Guggenbacher paper mill

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The Guggenbach paper mill was a paper mill in Guggenbach , a district of Übelbach in western Styria .

The factory was built in 1846 as a wooden loop and acquired by the manufacturer Leopold Sommer in 1852 and modernized in the following years. In the 1870s, Adolf Ruhmann took over the summer factory that had just become insolvent. In 1853 Ruhmann had founded a supplier for the paper mill on its gates.

At the beginning of the 20th century, as part of the construction of the Peggau – Übelbach local railway , the factory was given a tow lift and became the railway company's largest freight customer.

After the annexation of Austria in 1938 the owner family, u. a. Franz Ruhmann and Karl Ruhmann , in the course of the " Aryanization " , were forced to sell the entire Ruhmann company including this plant, far below the existing company value. After the end of the Second World War , the company was under state administration from 1945 to 1947 and from 1953 was called the "Guggenbacher Papierfabrik". The factory became known throughout Austria in 1951 through the Krauland scandal . In June 1972 the company was closed.

literature

  • Herbert Dachs (Hrsg.): History of the Austrian federal states since 1945. Volume 7: Alfred Ableitinger (Hrsg.): Steiermark. Overcoming the periphery (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Bibliothek, Salzburg. Vol. 6, 7). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2002, ISBN 3-205-99217-2 .

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