Hartwig & Vogel
Hartwig & Vogel ( Tell for short ) was a company that produced sweets such as chocolate , cocoa , jams and sweets in Dresden from 1870 to 1948 . The products were marketed under Tell-Chocolade Cacao based on Wilhelm Tell . The most famous product is the Tell apple (also known as the chocolate apple from 1960 to 1969). Other brands were Silva and Diana .
Company history until 1900
Hartwig & Vogel emerged from the Friedrich Hartwig sugar goods factory on Dresden's Rosenstrasse. The rise of the “cocoa, chocolate, confectionery, marzipan and waffle factories ” Hartwig & Vogel began in Rosenstrasse No. 32 in 1870 , when Heinrich Vogel (1844–1911) joined the confectionery factory F. Hartwig of his uncle Friedrich Johann Christoph Hartwig entered. As early as 1871, the company was processing cocoa and sugar for 300,000 marks and had 100 employees. In 1873 there were 150 employees and then in 1893 around 1200 employees in the Dresden and Bodenbach factories (since 1945 Děčín ).
Vending machines
In 1887 Hartwig & Vogel founded the stock corporation for automatic sales in Dresden. The vending machines had signs “Property of Hartwig & Vogel AG Automaten Dresden”.
Dismountable Tell objects
In 1928 Hartwig & Vogel had 21 dismountable Tell objects in their range. These were birds, bears, ladybugs, giant strawberries, mini pineapples, bottles based on the Odol model , cars and the apple.
- Trading cards
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Second World War
During the Second World War there was an import ban on cocoa in Germany. Confectionery factories had to produce for the war. Hartwig & Vogel manufactured fuses . During the bombing raids on Dresden in April 1945 , Hartwig & Vogel's factory premises were also badly damaged.
expropriation
On July 1, 1948, Hartwig & Vogel Aktiengesellschaft was expropriated on the orders of the Soviet military administration in Germany . At that time, 289 people were involved in chocolate production. There were properties in Rosenstrasse 32, Ammonstrasse 86 and Freiberger Strasse 25, 27 and 29.
East Germany
Hartwig and Vogel was assigned to the VVB confectionery industry as VEB Tell (then Tell plant) . Factory Tell the VVB confectionery industry in 1954 as a factory, Part I, the Dresden VEB confectionery factories "Florence on the Elbe" allocated. In 1980 the factory became the headquarters of VEB Kombinat Confectionery Delitzsch . After the fall of the Wall in 1991, the site at the intersection of Freiberger Strasse / Ammonstrasse was demolished by Elbflorenz Grundstücksgesellschaft ( taken over by real estate company Büll & Liedtke ) and the Dresden World Trade Center was built in 1993 .
West Germany
The Kant company merged in 1945 with the remaining "Hartwig & Vogel AG chocolate factory" from Dresden. Kant-Hartwig-Vogel AG was founded in Einbeck , but disappeared again in 1957.
Tell apple after 2008
In 2008, the Rübezahl company in Dettingen took over the Gubor brand and with it the Tell apple. The 18 pieces of chocolate (1928: 20 pieces; 1961: 12 pieces) are available in 2013 in milk chocolate and dark chocolate, as a lucky apple, as a love apple and as a winter apple, which in turn has an orange, gingerbread or hazelnut flavor. The trademark protection is valid until June 30, 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tell brand APPLE MOLDABLE CHOCOLATE APPLE WHOLE MILK; 1957 ( Memento of the original from March 28, 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.
- ↑ http://www.stadtwikidd.de/wiki/Heinrich_Vogel
- ^ Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden for the year 1869
- ↑ Jochen Mueller, Dresden
- ↑ Dr. Ferdinand Springmühl (ed.): General illustrated industry and art newspaper . No. 28 & 29 . Leipzig 1875, p. 347 .
- ↑ Christoph Sandler: Handbook of the efficiency of the entire industry in Germany, Austria, Alsace-Lorraine and Switzerland , 2nd volume, published by Herm. Wölfert´s Buchhandlung (1874), 2nd series, Kingdom of Saxony, p. 3
- ^ "Chocolate from vending machines" board in the exhibition "Sweets from Florence on the Elbe" , Dresden City Museum in December 2013
- ↑ a b c I'm shocked - St. Nicholas can be helped: in the chocolate city of Dresden . In: Sächsische Zeitung , 7./8. December 2013, magazine insert, page M3
- ↑ Main State Archive Dresden , call number 11540, no.278
- ↑ Main State Archives Dresden, call number 11548, No. 8
- ^ Uwe Hessel: On the industrial history of the city of Dresden from 1945 to 1990. 2005
- ^ Chocolate city Dresden: sweets from Florence on the Elbe. ISBN 978-3-943444-23-0 , pp. 107, 109.
