Jacob Ravené sons

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Seal of the Jacob Ravené Sons company, after 1897

Jacob Ravené sons was a Ravenésches family business that was under this name 1828-1945 was based in Berlin.

prehistory

Rules of procedure from 1854

The company was founded in 1775 by Jacques Ravené (1751–1828). In accordance with his training, he dealt with the iron foundry, but had soon inherited the hardware store "Samuel Gottlieb Butzer", founded in 1722, from his father-in-law.

It was soon noticed that trading was better and easier to do business with than the dirty and expensive manufacture of iron parts. Over the next two generations, the company switched to wholesale steel and iron goods. In the first decades of the 19th century, the company ceased its own production (in the sense of original molding ). However, large warehouses were still maintained, mainly for semi-finished products , but also for small household parts.

From 1801, according to the Berlin address book, the main location is Stralauer Straße 28/29.

Jacob Ravené sons

In 1824 Jacques Ravené handed over management of the company to his sons Karl Peter (1777–1841) and Pierre Louis Ravené (1793–1861). The production remained connected through financing and investments - for example in 1837 with the construction of the iron rolling mill by Carl Justus Heckmann on what was then Schafgraben in front of the Schlesisches Tor , today Landwehrkanal and Heckmannufer in Kreuzberg .

In 1833 the company headquarters were relocated to Wallstrasse 92/93.

When Peter Louis Ravené died in 1861, his son Louis Friedrich Jacob Ravené took over the management. But just 18 years later, he died at the age of 55 and left three underage children who inherited the business. At that time, it consisted of the companies Jacob Ravené Sons (Stralauer Strasse 28/29), Jacob Ravené Sons (Wallstrasse 7-8), Jacob Ravené Sons & Co. (London), Joh. Chr. Schultze & Sohn Successor (Chausseestrasse 24) and Siegm. Eppstein successor . Louis Ferdinand August Ravené took over the management when he came of age.

Above all, the construction of railway networks in the following decades brought great profits in Prussia and its neighboring countries. The Ravenés were also called the "iron kings". In the central and eastern provinces of Prussia they had a leading market position and were about what the Krupp family was in the western, Rhenish provinces .

Ravené was a member of the Corporation of the Berlin merchants , in whose membership directory he was registered with the following companies: Jacob Ravené Sons & Co. (Wallstrasse 92–93), Jacob Ravené Söhne (Wallstrasse 92–93), Jacob Ravené Söhne, Short term Detail-Gesch. (Stralauer Str. 28–29) and Joh. Chr. Schultze & Sohn (Chausseestr. 24). Besides Louis Ferdinand August Ravené , the managing director was Gustav Krehl , whom Ravené had brought on board as a partner in 1893.

The prosperous company built a monumental office building at Wallstrasse 5–8 from 1889–1896, which not only housed the main office but also offered plenty of storage space and where rooms were set up for Ravené's collection of paintings . In the course of time, several trading companies were founded that were active in different areas.

In 1906 Ravené founded the Vereinigte Ravené'sche Stabeisen- und Trägerhandlungen AG and four years later played a key role in the establishment of the Deutscher Eisenhandel Aktiengesellschaft , a merger of the “Silesian Dealer Group ” and Ravené AG. The Silesian co-founders included MJ Caro & Sohn and Eduard Lindner as well as other East and Central German iron wholesalers. The Deutscher Eisenhandel Aktiengesellschaft started its work on January 1, 1910.

In 1922 the company was converted into a limited partnership and branches were established in Breslau , Dresden , Frankfurt aM , Hamburg , Königsberg , Rostock and Ulm . In the fourth generation, the family capital was used for all kinds of commercial activities. In 1938 the Königsberg branch was the last to be closed again. In 1939 the company had to leave the office building at Wallstrasse 5-8 and moved into premises in Alt-Stralau 4. In 1944, Louis Ferdinand August Ravené died. His son Peter Louis Ravené now became the managing director, but died in 1945.

After 1945

The headquarters of the Jacob Ravené Söhne company , now owned by the three daughters of Louis Ferdinand August Ravené, was in the Soviet sector, in Alt-Stralau 4. The buildings had been badly damaged in the Second World War. After cleaning and repair work, the iron trade picked up again. From 1948 the company was a GmbH and established a branch at Kurfürstendamm 184. In 1950 the Jacob Ravené Söhne GmbH came under the trusteeship of the Deutsche Handelszentrale-Maschinen und Fahrzeugbau, Berlin. In 1953, the company that now wholesale for small iron and household goods had a turnover of 300,000 marks. In 1956 the Jacob Ravené Söhne GmbH in East Berlin went bankrupt. At the time, Ravené still had 64 employees. According to the telephone directory, the Ravené Fabrik und Handelsbetriebe KG (Zehlendorf, Limastraße 5) and Ravené Stahl AG (Alt-Moabit 131, Lager Quitzowstraße 50), founded in 1938, were located in the western part of the city . There was also the formerly Ravenéscher Rohrhandel GmbH (Tempelhof , Industriestrasse 35–37) and the formerly Ravenéscher Eisenhandel- und Eisenbau GmbH (Sickingstrasse 9–17) In 1955, the Ravené & Co. limited partnership in West Berlin, Tempelhof, Ringbahnstrasse 22–30, celebrated its 180th anniversary. In 1962 the company Ravené factory and trading company Kom.Ges. deleted in the commercial register. The other companies existed until the 1980s.

Today the name Ravené lives on as part of the two companies

  • Ravené Possehl
  • Ravené Shepherd

who traditionally deal with the iron trade. There is no longer a connection to family members.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address book 1801, accessed October 16, 2019
  2. ↑ Address book 1833 accessed October 26, 2019
  3. ^ Directory of all members of the Corporation der Kaufmannschaft von Berlin and their trading companies registered with the Corporation, 1894
  4. ^ Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, holdings Rav. 1995
  5. ↑ Landesarchiv Berlin, C-Rep 304 No. 54014
  6. ↑ Address book 1939, accessed October 16, 2019
  7. ↑ Landesarchiv Berlin, C-Rep 105 No. 26789
  8. ↑ Landesarchiv Berlin, C-Rep 113 No. 567
  9. ↑ Official telephone directory Berlin accessed on October 31, 2019
  10. ↑ Landesarchiv Berlin, A-Rep 342-02 No. 19568