Hoffmann's starch factories
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | September 29, 1850 |
| resolution | 1990 |
| Seat | Bad Salzuflen , Germany |
| Branch | Chemical industry , food industry |
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The industrial company , which was founded in 1850 as a starch factory near Salzuflen and later called Hoffmann's starch factories , was the oldest of its kind in Bad Salzuflen in what is now North Rhine-Westphalia . Until the site was closed in 1990, mainly laundry starch and cornstarch were produced or refined in the chemical and food industries .
history
After living in Nuremberg , Braunschweig , Magdeburg , Rehme and Minden the merchant and entrepreneur moved Heinrich Salomon Hoffmann (* 1794 in Fuerth , † May 8, 1852 in Salzuflen) in 1850 after Salzuflen, where he in January on the Kuhkamp before Ostertor the with Construction of a potato starch factory had started. He opened the business on September 29, 1850 with a worker, Heinrich Bröker (1850–1899 in the company), an 8 HP steam engine and a Göpelpferd . After hiring seven more workers, switching to wheat starch and moving into a small house on the factory premises, Hoffmann died in 1852; he left behind his wife Friederike (* 1806, † 1882) and four children.
Under the management of the twenty-year-old Eduard Hoffmann (* September 12, 1832 - December 16, 1894), the fourth son of the deceased company founder, the starch factory developed into a large company within a few years, to which a cardboard and cardboard factory was affiliated. However, since there were not enough workers available in Salzuflen and the surrounding area, the company had to recruit most of the workers from outside. With the mostly Catholic workers who moved in large numbers from Eichsfeld to Salzuflen from 1863 onwards , the growth of the town of Salzuflen, which had hardly been noticeable until then, was noticeably accelerated.
On July 1, 1869, Eduard Hoffmann, his brother Leberecht Fürchtegott (* 1827; † 1895) and brother-in-law Pokrantz from Bremen joined forces to form a trading company called E. Hoffman & Co. The rice displaced after imports had become entirely duty free for starch, from 1 October 1870 potatoes, corn and wheat. The company called itself "rice starch factory". In 1876 the cat was registered as a trademark and in 1887 it was converted into a stock corporation with a share capital of five million gold marks .
“The company, which rose to become the largest European starch producer after 1880, employed around 1,200 people around the turn of the century, making it not only the most powerful commercial enterprise in Salzuflen, but also in Lippe . Hoffman's starch factories were able to maintain the high level of performance even after 1900, but the outstanding position in the economic structure of the city had to be shared with the brine thermal bath since 1913/14. "
Hoffmann's starch factories were spared from destruction during the Second World War . Since there was no dismantling and only a few parts of the plant were confiscated as accommodation for the British occupying forces , production started again in the summer of 1945. The production of potato starch was resumed in 1948 and rice starch production was resumed in 1950.
The Ciba-Geigy AG of Basel in 1981 took over the majority shareholding, in 1985 it was taken over by the British company Reckitt & Colman PLC, which ceased production on location Salzufler 1990th Today, Hoffmann's products are sold by Reckitt Benckiser from Slough, England .
Company Name
- Starch factory near Salzuflen , from September 29, 1850
- E. Hoffmann & Co. , from July 1, 1869
- E. Hoffmann & Co. KG , from January 1, 1875
- E. Hoffmann & Co. KG aA , from March 17, 1881
- Hoffmann's starch factories AG , from January 1, 1887
Employee
The numerically largest group of Hoffmann's workforce consisted of unskilled workers who carried out (most) simple work processes in starch production.
