H. Köser

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H. Köser

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legal form GmbH
founding 1862
Seat At the Packhalle IX 18, 27572 Bremerhaven, Germany
management Philippe Köser, Kai Köser
Branch Wholesale of food and beverages; Delicatessen; Mail order with delicacies
Website www.koeser.com

The H. Köser GmbH is a mail order for delicacies based in Bremerhaven . They are supplied to end users and commercial customers.

The company, which was originally founded in England and is now north German, has long had its headquarters in Hamburg.

story

founding

Certificate issued by Johann Hinrich Köser
Letterhead from the company H. Köser with Altona fish auction hall

In 1862 Johann Hinrich Köser founded his trading business H. Koser Fruit and Potato Merchant and Commission Agent in Hull ( Kingston upon Hull ), England with branches in Grimsby and Liverpool . The "H" in the company name means "Henry" as a translation of his middle name.

In 1867 the company moved its headquarters to Hamburg St. Pauli . H. Köser now operated the import and export of food as well as a forwarding agency in Hafenstrasse . After apples from the Altes Land , fruit exports soon expanded to include bilberries and plums. After a while, H. Köser also exported yeast. The goods destined for England were transported on a newly established steamship line between Hamburg, Hull and Grimsby .

Fish auctions and Hamburg shipping companies

Köser was involved in the emerging fish auction trade in Hamburg early on. In 1885 Johann Hinrich Köser applied to the Hamburg Senate to be sworn in as a fish auctioneer . This took place on November 20, 1886.

In 1886 Köser had the 25 m long pilot transfer steamer "Neuwerk" converted into a fish steamer at the Janssen & Schmilinsky shipyard . The converted ship ran out as the “Solea” and returned from its first voyage on November 19, 1886 with 4,000 pounds of fish. On November 20, 1886, the first German fish auction was held under the direction of Köser in the St. Pauli market hall. H. Köser initially took care of shipping business on his own account. The ship owners were the "Platessa", "Gadus" and "Rhombus" fish steamers built by Ratje Köser for fishing. The new ships were 31 m long.

Gustav Platzmann was sworn in in early 1887 and held his first auction on March 14, 1887 in the same hall as Köser. The practice of sharing the use of a building for this should be maintained for decades. Other auctioneers followed. While Platzmann auctioned the catches of the Finkenwerder fishermen in particular, Köser also sold the goods caught with his own steamboats or those he operated for his Hamburg auction.

In Altona, a Prussian suburb down the Elbe from Hamburg, people watched with concern the new form of sale, which meant a considerable acceleration in sales for the fishermen. They increasingly migrated to Hamburg with their catches from the Altona fish market. The city of Altona therefore decided to follow Hamburg's model of holding auctions.

The first fish auction in Altona took place on June 22, 1887 in Altona by the Finkenwerder innkeeper Johann Cohrs, the day before sworn auctioneer.

Altona from 1908

After the sudden death of Johann Cohrs, the magistrate decided against his widow's continuation of the business. H. Köser received the offer to take on this task.

In 1908 the company moved to Altona with four fish steamers . From then on, the company's auctions took place here. The high demand later led to the expansion of the fishing fleet, which took place with financial participation from companies and private individuals.

The sons Walter and Arthur shared the business activities as co-owners and also founded a fresh herring import company in 1908. As Arthur Köser & Co. it had mainly Scandinavian and English connections. The father passed the auction business on to his son Walter, while Arthur continued to run the fish trading company. The fruit trade with branches in England, which the third son Harry had run, had been closed for economic reasons.

Before the First World War, 80% of all German fresh herring catches went through the auction in Altona, which was operated by Walter Köser. Up to 20 fish steamers were cleared every night. The auction of 4 million pounds of herring was carried out between 7 and 9 a.m. Almost 50,000 auction boxes were used annually for deletion, auctioning and removal.

Köser in the time of National Socialism

Between the world wars, sales at the fish markets on the Elbe declined in favor of the locations that had grown in Cuxhaven and Wesermünde . As a result of the Greater Hamburg Act , the auctions of Hamburg St-Pauli and Altona merged. As a result, H. Köser founded the company Köser, Platzmann & Co. together with the Hamburg auctioneer Gustav Platzmann in 1934. With the nationalization of the fish auction business after the Second World War , the cooperation was ended.

For the fishing industry , which was integrated into the National Socialist Food and the Four-Year Plan , there were changes due to legal regulations. The German Reich government ordered the management of foreign currency in order to limit the consumption of imported foreign products and thus support the Reichsmark . Long-term contracts could only be kept to a limited extent because they were dependent on the outcome of the negotiations between the representatives of the fishing industry and the authorities in Berlin . These had also introduced regulations that delayed well-established processes. Herring was only allowed to be traded in seven size classes at prices set by the government. At the beginning of the Second World War, the fish supply completely stalled. This changed with the occupation of Norway and Denmark . Köser benefited from this by commissioning the company to purchase from Norwegian catches in accordance with contracts concluded at the beginning of 1939 and to supply them to the Reich for consumption. The Nazi Reich government also transferred power over the fish buying community to the Hamburg company, which marketed all Scandinavian catches. Heinz Köser, a grandson of the company founder, had been an authorized signatory in the family business since 1934 and was appointed representative for purchasing in occupied Norway.

