Hüni + Co

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Hüni GmbH + Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding August 1, 1859
Seat Friedrichshafen , Germany
management Peter Hüni
Alexa B. Hüni
Number of employees Between 21 and 50
sales Between 1 and 5 million euros
Branch Surface technology
Website www.hueni.de

The Hüni GmbH + Co. KG is a 1859 by Hans Heinrich Hüni in Friedrichshafen , founded tannery . The family company in the sixth generation has specialized in coatings with organic plastics in the course of its history and offers surface and corrosion protection in almost all areas of process engineering across Europe under the brand name Proco-Kunststoffbeschichten . It is Germany's oldest company for plastic coatings and the first and oldest industrial company in the city of Friedrichshafen.

history

1728–1859 prehistory

In 1728, Andreas Hüni took over the “tannery in the courtyard” in Horgen, Switzerland , which, as the Hüni tannery , was expanded into an industrial operation until the early 19th century. In addition to the tannery house built in 1785, several tannery buildings and a steam boiler house were built. Sole and strap leather, drive belts, as well as stuff, blank and upper leather in different colors were produced. The company still exists today as Hüni AG . One of the sons of this tanning family was Hans Heinrich Hüni, who in 1859 had developed his own process for rapid tanning . This made it possible to tan sole leather within 14 days. For earlier pit tanning with a tanning time of 12-18 months a shortening of a whole year. For this purpose, a second plant should be opened in Friedrichshafen.

Founded in 1859–1866

In 1859 Heinrich Hüni and his partner Heinrich Abegg from Horgen officially applied for a permit for a tannery with a steam boiler. Despite resistance from the Swabian tanners and the middle authorities, the city of Friedrichshafen endorsed the project. As a result, on August 1, 1859, they founded the leather factory Hüni & Cie. Friedrichshafen and built the oldest and, until 1914, with 100 employees, also the largest industrial company in the city of Friedrichshafen on an area of ​​around six hectares. The first leather sales in 1860 went to Munich , Berlin , Reichenberg , Prague and Stuttgart , and later to Greece and Turkey . The partner Abegg left the company in 1861 and went to Zurich .

1866–1914 German Empire

After Heinrich Hüni had called the husband of his younger daughter, Jacques Leuthold-Hüni, into the management of the company for a long time, but he seemed to have no heirs, he brought his nephew Eduard Hüni-Beder from Horgen to Friedrichshafen in 1866 as part of the succession plan . He received power of attorney and joined the company. On February 7, 1866, major parts of the factory, in particular the warehouse and the house, were destroyed in a fire. On the same day, King Karl von Württemberg expressed his condolences in a telegram . The company buildings were rebuilt and a new factory owner's villa was built in 1867. In 1871, 6,600 hides and 7,629 pelts were tanned, mainly for the domestic market. Two years later, Hüni & Cie. their products at the Vienna World Exhibition of 1873. In 1876 Eduard Hüni-Beder rose to the management. From then on, the company was run jointly by three family members.

Hüni estate 1889

In 1888, Stadtschultheiß Schmid and Eduard Hüni-Beder signed a contract to build a spring water supply for Friedrichshafen. Heinrich Hüni contributed 50,000 gold marks (today around 500,000 €) and financed more than a third of the construction costs. In return, the municipality of Friedrichshafen assumed the contract for eternity ...... to deliver a daily quantity of 300 cubic meters of water from the water pipe to the property of Hüni + Cie .

In 1888 Hans Heinrich Hüni and in 1895, posthumously, Jacques Leuthold-Hüni were made honorary citizens of the city of Friedrichshafen. The company founder Heinrich Hüni retired from the management in 1890 and died in 1894. Eduard Hüni-Beder also died in the same year. At that time, his 17-year-old son Eduard Hüni was still in training, which he was doing at tanning schools in Freiberg , Rostock and Sweden . Then he began to support the businessman Leuthold-Hüni in running the family business. In 1897 a large new factory was built to start producing Vacheleder . Eduard Hüni applied the experience he had gained in Sweden with modern barrel tanning and established the new product alongside the sole leather of the previous production process. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Hüni leather factory was the second largest employer in Friedrichshafen.

1914–1945 wartime

After Jacques Leuthold-Hüni's death in 1914, Eduard Hüni was the sole managing director. In 1917 he was a co-founder of the German Foreign Institute in Stuttgart .

From 1936, Hüni & Co manufactured leather equipment for the Wehrmacht and was included in the list of armaments companies with their own mobilization number. This made the company a designated target for British bombing raids from 1943 onwards.

After completing his training at the German tannery school near Freiberg in Saxony , Otto Hüni was the manager of a large leather factory in Lima , Peru . He was the first Hüni to take German citizenship . His father Eduard Hüni and his brother Heinz followed in 1938. At the beginning of the Second World War Otto returned to Germany and, like his brother Heinz, took part in the Eastern campaign. After the death of his brother in 1941, the artillery officer Otto Hüni was made indispensable and joined the company, which his father was in charge of as operator according to the diction at the time . After his death in 1943 Otto PW Hüni took over the management. Although the Friedrichshafen satellite camp was located nearby , Hüni & Co did not employ any forced laborers during the Nazi era . According to the company's own publications, the workforce at that time consisted of two foremen and 31 workers, including 5 Eastern workers with family ties. During the air raids on Friedrichshafen between 1943 and 1945, the company was completely destroyed.