No reliable employee numbers are available for the company's first few years. From initially " six or seven men and two girls (...) or 24 to 27 men and 12 girls in the years 1861/1862 " to around 150 employees in 1870, these were always unconfirmed figures. It was not until 1875, on December 1st, that the official gazette of the Principality of Lippe recorded a total of 386 employees. For the years 1880 to 1914 (* before the start of the war), confirmed annual mean figures are available:
| Adult male | Adult female | Adolescents male | Adolescents female | all in all | ||||||
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| year | number | in % | number | in % | number | in % | number | in % | Total number | in % |
| 1880 | 650 | 57.3 | 359 | 31.7 | 85 | 7.5 | 40 | 3.5 | 1,134 | 100 |
| 1885 | 623 | 56.7 | 354 | 32.3 | 85 | 7.7 | 36 | 3.3 | 1,098 | 100 |
| 1890 | 591 | 56.9 | 362 | 34.9 | 57 | 5.5 | 28 | 2.7 | 1,038 | 100 |
| 1900 | 790 | 67.6 | 246 | 21.1 | 49 | 4.2 | 83 | 7.1 | 1,168 | 100 |
| 1905 | 682 | 65.4 | 230 | 22.1 | 63 | 6.0 | 68 | 6.5 | 1,043 | 100 |
| 1910 | 678 | 69.5 | 213 | 21.9 | 47 | 4.8 | 37 | 3.8 | 975 | 100 |
| 1914 * | 672 | 70.4 | 175 | 18.3 | 28 | 2.9 | 80 | 8.4 | 955 | 100 |
In 1886 the number of employees was once over 1,200, otherwise always around the 1,000 limit, which was no longer exceeded from 1908 onwards due to the increasing mechanization of the company.
In the period after the First World War, there were massive job cuts at Hoffmann's starch factories: at the end of 1921, 1,055 workers were working for the company, a year later there were 856 and at the end of 1923 only 695 employees.
Most of the workforce remained loyal to the company for many years, some of them "for life". In 1900, Hoffmann's had 45 employees for 25 or more years (4%); five years later, in 1905, there were already nine women and 106 men (11%).
When Heinrich Bröker died in 1899, he was the “last survivor from the time the starch factory was founded”, he received a grave site with a memorial stone from the company, which was maintained at the company's expense until the 1980s.
strike
In the company's long history, there has only been one strike : after an arbitrator's verdict was rejected on February 1, 1924, the workers began to strike on February 4, 1924. The reason for this was the demands for an increase in the hourly wage from 30 pfennigs to 40 pfennigs and a return from the 55-hour week to the 48-hour week. The company management reacted with immediate dismissals for over 90 percent of the employees. After a strike vote on February 16, the strike collapsed in the days that followed. In the following weeks, the workforce was gradually built up to the level of February 4th.
Branches
In order to avoid French customs clearance, Eduard Hoffmann founded his own cardboard factory in Paris in 1883 and in Nantes in 1885 . In 1901 a branch was founded in Marcoing in the north of France , which was destroyed in 1914 and dissolved again in 1919 after the First World War . 1909, only four years after its inception, another branch operation was Italian Bovisa in Milan sold.
subsidiary company
In 1919 the Bega-Werke , named after the Bega flowing past the property , was founded, a printing company and a large paper processing company. Folding boxes and hard paper cans were also part of the delivery program, as was the emergency money of the city of Bad Salzuflen, printed in 1921 (see below). In 1928 the Bega-Werke became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hoffmann's starch factories.
Business reports
For the year 1904, the supervisory board, including the lecture from 1903 (95,149.19 marks), describes a net profit of 865,284.64 marks. Of this, 516,000 marks were distributed to the shareholders as a 4% dividend and 8% special dividend , 40,000 marks were booked for extra write-offs and 65,000 marks as a bonus to the supervisory board. 74,111.50 marks benefited, among other things, the fund for the welfare institutions, the pension and support fund and the factory health insurance.
The work
production
In the Hoffmann's starch factory, the production and refinement of laundry starch (including laundry soap) and cornstarch were followed .
Hoffmann's end users used laundry starch to treat the fabric of laundry and clothing items after washing. Above all, the collars and cuffs on men's shirts, ruffles on blouses, aprons, bed linen, curtains and tablecloths were strengthened. The tissue was thereby strengthened and brought into shape.
