Gruschwitz textile works
| Gruschwitz Textilwerke Aktiengesellschaft
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1816 |
| Seat | Leutkirch im Allgäu , Germany |
| management | Ditmar Schultschik, Klaus Gudat, Juan Serrano Mannsfeld |
| Number of employees | 120 |
| Branch | Textile |
| Website | www.gruschwitz.com |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Gruschwitz textile Werke AG is a company of the textile industry , based in Leutkirch im Allgäu in the Baden-Württemberg district Ravensburg in Germany .
Beginnings
The company was founded in 1816 in the Silesian town of Neusalz on the Oder by Johann David Gruschwitz , it emerged from an enterprise of the Moravian Brethren . In 1847 Gruschwitz left the company, which his sons Heinrich Gruschwitz (1816–1885) and Alexander Gruschwitz (1819–1888) successfully continued under the company J. D. Gruschwitz & Sons oHG . In 1906 the company was converted into Gruschwitz Textilwerke AG , in whose management the Doherr (Doherr-Gruschwitz) and von Treskow families were also represented as Gruschwitz descendants. During the First World War, the Gruschwitz works employed over 3,500 people.
At the end of the Second World War , all Gruschwitz plants were in the area of influence of the Red Army and were expropriated as a Soviet joint-stock company without compensation. The last 4,000 employees were unemployed. With the help of some old employees, Franz Alexander Doherr-Gruschwitz opened a small thread production facility in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, in initially rented rooms.
Recent history
In 2004, Gruschwitz moved from Neu-Ulm to Leutkirch im Allgäu after the company had previously taken over two other companies in the textile industry (Fritz Zorn GmbH & Co. KG, Leutkirch and Lozetex GmbH Tech-Twists, Winterlingen). In 2005 the operative business was completely outsourced to Gruschwitz GmbH Tech-Twists , also based in Leutkirch im Allgäu . This 100% subsidiary is a leader in Western Europe in the development and production of technical threads, threads and threads. Both simple natural fibers and modern man-made fibers are processed as raw materials. Today, more than 75% of Gruschwitz is owned by Philipp Daniel Merckle and employs around 150 people in Leutkirch im Allgäu.
Web links
- Company website
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Gruschwitz Textilwerke in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
- ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
- ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung : Lothar Späth is Chairman of the Supervisory Board from September 27, 2008, viewed on January 7, 2012.
Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 2 ″ N , 10 ° 1 ′ 12 ″ E