Peter Koelln

Peter Kölln GmbH & Co. KGaA
legal form	GmbH & Co. KGaA
founding	1820
Seat	Elmshorn , Germany
management	Christian von Boetticher : ; Managing Director of the personally liable Kölln Industrie- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH
Number of employees	324 (2018, excluding 36 trainees)
sales	124.5 million euros
Branch	food industry
Website	www.peterkoelln.de
	As of December 31, 2018

53.751111111111 9.6547222222222Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ 4 ″ N , 9 ° 39 ′ 17 ″ E

Factory premises, older part, at the Elmshorn harbor that has fallen dry

Kölln factory premises, younger part

The Peter Kölln GmbH & Co. KGaA manufactures since 1820 foods known it is mainly through oatmeal . After six generations of the Kölln family, the company is currently run by Christian von Boetticher , only to be handed over to the 7th generation of the family at a later date. The company is based in Elmshorn in southwestern Schleswig-Holstein in the greater Hamburg area .

history

The company started at the end of the 18th century. In 1795, Hans Hinrich Kölln (1770–1812) bought a small, horse- powered groats mill . For example, he provided the seafarers leaving Elmshorn for Greenland with biscuits . In the course of the wars after the French Revolution and the continental blockade imposed by Napoleon I in 1806 , the company also fell into a crisis. After the death of Hans Hinrich Kölln, the business was continued by his wife.

Her son Peter Kölln (1796–1858) took over the mill and in 1820 founded today's industrial company. The founder's son replaced the old Göpelwerk with a steam engine . In addition to the grain wholesaling, which was the economic focus of the company until the beginning of the First World War , the Köllnflocken-Werke developed into one of the most important oat processors in Europe in the following years. In the 1870s a new mill was built and in the following decades the production capacities were expanded and technically improved. Peter Kölln created a well-known German brand with the “Blossom Tender Kölln Flakes” registered as a trademark in 1937 in the dark blue and light blue packaging. In addition, mueslis and traditional breakfast cereals , but also oat specialties such as melted flakes , oat bran flakes and instant flakes were developed.

In 2004 the company acquired pomp children semolina and Edelweiss milk sugar as well as the brands "Livio", " Biskin ", " Palmin " and "Becht's edible oil" from the company Unilever belonging German Union food Werke GmbH . In mid-2009 was the Livio brand license for ketchup , mayonnaise and dressings to the delicatessen business Homann , the holding company for IFR Capital of Heiner Kamps heard sold.

The grave of Peter Albert Kölln in the cemetery on Friedensallee in Elmshorn

In June 2014 a flagship store was opened in Hamburg's Steinstrasse under the name "Kölln Haferland ", and since the beginning of July 2017 there has been a second shop in Westerland on Sylt, the "Kleine Haferland". In February 2015, Kölln was able to acquire another edible oil brand from Unilever with the renowned “Mazola” label, making it not only the German market leader for cereals , but also for edible oils and fats .

Private

The family grave of the Kölln family (Hans and Peter Kölln) is located in the cemetery on Friedensallee in Elmshorn.

Ernsthermann Kölln (born March 24, 1923 in Elmshorn, † January 28, 2020) was the sole owner from 1956 to 1998, until he handed the business over to his son-in-law Hans Heinrich Driftmann . Until 2015 he was chairman of the supervisory board, then its honorary chairman until his death.

shipping

For many years, oats were delivered via the Krückau and the Elmshorn harbor, which has now become completely sluggish. Four motor ships, the Kornblume , Korngarbe , Corn Ear and the Klostersande sailed in Peter Kölln's house colors. The last departure of the Klostersande was on November 21, 2000. The Klostersande has been a museum ship in Elmshorn since 2016.

Oatmeal pictures

For several decades, sticker pictures were added to the packs for oatmeal . The model for this advertising material was the Liebig pictures . The company maintained its own exchange center for this purpose. Corresponding scrapbooks for sticking in the pictures were issued for this purpose.

literature

Peter Kölln KGaA, company portrait .
Ernsthermann Kölln: Peter Kölln. History of a family business in pictures by well-known artists . Wachholtz Verlag , Neumünster 2013 ISBN 978-3-529-02867-0