Julius Buchholz (Company)

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The two old buildings of the “Arbeits-Linen-Fabrik Julius Buchholz” in the Osterstrasse 13-15 in Hanover, which were moved together in 1906

Julius Buchholz was the name of a professional linen factory founded in Hanover in the 19th century and the first mail-order company for butcher's supplies in Germany. The company also reported inventions from such fields as machinery for patent on. The namesake of the company, who comes from a Jewish family, was a victim of the persecution of Jews during the November pogroms in 1938 .

One of the company's competitors was the but older butcher's laundry factory Victor Buchholz, also located in Hanover .

history

In the early days of the German Empire , the merchant Julius Buchholz (born 1861) opened a shop on March 1, 1887 in Hanover at the - then - address Osterstraße 12 for the direct sale of butchery supplies and for the production of butcher's professional linen. For the choice of location, the direct neighborhood at the time of the butcher- journeyman's hostel was decisive, through which the initial range of goods was also decisive.

After just a few years, mail order business outweighed the retail business. After the company had been relocated to Osterstraße 13 in 1894, the building with number 15 was included in 1906, which tripled the area used.

Meanwhile, on April 30, 1898, Julius Buchholz had applied for a patent for his invention “ice shelf for cold storage rooms” under the number DRP 103648 . Only a few years later, his invention of a “ dicing machine for cutting fat and streaky bacon”, submitted on December 16, 1912, was recognized by the Reich Patent Office with the number B 33246 .

By the outbreak of the First World War , the company had risen to become one of the leaders in its branch: by 1914, the Julius Buchholz company, a professional laundry factory that had meanwhile produced work clothing for the needs of all professional groups , had exported to thousands of direct buyers and resellers throughout the German Reich but also abroad.

Due to the war, through which the majority of consumers were called to arms, as well as the German hyperinflation that set in at the beginning of the Weimar Republic , the company's sales plummeted for years. During this time, Julius Buchholz was appointed managing director of Concordia Erdölges, which was also based in Hanover, in 1918 . mbH .

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Only after the introduction of the Reichsmark did the company not only rise to become the largest Hanoverian specialty shop for all types of professional underwear, but was also able to regain its previous position in the industry and beyond throughout Germany.

By eliminating the intermediate trade, the company obtained its first quality fabrics directly from large weaving mills, equipped it itself and produced it with its own state-of-the-art machines. On the 40th anniversary of the company's founding, Julius Buchholz was still the sole owner of the company.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists , the company found, according to the address book of the city of Hanover from 1934 continued during the Easter 13-15, while the producer of his time among the private address Friesenstraße 19 II was to be found.

1938 Julius Buchholz had his private residence in the Hohenzollernstraße 34. During the pogroms against Jews in Hannover from the morning of the 10th to the morning of the 11th November of the merchant and manufacturer was in the police jail or in the gym of the police department of the former military school detention .

See also

Fonts (selection)

  • Julius Buchholz. Butcher's laundry factory , catalog with 20 pages, 1896

Web links

Commons : Julius Buchholz Berufswäschefabrik  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Paul Siedentopf (main editor ): Julius Buchholz / professional laundry factory / first mail order company for butcher's supplies. Hanover, Osterstrasse 13-15. Founded in 1887 , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the images), Jubilee-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 72
  2. ^ A b Patentblatt , published by the Imperial Patent Office, Volume 27, Part 2, Berlin: C. Heymanns Verlag, 1903, p. 1584; [1] through Google Books
  3. ↑ a b c Konrad Heiden : Buchholz, Julius , in the documentation of the Jewish Hanoverians arrested during the pogrom on November 10 and 11, 1938 , in Wolf-Dieter Mechler , Carl Philipp Nies (ed.): The November pogrom 1938 in Hanover . Accompanying volume to the exhibition from November 5, 2008 to January 18, 2009 in the Historisches Museum Hannover (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover , Volume 33), Hannover: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, [2008?], ISBN 978-3-910073-34-0 , Pp. 67-91; here: p. 74
  4. ^ Franz B. Döpper , with Ursula Döpper and M. von der Au (Red.): Victor Buchholz , in dies. Hanover and its old companies. Pro Historica publishing house, Society for German Economic History, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-89146-002-3 , p. 131
  5. ↑ Chemisches Zentralblatt , Volume 2, 1899, p. 736; Preview over google books
  6. ^ Journal of Applied Chemistry , Volume 31, Part 3, Ed .: German Society for Applied Chemistry, Berlin: Springer, 1918, p. 207; Preview over google books
  7. ↑ Compare the digitized version on the website of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library
  8. ↑ Compare the information about Google books

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 23.4 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 11.1"  E