given as the company headquarters, which refers to the company premises and some residential buildings, which at that time were still away from the village of Boffzen.

business

The Georgshütte at the beginning of the 20th century

Towards the end of the First World War , the Georgshütte and the Boffzen-based Noelle + von Campe glassworks were forced to merge their production in 1917 due to a lack of coal. At the beginning of the 1920s, both glassworks fell into a crisis due to the inflation from 1923, and also at the end of the 1920s due to the global economic crisis .

In 1925 the range had changed slightly and the glass factory already had a telephone connection. August Becker was still the owner, and business and preserving jars were added. The factory now had a glass furnace with eight open ports ( Siemens-Martin system ) that was fired with lignite, a grinding shop with 12 and an engraving shop with two workshops, as well as a 20 HP steam engine. A workforce of 80 is given. A pen for old glassmakers was also newly created .

Mason jars produced the George hut from 1906. They were made primarily in the period from the 1931st In the early 1940s, monthly production was 120,000 pieces. Another production focus was beer glasses .

From 1933, the business situation improved due to the increased economy. The National Socialists asked the company to stop blowing mouths and only produce them by machine. One of the glassblowers was August Hansmann, from whom he received a 1.3 kg 2-liter beer mug.

In the 1940s the Georgshütte had around 250 employees. During the Second World War there were female forced laborers in the Georgshütte , between 30 and 60 people in Boffzen and also at the Noelle + von Campe glassworks. They lived in a barrack camp in the Rottmündal valley . In the post-war period , too , the focus of production was on the manufacture of mason and beer glasses.

After the bankruptcy of Georgshütte on April 25, 1989, operations were stopped, causing 57 employees to lose their jobs. Since then, the site has been an industrial wasteland.

The history of the Georgshütte is presented in the Boffzen Glass Museum . The museum is located in the factory owners' villa of the Becker family of glassmakers, which was built in 1905 and is located on a piece of land north of the factory premises.

literature

Björn Lohnert: The glassworks. In: Boffzen community (ed.): Chronicle of the Boffzen community. [856-2006; 1150 years]. Beverungen 2006, OCLC 552036988 , p. 197 ff.