1945–1986 change

On April 29, 1945, Otto PW Hüni, as Volkssturmführer, was involved in the unrestrained surrender of the city of Friedrichshafen to the French army , along with a few others, by opening a tank barrier in violation of the order . Denazification began in Friedrichshafen in 1946 . It can be assumed that he was classified as an unpolluted fellow traveler. After the end of the war, Otto PW Hüni led the reconstruction of the production facilities and set up a rubble recycling facility for the city of Friedrichshafen on the factory premises.

In addition to the leather factory, the Balluff & Springer apparatus and container factory had been located since 1915 . Aluminum tanks for the beverage industry were manufactured there. In the mid-1950s they had these problems: The wine that had been preserved with sulfur could no longer be stored in aluminum tanks because the aluminum gave off taste through the sulfur. In cooperation with the Swiss Dr. Walter Mäder Lack- und Farbenfabrik , Otto PW Hüni and his engineer Helmut Sessig found a solution in their leather laboratory in the form of a plastic coating that prevented the stored drinks from taking on an undesirable taste. This process is still the technical standard today and Hüni & Co. was the first to offer such coatings.

On August 1, 1959, the company celebrated its 100th anniversary. To mark the anniversary, Otto PW Hüni presented the new Protec division , for which a new production hall with two 50 m³ baking ovens was built. Initially, mainly local winegrowers and fruit producers were supplied. Other customers from completely different application areas followed. For example, the Ulm commercial vehicle manufacturer Magirus-Deutz , which had fire extinguishing tanks coated. With the start of the new business field, there was also a boom in the container market. Traditional wooden barrels have been replaced by the coated metal storage tanks.

In 1962, Hüni & Co. acquired a license from Züricher Elektro-Metall Kürsteiner & Co. to manufacture suspended metal ceilings and installed them in, among other places, the Munich TV tower , Bayerischer Rundfunk and Stuttgart Airport . The metal ceiling business was discontinued after a few years.

In 1965 Otto PW Hüni stopped leather production at Hüni & Co. Machines and systems were sold abroad and the employees were retrained in the new lines of business. In 1967 a company in Ulm experimented with coating ski poles. Otto PW Hüni carried out these experiments together with his son Jacques, who had a fatal accident that same year. His younger brother Peter joined the family business in 1976 after completing his law degree.

On November 22, 1975 Otto PW Hüni received the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg . He was president and co-founder of the International Bodenseemesse (IBO), Messe Friedrichshafen , founder and first president of the Zeppelin Museum , has been made an honorary senator for his services to the University of Konstanz and was founding president of the Marketing Club Bodensee.

1986 – today Hüni + Co coatings

After the death of his father Otto PW Hüni, Peter Hüni took over the management in 1986. In 2009 the 150th anniversary of the company was celebrated. The commemorative publication 150 years of Hüni + Co. was created for this occasion . A journey through time . A brief stake in Eposint AG in Pfyn was sold again in spring 2009. On January 1, 2016, Alexa B. Hüni, the daughter of the managing partner Peter Hüni and great-great-great-granddaughter of the company founder Heinrich Hüni, joined the company as a member of the management team responsible for quality and process management.

Production developed from the inner coating of containers in the food and beverage industry under the protected brand name Proco-Kunststoffbeschichten to surface and corrosion protection for almost all areas of process engineering and plant, apparatus and mechanical engineering. Hüni + Co is Germany's oldest company for highly resistant plastic coatings. The export share, especially Switzerland and Austria but also Malaysia, is around 40 percent.

Location

Since Hüni + Co. was founded in 1859, the company's headquarters have been at the same location in Friedrichshafen, not far from the city center, directly on Lake Constance. The Hüniwiese and Hünistraße are located close to the company premises. This was named in honor of the company and its owner family.

Historic Buildings

  • Former leather factory Hüni & Cie , Eckenerstraße 65 in Friedrichshafen. Built in 1859
  • Villa Hüni, Eckenerstraße in Friedrichshafen. Built in 1867 in the late classical style and one of the oldest entrepreneurial villas on Lake Constance.

Publications

  • The Hüni & Co Horgen tannery 1728-1928 . Festschrift. Self-published, Horgen 1928.
  • Peter Heidtmann: 125 years of Hüni & Co. Friedrichshafen . Self-published, Friedrichshafen 1984.
  • Ulrich Hüni, Martin Frei-Borchers: 150 years of Hüni + Co a journey through time . Festschrift. Self-published, Friedrichshafen 2009.

Web links

Commons : Hüni + Co  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hüni GmbH + Co. KG: Sales in 2015 ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - statista.com  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.statista.com
  2. ↑ a b c 150 years of Hüni: It all started with leather. In: Schwäbische Zeitung . July 30, 2009, accessed August 15, 2016 .
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  6. ^ Ueli Müller: Hans Heinrich Abegg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 11, 2001. Retrieved August 28, 2016 .
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  10. ↑ Construction of a leather factory near Friedrichshafen and acquisition of land. In: Estate of Dr. Ferdinand v. Steinbeis, President of the Central Office for Trade and Industry (1807–1893). Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, February 12, 1849, accessed on September 3, 2016 .
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  13. ↑ a b Former leather factory Hüni + Cie. (No longer available online.) In: Geschichtspfad Friedrichshafen . City of Friedrichshafen, archived from the original on August 28, 2016 ; accessed on August 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.friedrichshafen.de
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