Even then, cornstarch was used as an ingredient in numerous cooking recipes and in the food industry.
Products from Hoffmann's starch factories
Patent strength
The “finest patent strength (guaranteed chemically pure)” was sold in boxes of 5 kg, 2 1 ⁄ 2 kg, 1 kg, 1 ⁄ 2 kg, 1 ⁄ 4 kg, 1 ⁄ 8 kg and 1 ⁄ 16 kg.
No. 1 piece thickness
The "finest No. 1 piece strength “was delivered in boxes of 5 kg, 2 1 ⁄ 2 kg or loose.
Silver shine strength
Hoffmann's silver-gloss strength was considered the "best product for silver-gloss flattening". The laundry received “a dazzling white with a silver-like sheen and an elastic, stiff finish ”.
There were four small packets of starch in a box. One package was enough to strengthen three shirts , three pairs of cuffs and six collars . To do this, the contents of a packet had to be dissolved in warm water (two full tablespoons) in a shallow bowl half an hour before use. The solution had to be stirred again immediately before use. The dry objects to be strengthened were dipped in, then squeezed out, made smooth in shape and then wrapped in a dry cloth so that the laundry did not get too dry. In order to obtain pure flatting, a clean flatting underlay that was not ironed yellow was absolutely necessary.
Hoffmann's colored strength
For pink, purple, blue or green items of laundry.
Corn syrup
From September 1948 onwards, Hoffmann's also made starch syrup . This is mainly used in industrial food production for sweetening food and drinks. This makes this syrup one of the most important products in the starch industry. The enzymatic breakdown of the starch means that sweet sugars can be obtained not only from sugar cane and sugar beet , but also from more economical plants such as maize ( corn syrup ), potatoes and wheat , which is now done on an industrial scale in the process of starch saccharification. In terms of energy content and effect, the glucose syrup is similar to ordinary table sugar .
distribution
The logo
The cat - the symbol for cleanliness - has been inextricably linked to Hoffmann's starch factories since its introduction as an advertising symbol. The original design was provided by Fedor Flinzer (1832–1911) , known as the “Saxon Cat Raffael” . Today he is considered one of the most important illustrators of the founding years .
On April 8, 1876, the trademark “cat” was entered in the trademark register of the Salzuflen District Court. Eighteen years later, on October 26, 1894, it was transferred to the Reich Patent Office's drawing roll under No. 30 , and since December 1, 1922, the cat has been protected worldwide by its entry in the International Register in Bern .
Cats like the one in the picture opposite, some of them up to two meters high, were modeled for various occasions in the early 1930s. In 1933 there was a moving van with a cat and a poster that said
- The old German Hoffmann speaks:
- "It doesn't work without strength!"
in action during the "German Week of Lipperland", an advertising week for German quality goods. Also on June 15, 1939, during a move on the occasion of the “Westphalia Tour of the Old Guard”, the car rolled through Bad Salzuflen. For the 100th anniversary of the company on September 29, 1950, such a cat was placed on a pedestal decorated with flowers in the courtyard of Hoffmann's starch factories. She was also sitting on a float that drove through the city center of Salzuflen on the 500th anniversary of Salzuflen's city charter on May 29, 1988. A third cat (see picture) stood in front of the former Bad Salzufler City and Bath Museum in Langen Strasse.
Bill from 1893
1903 bill
Old views
(1) Contor building,
residential building, rice store
(3) West view,
centrifuge room
(5) Printing & Cardboard Factory
(6) South wing of the main
building, wood processing
(8) Dining room II,
dining room I, kitchen
(10) North-west view,
press room
(11) North-east view,
cockroach room
(12) North view, strength room
The Werkbahn
By granting his own grant of 20,000 thalers for the construction of the Herford-Lage-Detmold railway line by the Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and a factory connection, Hoffmann was allowed to run the standard-gauge tracks with horse operation long before the line opened (January 1, 1881) use to transport raw materials and finished products.
