Honer Department Store
The Honer department store was a department store in Bamberg . The main building on Maximiliansplatz was connected to the promenade by a passage.
history
From the Silbermann cloth store to the Rekord department store
In 1842 Lazarus Silbermann founded a cloth business at Maxplatz 10. From this company, a " uniform price business " developed under the premise of supplying customers with groceries and everyday items cheaply. The company had joined the Grohag Leipzig purchasing association. For a short time these shops were run under the name Wohlwert . After the Woolworth Group brought a lawsuit, the Bamberg store was renamed Record .
After purchasing the neighboring house at Maxplatz 12, the properties of Friedrich Silbermann, a grandson of the company's founder Lazarus, were combined into larger sales areas. The expanded record unit price business was opened in October 1931. Due to the economic difficulties of the new company, which cannot be reconstructed in detail today , Margarete Honer from Mühlhausen / Thuringia took over considerable shares from Friedrich Silbermann in the same year . Her husband Emil Honer became managing director. Although the house was a “mixed” company with Jewish and Christian partners, the National Socialists viewed the department store as a Jewish company, which was boycotted and defamed, especially in the first years after the Nazis came to power . This only ended when, in August 1933, the majority of the business was in Honer's hands. To make things clearer, the company management put the note “Record the German business” at the entrance. Silbermann gave up his remaining 10% stake in 1937, but initially remained the owner of the property and received the rental income. In November 1941 Friedrich Silbermann (* 1881) and his wife Alice (born Zenner * 1896) were kidnapped near Riga and murdered. Your daughter was able to save herself in the USA .
Family business Honer
The company was called Rekord Honer & Co as early as 1939, and after the Second World War it was limited to the name of the Honer family. After the end of the war, liquid soft soap, stockings from Chemnitz , cooking pots made from old steel helmets and spinning wheels were the highlights of the range. Like other medium-sized retailers, Honer solved the problem of sourcing goods by joining a wholesale association. He first joined the Grohag, 1935 ERWEGE and finally in 1949 the disciples of buying ring on, who was the department store until its bankruptcy of 2002. Since then it has been a member of EK-Großeinkauf or Sütegro.
In 1946 his son Hans-Joachim joined the company as a manager, in which he took over the entire management at the end of 1950. A phase of expansion followed during the economic miracle. In 1952 the Honers bought the two properties at Maximiliansplatz 10 and 12 from the Silbermann heiress. In 1961 the buildings were demolished and replaced by a new building. Five years later, a sales room was built on the neighboring property, Promenade 13, which in 1987 was connected to the main building by a passage. 1980–1982 the neighboring property Maximiliansplatz 8, acquired in 1972, was rebuilt together with Maximiliansplatz 10/12 to expand the department store.
The department store centrally located in Bamberg remained a leading company in Bamberg for decades and, with the Karstadt department store (formerly Tietz or Hertie ) on the Grüner Markt and the Witt department store (closed in the 1990s) on the corner of Königstraße and Luitpoldstraße, was one of three Retail magnets in the city center. Hans-Joachim Honer's son, Franz-Joseph, joined his parents' company Kaufhaus Honer in 1978 after working as a manager in a department store group and medium-sized department store company.
The assortment ranged from housewares, watches and jewelry, fashion to toys, stationery and sweets. Former departments such as the grocery department in the basement or the drugstore were gradually abandoned.
The department store closed on August 31, 2012. A clothing store moved in as a new tenant for the building.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bambergs Wirtschaft judenfrei , Collibri Verlag
- ^ Company homepage and article in the Franconian Day of January 6, 2012
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '39.3 " N , 10 ° 53' 24.5" E