Heinrich Klingenberg (company)
The Heinrich Klingenberg GmbH is a Hamburg moving companies . It was founded by Heinrich Klingenberg in Hamburg in 1877 and is one of the oldest furniture shipping companies in Northern Germany. The company has been part of A. von Drathen Holding UG since 2007. The managing partner is Alexander von Drathen.
history
Heinrich Klingenberg founded the moving company Heinrich Klingenberg in 1877 at Jakobikirchhof in downtown Hamburg. Another office was later opened in Rosenstrasse. Initially, Klingenberg began with a single horse-drawn cart and specialized in moving furniture with its haulage. In 1919 he bought the Englische Keksfabrik on Winterhuder Weg in the Uhlenhorst district of Hamburg , where the company was located until 1974. The Mundsburg Center with the three characteristic Mundsburg towers was then built there.
1931, the days of the Great Depression , Heinrich Schmidt took over the moving company from his uncle Carl, the last direct descendant of Heinrich Klingenberg's. After the purchase, Schmidt officially applied for the double name Schmidt-Klingenberg. Despite the poor economic situation, he acquired the first motor vehicles for transporting furniture and was able to put the company on a solid footing. During the Second World War , the furniture shipping company was completely destroyed by bombing in 1941 and 1943. In 1945, after his return from the war, Schmidt-Klingenberg rebuilt the company. In 1949, under his leadership, a branch was founded in the federal capital of Bonn . From here, a regular relocation service from Germany to Russia developed , which eventually resulted in a separate branch in Moscow . In 1959, the youngest son of Heinrich Schmidt-Klingenberg, Jörgen, joined his father's company. He concentrated on the operative business, his father Heinrich was responsible for the strategic direction. In 1962 he was one of the first German freight forwarders to introduce cardboard boxes and furniture lifts for simplified transport and was one of the first to use EDP .
In the early 1960s, the forwarding company became a partner of the AMÖ. In October 1966 Jörgen Schmidt-Klingenberg was a founding member of the moving partner network confern Möbeltransportbetriebe, in which 13 German furniture haulage companies joined forces. In addition, Klingenberg initiated other international collaborations that are still active today. In 1974 the company expanded to around 80 employees and moved to the Norderstedt location . From here, the forwarding company Heinrich Klingenberg KG operated as a full-service provider. In addition to the national or European private or company relocation and a relocation service , the company also offered craftsmen who could be commissioned to repair or manufacture furniture as part of the move. He took over the distribution traffic for large companies and ran his own truck workshop on the company premises.
At the beginning of the 1990s, the two daughters of Jörgen Schmidt-Klingenberg, Regina and Elena joined the company in the 5th generation and introduced quality management according to ISO9002. In 1991 the German Bundestag passed the so-called capital city resolution and with it the relocation of the parliament and government seat to Berlin . In the summer of 1999, the partner network confern, with a significant contribution from Heinrich Klingenberg, moved the Bundestag with 7,000 employees from Bonn to Berlin. In addition, several embassies moved to the capital at the same time.
In 2007 Alexander von Drathen took over the company name and expanded it in his group of companies to become an international furniture forwarding company in Northern Germany. The service provider carries out national and international private and company relocations. The company has been based in Hamburg, Behrkampsweg, and the furniture warehouse in Basedowstraße (Hamburg) since 2007.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Beseler, Mein Franzbrötchen , in: Claudia Thorn (Ed.), Mein Hamburg. Members of the Association for Hamburg History on their City , Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 9783735791177 , page 161.
- ^ Hamburg at that time, film recordings about and from Hamburg 1950 youtube.com
- ↑ Extraordinary Income . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1973 ( online ).
- ↑ Medium- sized companies receive order to move to the Bundestag . In: Die Welt , April 8, 1999
- ^ Government move in July: confern transports 32,000 cubic meters from Bonn to Berlin . news aktuell , June 2, 1999