Hamburg Mineral Oil Works Ernst Jung

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The sole proprietorship Hamburger Mineralöl-Werke Ernst Jung was a German mineral oil company based in Hamburg .

The company was founded in Hamburg in 1920 by the businessman Ernst Emil Jung and entered into the local commercial register on May 19, 1920 as sole trader. In the 1930s it expanded rapidly, including a. through the construction of large tank farms. In Wilhelmsburg the entrepreneur built oil refineries , in Stade he made the construction of a port railway possible and in the upstream Stadersand he had a tank farm built.

In 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War, the Wilhelmsburg plant had a tank capacity of around 25,000 m³, which was primarily used for the storage and refining of lubricating oils . In Plant II in Stadersand were fuel duties taken over. In the parent plant 1944, a command with about 100 prisoners of the outer bearing Dessauer bank (see warehouse G ) of the Neuengamme to remedy bomb damage and for the laying of pipelines in labor employed.

After the end of the Second World War, the war damage was quickly repaired and the construction of additional plants for the production of paraffins , Vaseline and special lubricating oils began. The expansion led to the creation of numerous new jobs. Most of the goods produced in Wilhelmsburg were exported. The import business with petrol and gas oil represented an important independent element of the West German mineral oil trade for several years.

In 1949 the company owned a tank farm with a capacity of 90,000 m³ in Stadersand on the Lower Elbe, with a siding and a loading bridge for overseas tankers. In 1955 the plant in Wilhelmsburg was expanded with a de-oiling system that was the first of its kind in the world in terms of technical equipment. The Hamburg-Pennsylvanian Oil Company m. b. H. and Europol Motorenöl-Gesellschaft m. b. H. were subsidiaries .

On November 28, 1977, the company of the childless founder who died in 1976 was deleted from the commercial register.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Commercial Register : Hamburg District Court , Az.HRA 23688.
  2. ↑ The founder Ernst Jung . ( Memento of the original of September 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Jung Foundation for Science and Research , accessed on September 2, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jung-stiftung.de
  3. ^ A b c Ernst Reinstorf : Hamburg Mineral Oil Works Ernst Jung . In: ders .: History of the Elbe island Wilhelmsburg: from the beginning to the present . Buchhaus Wilhelmsburg publishing house, Hamburg 1955, p. 346.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , p. 397.
  5. ^ A b Jürgen Albers: Ernst Jung company . In: ders .: Elaboration on the cultural and historical value of the Giekewers FRIEDA . ewer-frieda.de, Hamburg, July 2016, pp. 32–38, accessed on September 2, 2017 (PDF).
  6. ^ In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 13, 1976.
  7. ^ AM Stahmer: Oil City Hamburg . In: Die Zeit , No. 29/1949, July 21, 1949, accessed on September 2, 2017.
  8. ^ In: Hamburger Abendblatt , May 18, 1956, p. 12.