There were difficulties in bringing the fish out of the countries occupied by the Nazis. The available cargo space remained scarce because of the fish steamers requisitioned for the German Navy . H. Köser, in cooperation with the company Johs. Thode special ships equipped with cooling devices underway. These units, which were equipped with modern cooling technology at the time and had a load capacity of 530 t, then operated between the ports in Scandinavian countries and Hamburg. One of them was the MS Tatkraft .

MS Tatkraft, one of the first reefer ships from H. Köser

In 1943 the company's offices in the Altona fishing port were badly hit in an air raid . In 1945, the British military administration in Hamburg subjected the company to a check for black market trading , but stopped this again after the Hamburg administration took over economic control. The inclusion of Thuringia , Saxony and Mecklenburg in the SBZ led to a drop in sales for the company. In 1947 the Hamburg Senate nationalized the fish auction as one of its first acts. This was also in response to the post-war post-war food shortage effects - food shouldn't be speculated on.

Köser after 1945

The resumption of the pre-war connections with the Scandinavian countries with the expansion of relations with Iceland and the Netherlands strengthened the company's import business again. H. Köser now campaigned for the quality improvement of the fish in their supply and processing chain and thus supported a goal of scientific work and research at Altona institutes.

In Norway, there was a strong trend towards deep-freezing for the storage and transport of fish. The import of frozen herring, fish and herring fillets, which now supplemented the traditional import of fresh herring, became the main purpose of H. Köser. In addition, the company imported fish roe , which was primarily processed into so-called German caviar . Added to this was the importation of herring herring, the salt fish business and the purchase of foreign semi-finished goods. An export business with a focus on Italy developed from salting German fish . In addition to importing and manufacturing, this also resulted in the export of goods overseas, especially to the USA .

According to commercial register entry HRB 2144 of December 6, 1968, H. Köser moved to Bremerhaven and developed into a delicatessen manufacturer with mail order business ( b-to-b and b-to-c ). In addition to the classic mail order catalog, the company has been one of the first German grocery retailers to have an online shop since April 1999 .

Together with various software houses , the company is continuously developing program optimizations for processes in food procurement, production and storage, as well as for batch tracking in the food mail order business. The aim is to continuously improve processes in line with changing legal framework conditions. This takes place against the background of a consistently high quality standard and reliable service with the guarantee of complete evidence from the origin of the raw materials through production to the end user .

In 2017, H. Köser was involved in the development of DIN SPEC 91360 with other e-commerce retailers from the food sector in a PAS ( Publicly Available Specification ) process. DIN helps to optimize temperature-controlled food shipping.

Products and mail order

H. Köser has been selling its products via traditional catalog mail order business since 1969 and, as one of the first German grocery retailers, since April 1999 via its online shop . Today the company supplies other luxury food products in addition to fish, shellfish and caviar. The product range (as of 2020) also includes champagne, prosecco, meat, game, poultry as well as sauces and dips.

Group companies

  • H. Köser GmbH
  • Arthur Köser GmbH & Co. KG
  • Köser Service GmbH

literature

  • H. Teuteberg: Deep Sea Fishing, Fish Trade and Fish Conservation in German High Industrialization, 1885–1930. In: VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 95 (2), 2008, pp. 135–156. Retrieved 2020, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20742496
  • Käthe Molsen: H. Köser Fischxport-Fischimport-Fischversand 1862–1962 (Hamburger Wirtschaftschronik 1965 - Research and Reports from the Hanseatic Habitat . Volume 2, Issue 4. Ed .: Economic History Research Center in Hamburg)
  • Adelheid Biesecker, Stefan Kesting: Microeconomics: An introduction from a social-ecological perspective . Illustrated edition, Verlag Walter Gruyter, 2003, p. 317ff.
  • Ingo Heidbrink, Werner Beckmann, Matthias Keller: ... and today there is fish! 1903-2003 . 100 years of the fish industry and fish wholesaling in the spotlight. Hauschild Bremen, 2003, p. 16ff.
  • The fish. Messages about fishing, fishing industry, fish trade and general fish processing . Second volume, LENGERICH Hanns Dr. (Ed.), Verlag Der Fisch , Lübeck 1924, p. 426 ff.
  • From fishing and fish markets in Hamburg and Altona - history of the fish markets in Hamburg and Altona 1887 to 1937 , Fisheries Directorate Hamburg-Altona, United Fish Markets Altona and Hamburg GmbH (ed.), Alster Verlag Johs. Krögers Buchdruckerei, Blankenese 1937

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ Journal of the Association for Hamburg History, Volume 52, 1966, p. 120 [1]
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  5. ^ Nikolai Antoniadis: Flounder from Altona . Ed .: Fischmarkt Hamburg-Altona GmbH. 2009th edition. EBBE & FLUT Edition in cooperation with Junius Verlag GmbH, Hamburg, p. 26 .
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