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Heinrich Franck Sons is a former manufacturer of coffee substitutes . The company goes back to Johann Heinrich Franck (1792–1876).
history
Johann Heinrich Franck completed an apprenticeship as a merchant and confectioner . In the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon, he came to France. There he learned that normal coffee beans can be mixed with chicory and gained an insight into the French coffee additives industry. This had developed during the so-called continental blockade, when the import of English colonial goods such as coffee and cane sugar was prohibited.
After Franck returned from France, he settled in Vaihingen an der Enz in 1822 as a grocer and confectioner and began to experiment with the production of chicory coffee. Six years later he started the factory production of coffee additives. As the demand for Franck's products increased, he expanded. Shortly before his death in 1876, Franck ordered the relocation of the factory from Vaihingen, where the now 64 buildings were no longer sufficient for operation, to Ludwigsburg .
In Ludwigsburg, new buildings were built in 1868 and 1869; in the course of time also works abroad. For the Austro-Hungarian market , a branch was opened in Linz in 1879 , which became independent under Carl Franck and over time developed into the largest coffee factory of the Habsburg monarchy. Further branches were in 1883 in the Bohemian Komotau , in Milan and in Basel , 1899 in Raschau in Bohemia, 1890 in Bucharest , 1892 in Zagreb , 1895 in Flushing in New York , 1897 in the Bohemian Pardubitz , 1899 in the bilogorical Bjelovar , 1909 in the Hungarian Nagykanizsa etc. The construction of the factory in Halle an der Saale was particularly important, as it made the transport of the chicory roots from the Magdeburg Börde to Ludwigsburg superfluous. The factory, built in Neuss am Rhein in 1913 , produced grain coffee that was marketed as "Kornfranck". From 1871 to 1914 the company traded under the name Heinrich Franck Söhne OHG , after which it was converted into a GmbH.
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When the First World War broke out , the company founded by Franck was the largest of its kind in the world. War losses were soon made up for; In the period after the First World War, the company's products were marketed under names such as “Mühlenfranck” and “Kornfranck”. In 1934, in addition to the actual factories for producing the coffee additive, the company used numerous auxiliary businesses, including a malt house , a printing shop for packaging, a box- making shop, a metalworking shop, a steam power plant and a gas plant. In 1935 the trademarks were transferred from the registries in Ludwigsburg and Linz to Berlin "for security reasons" ; In 1944 they merged with Kathreiner to form Franck und Kathreiner GmbH, Vienna . From 1943 to 1947 numerous files and advertising material were returned to Ludwigsburg.
In the post-war period, the Austrian parts of the company in Linz and Vienna became independent, and in 1954 the Caro coffee brand was introduced as a coffee substitute. In 1964, Thomy approached the delicatessen business and the company name was changed to Unifranck Lebensmittelwerke GmbH, after taking over the greater part of INGA, Interfranck Holding AG was founded in Zurich , and in 1970 another merger resulted in Ursina-Franck AG, whose company assets were in 1971 was taken over by Nestlé . In 1978 there was a merger with Allgäuer Alpenmilch AG. The last factory that continued the coffee tradition was located in Ludwigsburg. In 1987 the former company Johann Heinrich Francks became part of Nestlé Deutschland AG in Frankfurt am Main . Nestlé closed the Ludwigsburg plant at the end of 2018.
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Adolf Heller, The economic conditions , in: Oscar Paret , Ludwigsburg and the land around the Asperg. A home book for the district of Ludwigsburg , Ludwigsburg 1934, p. 225 ff., Here p. 257
- ^ Heinrich Frank Söhne regiowiki.at, RegiowikiAT, accessed on September 9, 2016.
- ↑ a b Baden-Württemberg State Archives
- ^ Adolf Heller, The economic conditions , in: Oscar Paret, Ludwigsburg and the land around the Asperg. A home book for the district of Ludwigsburg , Ludwigsburg 1934, p. 225 ff., Here p. 257–260
- ↑ Nestlé is shedding 380 jobs stuttgarter-zeitung.de, December 17, 2018.