Narrow gauge
A horse-powered narrow-gauge railway on light field railway tracks with steel sleepers is said to have existed within the factory premises since 1881, which also led to the station.
Safety of operations and employees
The plant fire brigade
Two major fires, one in the night of March 12th to 13th, 1862, and especially that in the night of January 1st to 2nd, 1881 (the fire damage amounted to 2,208,273 marks), each of which was almost complete was destroyed, led to the establishment of an in-house fire brigade on April 1, 1882. In close cooperation with professional fire brigades, a carefully organized, independent fire protection system was set up for the company. As early as 1895, electrical fire alarms with alarm devices were installed in all the factory rooms of the starch factory . The approximately 50-man fire brigade was also equipped, for example, with three large steam pumps, a planetary hand extinguisher, an emergency vehicle with a mobile extension ladder, a large hand syringe and 158 filled fire buckets.
At this time the Hoffmann fire brigade maintained close relationships with the professional fire brigade in Bremen ; Members of the plant fire brigade were trained there. At the suggestion of the director of the Bremen fire brigade, for example, a modern steam pump was purchased in 1899. The costs of around 21,000 marks including a new syringe house were approved by the company management without further ado.
In 1900 a new hydrant line was laid in the factory. After another fire, which the plant fire brigade had already smothered in the beginning, in 1926, the Hoffmann fire brigade received a new extension ladder, a modern motorized syringe, chemical wet fire extinguishers and automatic fire alarms in rooms at risk of fire; Bucket syringes replace the extinguishing buckets. In addition, the hydrant pipeline was connected to the municipal water network and four water extraction points were installed at Bega and Salze .
Until the mid-1930s, the Hoffmann's starch factory fire brigade was the only one of its kind in the whole of Lippe .
In 1990 the fire brigade was disbanded.
The factory security
Over the years, especially after the events of the First World War, the protection of the company and its employees against all possible dangers has developed from the exemplary organized fire brigade described above. After initial preparatory work in 1932, plant security also included air and gas protection. The company had decentralized air raid shelters in the most modern design at the time (including facilities for message transmission and medical assistance) distributed throughout the company, and twelve air raid shelters were available for the entire workforce in an emergency.
In order to ensure that the security staff regularly trained in the large hall was ready at all times, a large exercise and security plan equipped with electrical signaling equipment and signaling was available; It goes without saying that all factory security departments and the authorities were informed quickly. All active and three-shift personnel recorded were listed and divided into the following departments in an air raid protection personnel file:
- Plant security manager and deputy
- Reporters and telephone personnel
- folder
- Works police
- usher
- Observation post
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Plant fire brigade
- Fire guards
- Factory medical service
- Troop troop
- Restoration Squad
- Gas detector
- Detoxifier
- Emergency workforce
The factory security of Hoffmann's starch factories set high standards with its facility, which was exemplary for the time, which was used as a model and for training courses for many similar facilities in the East Westphalian region.
The factory site today
Most of the factory buildings were demolished. The site is now used as a shopping center with several large sales houses. Have settled, among other Edeka (market purchase), a shoe, bunk and toy stores as well as a specialized trade for consumer electronics.
Charities
Company social facilities
The factory or company health insurance fund
Twelve years before the introduction of statutory health insurance and five years before the establishment of the German Reich, from January 1, 1871, the employees of Hoffmann's starch factories were benefiting from social insurance. In the "Statute for the sickness fund of the starch factory near Salzuflen concerning civil servants and workers" there are no major differences compared to today's, modern health insurance : Free medicine, free cure, monetary support during incapacity for work and a death benefit were guaranteed to employees.
With the introduction of Bismarck's social legislation , the institution continued to operate as a statutory company health insurance fund from 1885. The so far accumulated assets of 14,902.86 marks were transferred to the works pension and support fund (see below).
