Hanoverian caoutchouc, guttapercha and telegraph works

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Postcards - form of the Hanoverian Caoutchouc, Guttapercha and Telegraph works from 1886 from " Linden vor Hannover " to confirm an order

The Hanoverian Caoutchouc-, Guttapercha- und Telegraphen-Werke in Linden near Hanover was a company founded in the 19th century for the production of mostly technical rubber goods , but especially cables for telegraphy , telephony and for conducting electricity . The location was the strength street on the Ihme . in what is now the Hanover district of Linden-Nord .

history

The company was founded on November 3, 1883 as a stock corporation . This meant that the rubber factory was also in direct local competition with the smaller Otto Köhsel rubber goods factory , which was also located on Starkestraße, but was founded in 1870 .

In 1884 Albert Gerlach (born December 6, 1858 in Barmen; † 1919) joined the Hanoverian Caoutchouc, Guttapercha and Telegraph factories initially as operations manager before he later became a member of the board . At times the company employed up to 650 workers .

In the factory building, which mainly consists of a mighty brick building, natural rubber and gutta-percha were processed as raw materials into products, as well as cables and numerous items for industry, nursing or household use, for example seals for machines, drive belts , bed linings, ice packs, atomizers for insect powder or bicycle tires.

In 1897 the Caoutchouc, Guttapercha and Telegraph factories were taken over by the Vereinigte Gummiwaaren-Fabriken Harburg-Wien Aktiengesellschaft. Production continued under the new owner for two decades until the Linden plant was shut down in 1917 during the First World War due to the almost impossible import of natural rubber.

The smaller rubber goods factory of the merchant Otto Köhsel with its sometimes up to 120 workers on starch street fared better. At the beginning of the Weimar Republic in 1919, the company was even able to buy all of the factory properties from its formerly neighboring competitor. The two plants were given the new name Mittelland Gummiwerke .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the HAZ of March 11, 2010 mentions the date "1884"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Gerda Valentin: In the former rubber factory in Linden, dolls were also made in the past. Today there is hardly a trace of the once impressive manufacture to be found. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . (HAZ) of March 11, 2010.
  2. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Starkestraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 233.
  3. ↑ Chemisches Centralblatt. Hamburg; Berlin: Voss, 1883, p. 752 (preview, books.google.de ).
  4. ^ Obituary , in: Journal for applied chemistry. Property and organ of the Association of German Chemists , Volume 32, Part 2, p. 48 (preview, books.google.de ).
  5. ^ The later Phoenix AG , compare Dieter Timm, Karl-Heinz Wallasch: 150 years of Phoenix. Hanover: ContiTech , [o. D., 2006] p. 13 ( phoenix-ag.com PDF).

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 29.1 ″  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 47.2 ″  E