Hanoverian Portland cement factory

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The Hannoversche Portland-Cementfabrik (HPC) or Hannoversche Portland-Zementfabrik in Hanover was a stock corporation founded in the 19th century for the production mainly of Portland cement in Misburg-Nord .

history

Share of more than 1,000 marks in Hanover's Portland-Cementfabrik AG on June 19, 1920

The Hanoverian Portland cement factory was founded in 1878 by the two lime distillery owners Friedrich Kuhlemann and Albert Meyerstein as an open trading company with the participation of Kuhlemann's brother-in-law Ferdinand Wallbrecht and the specialist Hermann Manske, who was lured away from the Portland cement factory in Stettin in the same year for technical management . Manske founded his own company in 1881 after the first few years.

Around 1910: The " Portland-Cementindustrie Hannover-Misburg " with the trademarks of the various manufacturers at the time ; including the HPC with the "brand horse"
Illustrierte Zeitung no. 3538 , special title Hannover and border areas , of 20 April 1911 with the artist's signature graphic artist Änne Koken

In 1884 the cement factory was converted into a stock corporation, in the same year Max Kuhlemann joined the company as a member of the board .

disused marl quarry of the HPC

Produced Portland cement , Zementkalk and Kalidünge - marl under the brand name "brand horse". The white hydraulic binding agent " Markrolithweiß ", which was also produced , was sold under the house brand "Niedersächsischer Haus giebel ".

While the output of Hannoversche Portland-Cement was only around 5,000 t in the first few years,  technical improvements made it possible to increase production to around 170,000 t by 1900.

After Max Kuhlemann took a leading stake in the Misburger Hafengesellschaft founded in 1912 , which he then also managed as managing director, HPC was able to open its own factory port on the Misburg branch canal, a branch of the Mittelland Canal , in 1927 . Before that, Kuhlemann's son Christian Kuhlemann had joined the Hanoverian Portland cement factory as commercial director in 1926 , who later also became an executive member of the board.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis and by the year of the beginning of World War II, the production of HPC eventually rose in 1939 to just over 320,000 tonnes. During the soon following air strikes against Hannover destroyed bombs but the work almost entirely.

After approval by the British military authorities , a protracted reconstruction began for the Hanoverian Portland cement factory: in 1947 the military rulers only issued a permit for the fertilizer production, which had only been incidental until the war.

Only after the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany and the beginning of the economic boom could cement production be resumed in the middle of 1951. In 1961 Christian Kuhlemann moved to the position of chairman of the supervisory board . Even after his death in 1964, the production of the HPC increased continuously until 1972 to around 500,000 t.

When the construction industry began to slow down in the mid-1970s, sales and, as a result, production of HPC also collapsed . However, internal support measures were not able to compensate for the decline in production: in 1986 the company's own production was stopped and the Hanoverian Portland cement factory closed.

Literature (selection)

Archival material

Archives from the company's history can be found, for example

See also

Remarks

  1. ↑ In contrast to this, the - older - Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon (HBL) still mentions the year of entry “1925”, compare Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Kuhlemann, Christian. In: HBL , p. 217f .; online through google books

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i j k Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Hannoversche Portland-Zementfabrik In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 261f.
  2. NN : Kommerzienrat Max Kuhlemann. In: Hannoversche Köpfe aus Verwaltung, Wirtschaft, Kunst und Literatur , Vol. 1, Verlag H. Osterwald, Hanover 1929. ( August Heitmüller drew the heads. Wilhelm Metzig designed the entire equipment of the work. The texts have no author names in the book no page numbers or a table of contents are given)
  3. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Misburg harbor. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 445
  4. ^ A b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Kuhlemann, Christian. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 376; online through google books
  5. Frank Frischmuth (responsible): Hannoversche Portland-Zementfabrik AG, Misburg on the website of the German Digital Library

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '4.8 "  N , 9 ° 52' 9.1"  E