Cases of sickness from total members and average duration of illness
- 1885: 43% male / 18 days - 48% female / 19 days
- 1900: 39% male / 25 days - 32% female / 19 days
- 1913: 32% male / 31 days - 23% female / 41 days
- 1925: 31% male / 36 days - 64% female / 35 days
- 1935: 18% male / 32 days - 25% female / 22 days
In 1993 the company health insurance fund was finally dissolved.
The pension and support fund
With the approval of all 70 members of the General Assembly for a pension and support fund, it was founded on December 7, 1879. On January 1, 1880, it began its work, and on February 10, the statute was approved by the police by the magistrate. According to Section 1 of the statutes , the official name was "Civil servants 'and workers' support and pension fund of the starch factory near Salzuflen". All persons in the service of the company and their relatives should be secured from this fund in the event of need for help. As of January 1, 2015, the pension and support fund will be part of the “Cologne Pension Fund ”.
The Hoffmann pen
For its 50th anniversary in 1900, the extensive expansion of the welfare institutions culminated in the foundation of its own hospital, the "Hoffmann-Stift". Construction was decided in 1896, and 15,000 marks were included in the balance sheet . With amounts set aside from the net profits of 40,000 marks (1897) and 45,000 marks (1898), the amount rose to 100,000 marks. In 1900 the provision was 250,000 marks.
For the approximately six hectare property on today's Rudolf-Brandes-Allee, 27,430.58 marks had to be paid, the gardens cost 12,968.71 marks. The construction itself cost 160,161.18 marks, to which 27,310.81 marks were added for the interior decoration, so that the total costs amounted to 227,871.28 marks. The Caritas fountain , donated by the city for inauguration, was erected in front of the monastery .
Leberecht Hoffmann spoke at the inauguration of the hospital: “(…) Thanks to our supervisory board, who happily followed the suggestion and gave the factory management the means with which such a beautiful, proud building could be built. (...) Whoever brings a lot will bring something to some people, so we thought, and we will work so that there is no need to stand still in efforts to improve the quality of life of our large workforce. "
On December 19, 1919, Hoffmann's starch factories signed a contract with the city of Bad Salzuflen and the local health insurance fund, which guaranteed that their patients would be transferred to the Hoffmann Foundation.
Head of the Hoffmann Foundation:
- Medical Council Dr. Strunk, 1900 to 1931
- Head Nurse Magdalene, 1931 to ????
The building was leased in 1965 and used as a nursing home until its closure and subsequent demolition in 1976. Today, the parking lot of the new town hall built in front of it is located on the site of the former monastery.
Facilitation to the satisfaction of the needs of life
Factory and service apartments
As mentioned in the “ History ” section , the company relied on external labor. In order to keep them, especially the skilled workers, on behalf of Hoffmann's starch factories, factory and service apartments were built for the employees from around 1870 onwards. One began with residential buildings, equipped with living rooms and dormitories, kitchen and dining room for up to 180 unmarried workers and the first individual houses on Hoffmannstrasse. Double houses followed at the end of the 1870s on their own land on Ahornstrasse and in 1884 the director's house at the entrance to the factory premises. Further buildings followed from 1890 to 1900 on Rudolph-Brandes-Allee. During the period of inflation, twin houses were built on Riestestrasse, among other places. There were also houses that were for sale, for example on Bahnhofstrasse; After renovations and extensions, they were used for caretaker, porter, coachman and apprentice apartments or as guest homes.
The allocation of apartments and houses was based on various criteria: Apartments in the vicinity of the factory were given to the employees of the plant security, the plant fire brigade or the repair supervisor (quick availability). Senior commercial employees, technicians and chemists received the officials' houses. Furthermore, performance, earnings and length of service were of decisive importance in the award.
The company apartments were available to employees at a reduced price; Company apartments were rent-free because they belonged to the relevant positions of the employees.
