Julius Votteler's successor
Julius Votteler's successor was a company in Reutlingen that mainly manufactured artificial leather . In 1974 it went bankrupt .
history
Pre-war period: Friedrich Haarburger senior
Around 1870 the bookbinder Julius Votteler founded a cardboard box factory, which a few years later relocated and moved to Reutlingen's Bahnhofstrasse. In 1888 Friedrich Haarburger senior (* 1855, † 1920) bought this factory. He switched production and specialized in paper and fabric coatings as well as in the manufacture of artificial leather; his clientele included the bookbinding, shoe and leather goods industries. Nine to twelve percent of the artificial leather production in the German Empire before the Second World War came from Haarburger's factory.
Friedrich Haarburger and his wife Fanny, geb. Hess, three children: Karl (* 1893; † 1935), Alice (* 1891; † 1942) and Heinrich / Ernst (* 1897; † 1927), who died early. In 1902 he had a house built at Danneckerstraße 36 in Stuttgart based on his own designs. He and his family moved there in 1903 from Reutlinger Bismarckstrasse 4 in order to ensure an appropriate education for the children. The house has been preserved and still bears Friedrich Haarburger's initials.
Third Reich: Karl Haarburger
Friedrich Haarburger's son Karl, who, like his brother , had served as a soldier in World War I , took over management of the company after his father died.
Karl Haarburger married Johanna Seible in 1926. Hitler's assumption of office as Chancellor in 1933 apparently did not irritate him; German-national minded, he considered himself and his company safe. Apparently he was considered a “decent Jew” in Reutlingen and did not suffer from the changed circumstances.
After Karl Haarburger died of cancer in 1935, the company got into trouble. Both raw material allocations and yields decreased. In 1937 " Aryanization " was initiated. At that time, 74.75 percent of the shares were still owned by Alice Haarburger and the descendants of Heinrich Haarburger, all of whom were considered “full Jews”. Karl Haarburger's children Hanna and Friedrich Haarburger junior, who were classified as “half-Jews”, owned the rest. On December 4, 1937, the company CF Roser from Stuttgart-Feuerbach took over 75 percent of the shares. The rest also went into non-Jewish hands. The Haarburger family only received an unreasonable amount for the company. In 1938 she also had to sell the house on Danneckerstrasse well below its value. The company was now led by Karl Räuber.
Post-war period: Friedrich Haarburger junior
The factory buildings suffered considerable damage during the air raids on Reutlingen on January 15 and March 1, 1945. Räuber had the damaged machines recovered and repaired. It was also he who after the war - Friedrich Haarburger junior, who, unlike many other family members , had survived the Third Reich , initiated a refund procedure in 1946 and applied to the State Office for Finance for the company's assets to be taken under official control - as Asset manager was employed. Since Räuber had founded Westo GmbH in Pirmasens at the end of 1946 , which was to develop into a competitor for Haarburger, he was no longer interested in rebuilding the Reutlingen company. In 1950, Friedrich Haarburger junior took over a more or less ruined company as the new managing director. Hanna and Friedrich Haarburger junior filed a lawsuit against the state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern and hoped for compensation after the state was found guilty of willful breach of official duties in 1956. The state of Baden-Württemberg as legal successor to Württemberg-Hohenzollern appealed and also lost before the next instance. The process finally gained the reputation of "the longest and most complicated, most expensive and most unfortunate legal dispute that the state of Baden-Württemberg has ever fought", as stated in an article in Der Spiegel in 1965 .
Only in 1967 was it possible to agree on a settlement, which, however, ultimately turned out to be extremely unfavorable for Haarburger: As a result, the company got into trouble due to the 1973/74 oil crisis and finally had to file for bankruptcy. The factory buildings were demolished a few years later, and the chimney was blown up in 1978. In the 1990s, the former company premises were partially built over; Among other things, the Reutlingen notary's office is located there. In 2003, Julius Votteler's successor was deleted from the commercial register due to lack of assets.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alice Haarburger and her family at www.stolpersteine-stuttgart.de
- ↑ Eternal pain. Traces of life of Jewish schoolgirls , in: Schwäbisches Tagblatt , January 30, 2012
- ↑ Twelve Years of Time , in: Spiegel 23, 1965, June 2, 1965
- ↑ Jürgen Kempf, First Aryanized, then plundered , in: Reutlinger General-Anzeiger , September 8, 2011