Worsted yarn spinning mill Stöhr
The Kammgarnspinnerei Stöhr & Co. was a German company in the textile industry with headquarters in Leipzig , which was founded in 1880 and one of the leading worsted spinning mills was one in Germany. A long-standing and influential board member was the resistance fighter Walter Cramer , who was executed in 1944 .
history
The company was founded in 1880 by Eduard Stöhr in the legal form of a partnership limited by shares in Kleinzschocher , which was incorporated into Leipzig in 1891 ; the share capital was 1.4 million marks . In 1893 the company relocated its production to a property on Zschocherschen Strasse in Leipzig-Plagwitz . In 1889, Botany Worsted Mills (with combing, spinning, dyeing and weaving) was founded in Passaic ( New Jersey , USA) as a subsidiary, which was lost to US owners during the First World War, but which continued until the 1930s there was a “friendly exchange of interests”. Since 1903 Stöhr held a majority stake in the KG “Konkordia” Spinnerei Stöhr & Co. in Neschwitz (Nebočady) near Tetschen ( Děčín ) in Bohemia . In 1911 the company took over the worsted spinning mill CF Solbrig Söhne AG in Chemnitz and was converted into a pure stock corporation with a capital of 12 million marks. After the First World War, Stöhr took part in the newly founded Vaterländische worsted yarn spinning and weaving mill in Budapest . In 1922 an interest group was agreed with Elberfelder Textilwerke AG (Etag) , and in the following years there was also talk of the Stöhr-Etag Group . In the period of high inflation , the share capital was increased to 72 million marks and after the currency stabilization in 1925 it was converted to 17,620,000 Reichsmarks . The worsted yarn spinning mill Gautzsch AG in Gautzsch was taken over in 1928 - with an increase in the share capital to 22,120,000 Reichsmarks - and in the same year the knitting yarn and weft spinning mill AF Dinglinger in Wüstegiersdorf , Lower Silesia, which, however , was given up as a branch during the global economic crisis in 1932 . In the summer of the same year the share capital had to be reduced to 14,084,000 Reichsmarks. In addition to Walter Cramer, the Stöhr board of directors also included the family members Georg Stöhr (* 1875) and Theodor Gutknecht-Stöhr .
Listed on List C at the referendum in Saxony in 1946 , the Leipzig production site was nationalized in 1948 as VEB Mitteldeutsche Kammgarnspinnerei (Mika) . In the VEB Mika, the worker Margarete Rupp was the initiator of the squat movement in 1953 . In 1967 the name was changed to VEB Buntgarnwerke Leipzig . On January 1, 1969, VEB Leipziger Wollgarnfabrik (formerly Tittel & Krüger) and VEB Sächsische worsted yarn spinning mill Coßmannsdorf were incorporated. VEB Buntgarnwerke Leipzig continued to produce worsted yarns from wool, but also from chemical and mixed fibers.
In West Germany, the company's first spinning machines started operating in leased premises in Rheydt - Odenkirchen (today a part of Mönchengladbach ) as early as 1948 . Five years later, work began on the new building, which is still the home of Stöhr AG today. Over the years, companies have been founded, bought, sold or merged with subsidiaries. In 1976, the worsted spinning mill was spun off from the stock corporation and transferred to the newly founded worsted yarn spinning company Stöhr GmbH . Today it is the holding company for worsted yarn.
On September 1, 2010, the “ worsted yarn ” division was sold to Südwolle GmbH & Co. KG , based in Schwaig near Nuremberg .
literature
- Handbook of German stock corporations . 30th edition 1925, Volume III, p. 5362.
- Handbook of German public companies 37th Edition 1932, Volume II, pp. 2575-2577.
- Beatrix Heintze : Walter Cramer, the worsted yarn spinning mill Stöhr & Co. in Leipzig and the so-called “Jewish question”. Materials on walking the tightrope between help and surrender. (with a foreword by Hans Mommsen ) Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-935693-87-7 . (= Memoirs , Volume 3; edited by the Saxon Economic Archives e.V.)
- Hans Tischert: Places of German work. Volume 14, Europa-Pressedienst, Berlin 1957, sv Kammgarnspinnerei Stöhr & Co. Aktien-Gesellschaft, Wuppertal-Elberfeld, pp. 92–98.
Web links
- Finding aid for inventory 20925 (worsted yarn spinning mill Stöhr & Co. AG, Leipzig) , duration 1880–1955, scope 57 running meters, in the Leipzig State Archives
- Early documents and newspaper articles to Kammgarnspinnerei Stöhr in the press kit 20th century the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handbook of German Stock Companies 1932, cf. literature
- ↑ Handbook of German Stock Companies 1925, cf. literature
- ↑ Weft = hard twisted worsted yarn, which is mostly used for upholstery fabrics ( Wiktionary )
- ↑ Worsted yarn spinning mill Stöhr & Co. AG, Leipzig. (No longer available online.) State Archives Leipzig , archived from the original on April 16, 2011 ; Retrieved May 28, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b VEB Buntgarnwerke Leipzig. (No longer available online.) State Archives Leipzig , archived from the original on April 8, 2011 ; Retrieved May 28, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b History of Stöhr AG. (No longer available online.) Stoehr-ag.de, archived from the original on July 20, 2013 ; Retrieved May 28, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