Hoffmann's consumer institute
In order to save the employees time-consuming detours (the workers partly lived in the country, Salzuflen did not yet have a distinct retail trade, and the starch factory was outside the city), Eduard Hoffmann founded the “Hoffmann's Consum-Anstalt” in 1879. His more than 1000 workers were to be supplied with all consumer goods while preventing the otherwise frequent price fluctuations. The clothing needs were covered by a manufactured goods department with its own tailor's shop, shoes were also kept in the shop, as were household items made of iron, enamel , earthenware and porcelain and luxury items such as tobacco , cigars , mineral water and alcoholic beverages; a special concession had been obtained for the retail trade in brandy . Soon after, a bakery was attached to the consumer establishment.
After initial success - the turnover was at times higher than that of all Salzufler retailers combined! - the first reviews of the Salzufler merchants soon came, so that in 1884 the sale of bread had to be restricted. In 1889 the manufacture goods department was given up and the tailoring shop leased to the master tailor who had previously worked there. The founding of the Central Association of German Consumer Organizations provided the economic reason for the slow decline of the Hoffmann'sche Konsumanstalt; the year 1911 brought losses for the consumer organization for the first time. In the post-war years the institution became a subsidy operation. In the years of a particularly high loss, 1927/1928, the bakery was finally given up, the household items business closed in 1934 and the coffee roasting shop closed in 1961. So only the original grocery department with the attached canteen "Zur Quelle" remained. The final closure took place on July 31, 1981.
Improvements to workplaces and work breaks
Both the dining rooms, the “comradeship house”, which was inaugurated on June 30, 1935, with “central heating and comfortable chairs, modern toilets, radio sets and film projector”, and the green space built in place of the residential barracks that were demolished in 1936 served to “strengthen the company community, maintain the comradeship and recovery during work breaks ”.
In accordance with the company symbol - the cat stood for cleanliness and order - the factory buildings were also painted in "pretty white" color, the courtyards were neatly paved, always clean and tidy and the common rooms, changing rooms and toilets were always presentable.
General director Otto Künne made the following words : “The company should be a home for all its members. Workers and employees must like to go to their workplace, feel comfortable and secure in it, they must feel connected to the company and stand together in real camaraderie everywhere. "
Organization of the evening and the cultivation of camaraderie
The works library
The works library founded before 1900 - its original name was "Hoffmann's Büchersammlung" - had around 300 volumes in October 1905; by the mid-1930s the number had increased tenfold to around 3,000. Lending was free of charge for all readers; the running costs for the library were of course borne by the company.
Up until around 1930, new acquisitions were selected based on the wishes of the readership in comparison with the budget; from then on, both the right of the political district leadership and the Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Werklibrary in the Reichsschrifttumskammer had more and more of a say. The loan itself took place once a week by a volunteer member of the Hoffmann staff.
The works library was closed in the 1960s.
The company magazine
Between 1937 and 1944 a company magazine was published for the employees of the Bega factories and the starch factory. There were a total of 53 issues, which mainly reported on what was happening in the factories, the company history and the life of Leberecht and Eduard Hoffmann.
The cone club starch factory
The "Kegelklub starch factory" was founded on April 26, 1888 to maintain physical exercise and camaraderie at the same time. Other clubs followed, such as "Club 05" founded in 1905. The company had a bowling alley built in the park so that there were no costs for the members. The fact that there was only one track quickly resulted in the group being formed into three clubs: one for office workers, one for technical staff and one for company employees. In 1910, after the old system was demolished, the company had a new one built to meet the higher demands with the associated equipment. But the war led to a deep break in comradeship. It failed to keep the old clubs viable. In 1932, a scissor lift was installed next to the old plank runway according to the rules of the bowling association. At the end of 1935, the railways received an automatic ball return and a display clock.
