Johann Weishäupl

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The Johann Weishäupl, meat and sausage factory was a 1912 in Hannover , founded in fine sausage products - meat and canned - factory , which - similar to the female candidate sausage factory Fritz Ahrberg - a Germany-wide mail-order business and a branch network operation and as a GmbH was closed 1984th

history

Bird's eye view of the Emil Vollrath factory , where the journeyman Weishäupl met his wife Elisabeth ;
Wood engraving of a letterhead , around 1910

The origin of the company was initially in the biography of Johann Weishäupl (* May 23, 1882 in Vohenstrauß / Upper Palatinate ; † March 26, 1946 in Hanover), the son of a master butcher. After his apprenticeship as a butcher Weishäupl came during his years of travel to Hannover and started at the meat factory owner Emil Vollrath to work, then the largest companies in the meat industry . In this company, Vollrath also met his wife Elisabeth (born January 17, 1884 in Lebus ; † January 16, 1930 in Hanover), who played a key role in the later rise of the Johann Weishäupl company .

View from the Christ Church to Engelbosteler Damm , where the Weishäupls opened their first shop;
Postcard No. 782 , anonymous photographer, around 1900

At the time of the German Empire , Weishäupl opened his first butcher's shop on Engelbosteler Damm in the northern part of Hanover, which he moved to Klagesmarkt 10 due to increasing demand in 1914 (the year the First World War began ) . After the purchase of a neighboring property on the street Nordfelder Reihe , the business was expanded into a factory for fine meat and sausage products, with which the Weishäupls then built up their initial craft business around the mail order business with the first branches during the Weimar Republic . The death of Weishäupl's wife in 1930 was a great loss, but Johann Weishäupl expanded the branch network to more than 45 stores.

However, the Second World War with its air raids on Hanover destroyed most of the branches and severely damaged the factory on the Nordfelder Reihe.

After the end of the war, initially only makeshift production was possible, and the company founder died in the spring of 1946. Nevertheless, the factory and administration buildings on Nordfelder Reihe and the head office on Klagesmarkt were rebuilt. For the 50th anniversary of the company 36 stores in Hannover Been rebuilt beyond customers were in many cities of the federal territory supplies.

The closure of the company in 1984 was preceded by inefficient production methods and management errors .

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Weishäupl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Weishäupl ... (see literature)
  2. ^ Ernst Büttner: Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony , Stuttgart: Franckh, 1937, p. 59; online through google books
  3. ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein: WEISHÄUPL ... (see literature)

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 51.2 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 44.7"  E