Huth apparatus factory
The Huth Apparatefabrik in Hanover was a company founded during the Second World War to manufacture radio equipment for the Wehrmacht . The factory building erected for this purpose in the early 1940s can be found in the Hanover district of Ricklingen at the address Göttinger Chaussee 76.
history
The Huth apparatus factory GmbH was in the era of National Socialism originally on 10 October 1934 as sole proprietorship at the Spinnereistraße established a road on the border of the Hanoverian districts of Linden-Nord and Linden-Mitte , in the course of Leinertbrücke over the Ihme leads. Right from the start, the company produced precision engineering equipment intended for the war, such as radios, transmitters, receivers and altimeters. It was not until 1939 that the company was converted into a GmbH .
According to its articles of association, the GmbH was founded on December 29, 1939 at the latest, less than four months after the start of the Second World War, with half of the capital being contributed by the two Berlin companies Lorenz and Telefunken . The documents of the Huth Apparatefabrik GmbH , such as balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and business reports, which were formerly available at the bank of Deutsche Luftfahrt AG , also include documents from 1938. The company's subsidiary was the Berlin- based Dr. Erich Huth GmbH .
According to plans by the architect Ernst Zinsser , in collaboration with Edgar Schlubach and Emil Lorenz , the Huth factory building was built in the war years 1940 to 1941 on the area between today's Bückeburger Allee and the area of the United Light Metal Works (VLW) to the north . From 1935 onwards, Zinsser had already planned the VLW plant to the west of it at Göttinger Chaussee 14, which is now empty.
The Huth factory was essentially an elongated building parallel to the street. The architects added two wings connecting at right angles to this main body on the courtyard side, but the eaves were about half a storey higher. Three storeys were erected above the basement, the red clinker facades of which were clearly structured. On the street side, the building shows twenty-eight window axes, in which the windows and the parapets have been set back by half a stone's length. This means that the main page of the facade is structured both vertically and horizontally through the row of windows. This middle part is framed on the right and left by four small window openings in smooth masonry surfaces. Hipped roofs covered with red tiles with ridges at the same height were erected over the three structures.
At a later point in time, which can no longer be determined, the northern part of the building was raised by one storey over a length of 14 window axes, with the eaves essentially being retained.
Possibly from 1941 two photographs with views of the Huth apparatus factory come from the extremely incomplete “ estate ” of the architect Ernst Zinsser at the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art at the University of Hanover (Technical University until 1978) . The information "cigar factory" made by an unknown hand and the name of the photographer Aenne Heise can be found without further explanation.
Only a few weeks after Germany surrendered in early May 1945 - at the time of the British military commanders - the Berlin Telefunken company became the successor to Huth-Apparatebau GmbH "at their production facilities in Ricklingen".
After the property was owned by Thomson Consumer Electronics GmbH & Co.OHG in the second half of the 1990s , according to a letter from the company's press and public relations department in Germany, no documents about the property were available in 1997 either there or at the parent company in Paris . The building file for Göttinger Chaussee 76 at the Hanover Building Regulations Office no longer contained any documents relating to the old building.
literature
- Ralph Haas: manufacturing building of the Huth apparatus factory , in Günther Kokkelink (ed.), Ralph Haas: Ernst Zinsser. Life and work of an architect of the fifties in Hanover (= writings of the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the Technical University of Hanover , Vol. 15), also dissertation 1999 at the University of Hanover, 1st edition, Vol. 1, p. 66 and Vol. 2, p. 21
Archival material
Archival material from and about the former Huth apparatus factory can be found, for example
- in the Federal Archives in written material from the provenance of the Bank der Deutschen Luftfahrt AG from the time of National Socialism from 1933 to 1945, here specifically from the period from 1939 to 1942, archival signature : BArch, R 8121/325 (old / previous signature: 7302 )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Compare the information from the German Digital Library on the archival signature BArch, R 8121/325 (old / pre-signature 7302 ) of the Federal Archives
- ↑ a b c d e f g Ralph Haas: production building of the Huth apparatus factory , in Günther Kokkelink (ed.), Ralph Haas: Ernst Zinsser. Life and work of an architect of the fifties in Hanover (= writings of the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the Technical University of Hanover , Vol. 15), also dissertation 1999 at the University of Hanover, 1st edition, Vol. 1, p. 66 and Vol. 2, p. 21
- ↑ a b Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1945 , in: Hannover Chronik , pp. 189–203; here: p. 198; [1] Preview on Google Books
- ↑ a b Frank Baranowski: Armaments production in the middle of Germany 1929 - 1945. Southern Lower Saxony with Braunschweiger Land and Northern Thuringia including the Southern Harz - comparative consideration of the staggered construction of two armaments centers , 2nd revised and expanded edition, Bad Langensalza: Verlag Rockstuhl, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-530-4 , (here without page number); Preview over google books
- ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Spinnereistraße and Leinertbrücke , in which: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , pp. 232, 157
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 50.3 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 1 ″ E