The works choral society
Founded on April 23, 1895, the statutes of the works choral society described "the maintenance of male singing among the staff" as its main task. With the approval of the company's management, the association was named "Hoffmann'sche Liedertafel starch factory near Salzuflen". Contributions should only be raised if necessary, regular practice time was on Saturday evening, from 9 p.m. In the spring of 1896 Leberecht Hoffmann approved the financial means for a piano. Due to the First World War and the troubled times that followed, there were fewer and fewer singers, so that the song table was dissolved in the mid-1920s. With the economic upswing from 1933, the tradition of the choral society was revived: 70 employees met for the founding meeting on January 11, 1935 in the dining room of the Hoffmann factory. The costs for contributions and grades were covered by the management, a new piano - the old one had been given to the Lyceum for school purposes - was made available by the manager. The practice was no longer in the evening, but between 5:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., that is, immediately after work. The success soon came. For example, the celebration of Labor Day 1935, the inauguration of the Comradeship House and the Christmas party were accompanied by several songs.
The factory band and the marching band
Only one year after the choral society was founded, in the spring of 1896, the band was founded to promote employees who were gifted with musical instruments and to beautify company parties and celebrations. As early as the following year, the members of the band surprised everyone with their performance on the occasion of the German Empress' visit to the factory. For the 50th anniversary celebrations in 1900, the practice under the direction of a former Kapellmeister was particularly intense. There were even six members of the Detmold battalion band - they were supposed to help with the practice over the cliffs of the first few years - to the weekly practice hours.
As in the other areas, the company took over all the costs for the practice evenings, sheet music, instruments and other purchases, but the same rule applies here: With the beginning of the First World War, the band fell apart. Some of the instruments passed into the possession of the military band stationed in Salzuflen, which had become a garrison .
It was not until January 1933 that the employees returned to the old traditions: Eighteen employees founded a marching band . The company provided the equipment again - for more than 1,000 Reichsmarks. There was practice every fortnight. The successes came, and in 1936 another company band was founded. But the existence of the “Salonorchester Hoffmannstark” was short-lived, because this facility was not revived after the war.
The casino
In 1903, on December 5th, the Hoffmann'sche Official Casino was created based on Krupp 's model . According to the statutes, the aim was to “maintain sociability and entertainment by using the reading room and the other rooms”. Hoffmann's starch factories signed a lease agreement for some rooms with the Hotel Kaiserhof (today the Osterstrasse multi-storey car park is located here ), had them converted and furnished accordingly, so that the casino could be opened on December 5, 1903.
Due to the cost of newspapers and magazines, an annual lease of 1,000 marks and the failure to meet the requirements, the company management caused the casino to be closed at the end of 1908.
Company outings
The annual excursions, particularly carried out from the turn of the century to the First World War, were very popular with the workforce. After all, they were large-scale events with the entire workforce and their family members. The company took over all the costs of drinks, cold meals, the children's program and sometimes fireworks; for the excursion on August 19, 1905, these amounted to about 3,250 marks.
In addition, Hoffmann's starch factories organize an annual excursion for retirees and the widows of former employees. By bus, train or steamship it went up in the late 1930s in the Lipper or Weserbergland . On May 2, 1936, for example, the entire 700-strong workforce was invited to a trip on a special train to Karlshafen . From there, three ships went down the Weser to Hameln .
Others
The Johannaberg recreation home, originally built as a country house (after Eduard Hoffmann's first wife Johanne Böhmer from Blomberg, who died in 1868 ), was built in Berlebeck in 1880 , and the re-establishment of a Catholic community in 1876 and the construction of the Lutheran parish in Salzuflen were supported by considerable financial support from the family Hoffmann and the starch factories.
archive
The Hoffmann'sche company archive with a total of 80 shelf meters was on 15./16. Taken on permanent loan from the city of Bad Salzuflen in May 1991 and, after a thorough examination, divided into the following sub-collections (signature groups):
- HI: files, business books and literature from the Hoffmann and Künne families, approx. 4000 numbers (500 of which were sent to the city archives in a second delivery in December 1993), 1849 to 1990
- H II: photos, photo albums, slide series and films, approx. 800 numbers, 1881 to 1990
- H III: Maps and plans, about 200 numbers, 1876 to 1990
- H IV: Advertising: posters, sample books, postcards, package inserts, “fairy tale books”, etc., approx. 400 numbers, 1880 to 1990
- HV: Sample packs of Hoffmann's products and products from competing companies, approx. 250 numbers, 1885 to 1993
- H VI: Festschriften, company magazines, specialist literature on the starch industry, from 1869
- H VII: Special group of museum assets, including a company model from 1941, plant fire brigade uniforms, factory flags, advertising signs, paintings, etc.
