J. Mayer & Son

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Owners of the company J. Mayer & Sohn: Ludo Mayer, Julius Mayer, Robert Hirsch

The Lederwerke Mayer & Feistmann were founded on July 15, 1857 in Offenbach am Main .

Company history

Memorial for the son of the company's founder Julius Mayer: The Ludo Mayer fountain on the Schlossplatz in front of the University of Design, for which Ludo Mayer also donated the funds

On July 15, 1857, the tanner Josef Feistmann and the Frankfurt merchant Julius Mayer founded the “Lederwerke Mayer & Feistmann” in Luisenstrasse.

Due to the rapid growth of the leather goods industry at that time, the premises soon became too small. In the early 1860s, the factory was relocated to Rohrstrasse (today: Hermann-Steinhäuser-Strasse) on the Mainbogen .

Josef Feistmann founded his own company with his sons in 1886 and left the Mayer & Feistmann company. Kommerzienrat Ludo Mayer (born April 28, 1845, † November 14, 1917 in Bad Nauheim ) became co-owner of the factory with his father Julius Mayer in 1870, the company now traded under “J. Mayer & Son ”.

The co-founder Julius Mayer died on April 6, 1887. In 1898 Robert von Hirsch , Ludo Mayer's nephew, joined the company and became a partner in 1906. During this time, the new administration building, which was designed by Hugo Eberhardt , was built. The entire factory premises extended to the square Rohrstraße (Hermann-Steinhäuser-Straße) - Austraße - Mainstraße - Karlstraße.

Ludo Mayer was the first tanner to introduce chrome tanning in Germany. A large donation from Mayer made it possible to build a fountain at Isenburg Palace and to build a new technical college (today the University of Design ). After Ludo Mayer's death in 1917, Robert von Hirsch continued to run the company on his own.

In 1937 Max Hirsch tried to relocate the company to Turin, which failed due to family resistance.

In 1968 the company's production site was relocated to Worms. After the building was demolished in 1970, the Mainpark residential complex was built here .

Building plastic

Sculpture of the portal, today in Offenbach am Main town hall

Two sculptures from the archway of the entrance portal have been kept and are on display in the foyer of Offenbach's town hall.

The partially reconstructed archway itself was put up again in 2013 in the front garden of the German Leather Museum .

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  2. ↑ Petra Bräutigam: Medium-sized entrepreneurs under National Socialism. R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486562-56-8 , p. 278. Available from Google Books .
  3. ↑ Jörg Echtler: Monument for the Mayer works. In: fr-online.de. October 16, 2013, accessed July 9, 2015 .
  4. ^ Anton Jakob Weinberger: Goat skins and heroic workers. In: faz.net. October 27, 2013, accessed July 9, 2015 .

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