Georg von Giesche's heirs

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Georg von Giesches Erben (also Georg von Giesche'sche Erben or Giesches Erben for short ) was a Silesian mining company. It was founded by Georg von Giesche between 1704 and 1707 and, in 1946, the Polish government nationalized most of the Silesian property after the Second World War.

In 1704, von Giesche secured the sole right to mine and trade calamine in Silesia for 20 years through an imperial patent . With this he founded the successful and later important company in Germany.

The company founded the Gieschewald colony in 1907, which is now the Giszowiec district of the Polish city of Katowice .

history

Cover sheet of a share certificate of the mining company Georg von Giesche'sche Erben dated May 25, 1865

The heirs of Georg Giesche's estate bought the Morgenroth / Wieczorek mine in the area of ​​Janow in Upper Silesia in 1833 . In 1834, the "Wilhelmina" zinc smelter was put into operation by the mining company Georg von Giesche (non-ferrous metal smelter in Szopienice). The heirs of the fortune registered the "Bergwerksgesellschaft Georg von Giesche" in Breslau in 1860, which rose to become the largest mining and metallurgical company in Silesia by the beginning of the 20th century.

The company bought the Cleophas mine from Johanna von Schaffgotsch in 1880 and the Heinitzgrube from Otto Friedländer in 1883 . The mining company had owned a metal and zinc works in Magdeburg since 1919. "Giesche AG" was founded in Katowice in 1922 to manage the mines and smelters that have been in Poland since the division of Upper Silesia . All shares in Giesche AG in Katowice were transferred to the American company Silesian American Corp. in 1926 . (SACO), the managing director became the father of George HW Bush , Prescott Bush . In return, Giesche AG acquired shares in Belgische Bergbau und Industriegesellschaft AG . In 1941, Giesche AG tried to buy back the shares it had sold from the Americans. For this purpose she founded the (branch) company Gieschebetriebe GmbH in Katowice . The transaction did not take place because the American government did not allow the Giesche AG shares to be sold to the Germans under the “Trading with Enemy Act”. The assets of the mining company Georg von Giesches heirs were confiscated by the People's Republic of Poland in 1946 .

As part of the reconstruction in the Federal Republic of Germany based in Hamburg, a plant for LECA (Light Expanded Clay Aggregate), a process developed in Denmark for expandable clay at high temperatures, was built in Rahden in 1961 . This material is used in building construction for the production of lightweight concrete blocks, prefabricated elements, bulk concrete as well as screeds, roof insulation and external plaster.

In 1973 the company went bankrupt in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Eduard Schulte

The company became known internationally through its German general director Eduard Schulte . Schulte was one of the first to transmit reliable news about the approaching Holocaust to the World Jewish Congress .

literature

  • Heinrich Wendt: Constitutional and administrative history of the company . In: Robert Nischkowsky (Ed.): Georg von Giesche's heirs . 1704-1904. tape 1 . Breslau November 22, 1904 (commemorative publication for the Society's bicentenary November 22, 1904).
  • Konrad Wutke : The general history of the company up to the year 1851 . In: Robert Nischkowsky (Ed.): Georg von Giesche's heirs . 1704-1904. tape 2 . Breslau November 22, 1904 ( digital copy of the DJVU [accessed on September 21, 2013] commemorative publication for the company's bicentenary).
  • Friedrich Bernhardi: The development of the property of the society from the year 1851 onwards . In: Robert Nischkowsky (ed.): Georg von Giesche – s heirs . 1704-1904. tape 3 . Breslau November 22, 1904 ( digital copy of the DJVU [accessed on September 21, 2013] commemorative publication for the company's bicentenary).
  • Wilhelm Treue : Georg von Giesche's heirs . 1704-1964. Hamburg 1964, DNB  455107033 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ recherche.lha.sachsen-anhalt.de
  2. ↑ In addition to Georg von Giesche's heirs, also under the English name Giesche Mining (as it was owned by the Averell Harriman conglomerate at the time), and the Polish names Spadkobiercy Gieschego or Giesche Spolka Akcyjna .
  3. ↑ Walter Laqueur , Richard Breitman: The man who broke the silence . How the world found out about the Holocaust. Ullstein, Frankfurt / Main, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-550-06408-X , p. 36 ff . (American English: Breaking the silence . Translated by Erwin Duncker, in the first chapters in detail about the division in 1919 and the German-Polish-US-American corporate ties between 1925 and 1945).

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