Greiling cigarette factory

Former Greiling cigarette factory in Dresden, Zwickauer Strasse

A company known as Richard Greiling Aktiengesellschaft (designation 1924–1940), Richard Greiling limited partnership (1940– after 1946) or in the SBZ / GDR later VEB Zigarettenfabrik Greiling (after 1946–1958), as a German cigarette , became synonymous with cigarette factory Greiling n manufacturer, as well as their Dresden production building (used for cigarette production 1927-1970, as a building occasionally referred to as the former Greiling cigarette factory , and demolished in 1998) in Dresden's southern suburb .

company

The Greiling company was founded in Dresden in 1919 by Richard Greiling . It acquired other cigarette factories, such as the Juwel Dresden cigarette factory and the Bonitas AG cigarette factory , and was converted into Richard Greiling Aktiengesellschaft in 1924 . With around 4,000 employees, Greiling was one of the largest cigarette manufacturers in Dresden. In 1934 the company produced the world's first filter cigarette. In 1937/38 the company benefited from the incorporation of the Dresden cigarette industry, Yramos, which was sold in the context of a forced Aryanization by Julius and Hermann Lewin (in 1932, the fifth largest) in the cigarette industry .

In 1940 the company was renamed as a limited partnership, the largest participant of which was the Reemtsma company with 40% . 90% of the building was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden , but it could only be restored poorly by 1947.

On the basis of the referendum of 1946, 60% of the KG was initially expropriated in the SBZ, later it was converted into a state-owned company as VEB Zigarettenfabrik Greiling . In 1958 he became part of the VEB Dresdner Zigarettenfabriken. In 1970 cigarette production was stopped in this factory, the building only served as an import warehouse.

In western Germany, production started again under the name Greiling Zigarettenfabrik KG . In 1949 a plant was built in Lensahn in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein . Cigarettes were manufactured here until 1960.

building

After the First World War, the company acquired an area between Zwickauer, Nossener and Eisenstuckstraße and had a modern office and administration building built here in the New Building style in 1926/27 . The building itself also accommodated the production and storage rooms. There was also an in-house print shop and cardboard box production facility.

The architect Max Krautschick designed five-storey buildings with two staggered floors as reinforced concrete - skeleton construction with walled pillars and walled parapets. The large windows were by rungs divided fragmented and were on a level with the outer walls. A horizontal structure was created by cornices that rested on the window parapets. Up until 1945 there was a twelve-storey tower on the main facade facing Zwickauer Strasse, which dominated the urban and spatial situation on the old Nossener Bridge (the current one has only been bridging Zwickauer Strasse since the 1960s): it “marks (e) the entrance to Plauen district ”, but was not completely rebuilt after 1945.

The demolition of the building in 1998 against the will of the preservation authorities should take place in favor of a new office building, which however - as of 2018 - has not been built; the site has been a fallow land since then.

Others

Collecting pictures of the players from Viktoria Forst in the 1931/32 season

The football collection pictures that were sold throughout Germany became known.

literature

• Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra, Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 , No. 114, p. 78, on the building.

Web links

Commons : Greiling Cigarettes  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Greiling Zigaretten AG Entry under deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
• Greiling Zigaretten AG For the history on cigabox.de
• Greiling building on dresdner-stadtteile.de
• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Greiling cigarette factory in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Taken from: cigabox.de , accessed on June 4, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Lupfer et al., No. 114 (former cigarette factory Greiling, Nossener Brücke, Zwickauer-, Glauchauerstraße, 1927, M. Krautschick)

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '17.4 "  N , 13 ° 42' 54.4"  E