Kampffmeyer Mills
The Kampffmeyer mills GmbH , based in Hamburg was one of Germany's largest providers of grain products for the food industry and the baking industry. It was a division of VK Mühlen AG and operated with its subsidiaries under the brand “Kampffmeyer Milling Group”. The nine mill locations of Kampffmeyer Mühlen GmbH included a. the Aurora Mühle Hamburg , the Ellmühle Cologne and the Hildebrandmühlen Frankfurt am Main . Mainly wheat and rye are ground there. Marketing and sales for food retail products were bundled in the sales company "Aurora Mühlen GmbH".
history
The history of the Kampffmeyer mills goes back to the Middle Ages. From the former windmills and water mills with relatively low and fluctuating output , modern and efficient mills emerged over the centuries, especially in the course of the industrial revolution . The history of the group of companies is documented in an e-book.
The group of companies went back to Emil Kampffmeyer, who founded the company in Potsdam in 1883 . His son, Kurt Kampffmeyer Sen., expanded the trade beyond regional borders and laid the foundation for further growth with the purchase of the Potsdam steam mill in 1915. In 1922 the company headquarters was relocated to Berlin and the company expanded by taking over a number of traditional mills and silo operations. After the Second World War, the mill lost numerous facilities and a. in Potsdam, Jarmen and Pritzwalk . The company headquarters were initially relocated to Hameln and then to Hamburg. With the death of Kurt Kampffmeyer Sen. in 1949, his son Kurt Kampffmeyer Jun. Took over the company, expanded it and managed it centrally with a uniform appearance.
In 1983 the company had to be restructured as a stock corporation . Therefore, the Vereinigte Kunstmühlen Aktiengesellschaft (since 1989 VK Mühlen ) took over the company, under whose holding it has been operated since then. The main, protected traditional brands of the company included "Aurora", "Gloria", " Diamant " and "Rosenmehl".
In October 2014 the entire VK Mühlen AG renamed “ GoodMills Deutschland GmbH”.
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Kampffmeyer mills in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Kampffmeyer : Blood relatives German families in the course of the centuries . Dallmeyer, Greifswald, 1939 (history of the Kampffmeyer family )
- ↑ Historical development ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ a b Wenk, Erik: With a lot of flour to power. pnn Potsdamer Latest News, Potsdam 2012