Klauser shoe store

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Schuhhaus Klauser GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding May 9, 1936
Seat Wuppertal , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Executive Director:
  • Uwe Gradias
  • Heinrich Traude
Number of employees around 2000 (2016)
Branch Shoe retail
Website www.klauser-schuhe.de

The Schuhhaus Klauser GmbH & Co. KG , also Klauser shoes or short Klauser called, is a German shoe retailer based in Wuppertal .

According to its own information, the company is one of the ten largest companies in its sector in Germany, operates over 75 shoe stores and sports days in Germany under the Klauser brand and employs around 2,000 people (as of 2016).

history

Document from the Bergische IHK : Takeover of Jewish businesses by Aryan entrepreneurs , May 1936

The cornerstone of Klauser shoes was laid by Klara Klauser on May 9th, 1936 with the purchase of the shoe store Kamp from Walter Kamp, who emigrated to the USA, as a "takeover of Jewish shops by Aryan entrepreneurs". In March 1938 the business of the Jew Siegfried Rosenberg was taken over, who had to give it up due to a boycott and fled to South Africa after the Reichspogromnacht . From July 1938 Klauser took over the Schuhpalast at Berliner Straße 127 in Wuppertal-Barmen , which had existed since 1889 ; Another " Aryanization ": The previous owners were Emil Rosendahl, who was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 and murdered there, and Max Guggenheimer, who was able to leave Germany.

In 1965, Maria Prange as a limited partner and Gerd Prange as a personally liable partner bought the shoe retail company located at Berliner Straße 125.

The first new appointment at Prange was Hermann-Josef Richter in 1966 , who headed the company as managing director until the end of 2011. In April 1969 the head office was set up in the Wasserstraße in Barmen.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the company expanded by opening additional branches in Wuppertal and other cities in North Rhine-Westphalia. 1986 the company consists of 28 branches.

In 1989 the small chain Voswinkel was taken over, and in the 1990s further openings were made in Thuringia and Saxony. In 1994 an almost completely new building for the central administration and the central warehouse was built.

At the beginning of 2009, the 51 German branches of the financially troubled shoe store chain Salamander were taken over. The branches will be continued in Salamander Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG . At that time Klauser had 80 branches of his own and had a turnover of around 110 million euros with 1200 employees. As a result of the takeover, the number of employees rose to around 1,800. With that, Klauser ranked far ahead of Deichmann , Leiser and Görtz within Germany within the owner-managed shoe stores in Germany.

In 2011 the company celebrated its 75th anniversary. In this context, the company was u. a. Criticized in the Frankfurter Rundschau because the company chronicle did not provide any information on the history before 1965.

In 2012, the logistics were brought together on a 14,000 square meter area in Wuppertal. The branches in Germany are supplied from there.

In April 2016, Ara AG announced the takeover of Schuhhaus Klauser and the subsidiary Salamander Germany from the Prange family, with retroactive effect from January 1, 2016 . At the same time, on May 1, 2016, the previous company management with the two managing directors Peter Prange and Heinrich Traude was expanded to include Uwe Gradias as another managing director. Ara had already acquired Salamander GmbH in 2009, which operates the Salamander branches in other European countries and holds the trademark rights; thus Salamander has been part of Ara since 2016 .

Brands or houses

  • Klauser shoe store
  • Klauser shoe market
  • Romano (since 1987): high quality shoes of Italian origin
  • Voswinkel (since 1989)
  • Shoe corner in Göttingen
  • Shoe store Mader in Husum
  • Schuh & Sport Krahn in Kempen
  • Footwear (since the 1990s): Self-service shoe markets
  • Böhmer shoes (since 2005): with a total of 10 branches
  • Salamander (since 2009): with the advertising character Lurchi

Trivia

Web links

Commons : Klauser Shoes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Schuhhaus Klauser GmbH & Co. KG (company: information). Schuhhaus Klauser website, accessed May 31, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c Wuppertal: Schuhhaus Klauser celebrates the "Aryanization" of Jewish shops! Ruhrbarone.de, July 15, 2011, accessed on February 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Hans Ch. Dahlmann: "Aryanization" and society in Witten. Münster 2001, pp. 127-131; quoted from: Wuppertal: Schuhhaus Klauser celebrates the "Aryanization" of Jewish shops! In: Ruhrbarone.de, July 15, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b c story . Schuhhaus Klauser website, accessed February 4, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b c Klaus Koch: Lurchi moves to the Wupper: Klauser leads Salamander. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung , January 15, 2009, accessed on February 4, 2017.
  6. ↑ Joachim Tornau: 30 years of company history hidden . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , July 20, 2011, accessed on February 4, 2017.
  7. ↑ Peter Skop: Ara swallows Klauser . In: Schuhmarkt , April 15, 2016, accessed on February 4, 2017.
  8. ^ History . The Schuhhaus Klauser GmbH & Co.KG website, accessed on March 4, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 2.1 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 3.8 ″  E