Hotibag

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Hotibag was a family-owned construction company with a history of more than 250 years.

founding

On May 2, 1700, Johann Wilhelm Blankenhorn founded the construction company in Ziesar after his father Johann had to give up his pottery business in Freinsheim at the end of the 17th century due to political unrest and relocate to Ziesar. The company later branched out to two locations, one of which, however, was later given up due to a lack of heirs.

Development around 1800

In 1795, the Ziesar branch of the company was married to Georg Christian Meyer, who bequeathed it to his son Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer after his death in 1834. His son Johann Ludwig Wilhelm took over the business in 1854 after moving from Ziesar to Lehnin . The buildings he erected there survived the two world wars.

The 20th century

His son Reinhold Emil Theodor Meyer took over the business in 1892 and was mainly active in railway construction. He led the company through the First World War . Until 1921 he ran the business together with his son, the later resistance fighter Reinhold Meyer under the name Reinhold Meyer & Sohn . Ultimately, he passed the business on to his son and devoted himself exclusively to his work as a building surveyor. Reinhold Meyer renamed the family business Hotibag, building construction and civil engineering business builder Reinhold Meyer . After 1945 the company faced considerable difficulties, as Meyer had joined the NSDAP in 1933 and Hotibag was therefore classified as a party member company, although Meyer was a secret member of the Bethanien resistance group, which his brother-in-law Cuno Horkenbach and his sister Margarete had founded in 1933, during the Nazi era . Meyer's entry into the NSDAP was aimed at supporting the “anti-fascist resistance”; he provided the resistance group with funds, food and accommodation until the end of the war and, in at least one case, hid a persecuted person from the Gestapo in his own apartment during the last years of the war. This is evidenced by several documents by Cuno Horkenbach.

After Reinhold Meyer's death in 1961, the company ceased to exist after more than 250 years. His last seat was in Spenerstr. in Berlin-Moabit.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hotibag (Ed.), 1950. 1700–1950. Anniversary publication on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Blankenhorn Meyer family construction company. P. 7
2. ↑ Hotibag (Ed.), 1950. 1700–1950. Anniversary publication on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Blankenhorn Meyer family construction company. P. 7
3. ↑ Hotibag (Ed.), 1950. 1700–1950. Anniversary publication on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Blankenhorn Meyer family construction company. P. 8
4. ↑ Reinhold Meyer. Letter to the district mayor of the Tiergarten administrative district. December 1, 1945
5. ^ Cuno Horkenbach. Letter to the district mayor of the Tiergarten administrative district, December 1, 1945 and Cuno Horkenbach (1945). Report on the structure and activities of the "Bethanien" resistance movement in 1933/1945