Only a few industrial companies of this size are likely to have a similarly dense source record that extends over such a long period of time. Detailed information on the development of the starch factories is provided, for example, in the minutes of the meetings of the supervisory board of the stock corporation, which are available from 1887 to 1972 . The company anniversaries (1900, 1925, 1940, 1950 and 1975) documented in files, photos and various items in the collection provide information on how to deal with one's own history; Even about the time of National Socialism , the integration of the company into the Nazi system, numerous archival documents are available, including files on the employment of foreign workers and prisoners of war.
literature
- Gustav Delpy : Festschrift for the fiftieth anniversary of Hoffmann's starch factories AG, Salzuflen on September 29, 1900 . Salzuflen 1900.
- Bettina Eller-Studzinsky, Stefan Wiesekopsieker: 150 years of Hoffmann's strength - Bad Salzuflen's way into the industrial age . Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2000, ISBN 3-89570-692-2 .
- Franz Meyer and Stefan Wiesekopsieker: The company archive of Hoffmann's starch factories on permanent loan in the Bad Salzufler city archive . Archive maintenance in Westphalia and Lippe, issue 39, 1994.
- Richard Tiemann: The welfare institutions of Hoffmann's starch factories Aktiengesellschaft Bad Salzuflen . Lemgo 1936.
- Richard Tiemann: 80 years of Hoffmann's starch factories, 60 years of Hoffmann's rice starch brand cat. A review and outlook . Lemgo 1930.
- Otto Sartorius: 100 years of Hoffmann's starch factories, Bad Salzuflen. A memorial book . Bielefeld 1950.
- Stefan Wiesekopsieker: Hoffmann's starch factories Bad Salzuflen. 140 years of company history in words and pictures . 1st edition. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1990, ISBN 3-89264-451-9 .
- Small-scale industry in the Teutoburg Forest . In: The Gazebo . Issue 7, 1876, pp. 119–123 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Official website of Hoffmanns
- Official website of Reckitt Benckiser
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Hoffmann's starch factories in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Wiesekopsieker: Hoffmann's Stärkefabriken Bad Salzuflen. 140 years of company history in words and pictures .
- ^ Franz Meyer, city archivist and museum director on November 21, 2002: Lecture "The past and present of Bad Salzuflen"
- ↑ Franz Meyer: "The 1950s and 1960s" in Bad Salzuflen - Epochs of City History
- ↑ Interview with Adolf Meier, 1900
- ^ Official Journal of the Principality of Lippe , October 16, 1878, No. 84, pp. 356-357
- ↑ Stadtarchiv Bad Salzuflen, HI 1915 and 1959 or HI 4381
- ↑ a b Bad Salzuflen town archive: H I1203
- ↑ General Gazette for Salzuflen, Schötmar and Oerlinghausen , September 1, 1898
- ↑ Detmold State Archives: L80.15 No. 27 and L80.16 No. 814 and Bad Salzuflen City Archives: H I1201 (press clippings)
- ^ Supervisory board of Hoffmann's strengh factories AG: Hoffmann's strengh factories in Bad Salzuflen - business report and balance sheet for the year 1904 for the eighteenth ordinary general meeting on March 25th, 1905; Salzuflen, March 3, 1905.
- ↑ A track plan of this horse-drawn tram from 1883 is in Menninghaus, Werner: Tramways in Lippe-Detmold and in the Paderborner Land. Lübbecke: Uhle & Kleimann, illustrated in 1987.
- ^ A b Richard Tiemann: The welfare institutions of Hoffmann's starch factories Aktiengesellschaft Bad Salzuflen . Lemgo 1936.
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