Kleutgen & Meier

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The factory building at Friesdorfer Strasse 131, which was demolished in 2012

Kleutgen & Meier was a confectionery manufacturing company in what is now the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn . The brand manufacturer was taken over in 1957 by the neighboring competing company Haribo . The historic factory buildings at Friesdorfer Str. 127–135 in the Godesberg-Nord district were demolished in 2012; a process that was criticized in the district council .

history

The company was founded in 1898 by Emil Meier and Ernst Kleutgen. There were (from candy and fruit gum and liquorice products licorice extract ) as Salmiakpastillen prepared and pharmaceutical lozenges. One of the company's confectionary brands was Monarch , which sold one-off items. The manufacturer Emil Meier was a board member of the Association of German Sugar Confectionery and Chocolate Manufacturers eV in Würzburg . The brick factory buildings were built around 1911 based on a design by the Godesberg architect Willy Maß . The building complex on Friesdorfer Strasse also included the Schiller'sche Patentverschluß AG factory (called: Schillerwerk ), the air pressure closure glasses, metal cans, etc. and was taken over by Blechwarenfabrik Limburg on April 1, 1927 , as well as Tapetenfabrik Faßbender GmbH . From around 1907 to 1912/1913, the later founder of the Haribo brand, Hans Riegel , learned to make sweets as an elementary school graduate and unskilled worker at Kleutgen & Meier , where he worked as a "candy maker". Kleutgen & Meier employed forced laborers during the Second World War .

The Haribo factory outlet

Takeover by Haribo

In 1958 the Haribo Group took over the company. The descendants (the community of heirs consisted of eight parties) had no interest in continuing the business. Kleutgen & Meier was the first competing company to be bought by Haribo; In the following years, other providers such as the Solingen Dr. Hillers AG (1968) and the Mainbernheim-based manufacturer Bären-Schmidt (1971). Haribo continued to produce in the Kleutgen & Meier factory that was taken over until 1975; after that the factory was shut down. Piece articles from the Haribo range continued to be sold under the Monarch brand name . These fruit gums and liquorice items (the latter were made from modified starch or agar-agar , a type of tropical algae - avoiding the use of animal substances) could be bought individually from round plastic boxes at kiosks, petrol stations and other sales outlets.

The outer surfaces of the closed Kleutgen & Meier factory were u. a. used as a parking space for the Haribo vehicle fleet. They became known to the general public, as the annual exchange campaign for chestnuts and acorns for Haribo products took place here, in which up to 16,000 collectors take part. From 2003 to 2016 it was located south of the former factory area , the Haribo factory outlet on Weißenburgstrasse . When the move started in 2017 to the county (Rhineland) , this collection campaign was also relocated there.

New construction of the Haribo factory outlet shop, 2019
Further redevelopment of the site in August 2019

Demolition and new construction

In 2011, plans to demolish the Kleutgen & Meier buildings were announced. According to the company management, the area freed by the demolition could have been used to build a Haribo Museum (Haribo World of Experience) that has been planned for a long time . In the late summer of 2012, the buildings of the former Kleutgen & Meier and Schillerwerk factories were closed . Members of the Godesberg district council (including representatives of the Bonn Citizens' Union ) criticized the demolition: a workshop of the Schillerwerk from 1910 was an early steel and concrete construction and was therefore found to be of historical importance by the monument protection authority, which was entered in the monument protection register, there was no demolition permit for the property. The factory buildings of Kleutgen & Meier had also been recommended to the Office for Monument Preservation by the Lower Monument Authority several times as worthy of protection. Haribo representatives named the dilapidation and unsightly appearance of the building as the reason for the demolition. The unauthorized demolition of the Schillerwerk was accidentally done. Haribo declared that he no longer wanted to build a museum on the vacated site. The Bonn administration planned to prosecute the unauthorized demolition of the memorial hall.

In September 2015, the HAFA group of companies acquired the fallow land from the Haribo group. The Hafa group of companies is an amalgamation of four Bad Godesberg companies. Together with Mayor Ashok Sridharan , the investors presented the development plan in autumn 2016, which provides for a total investment volume of 30 million euros. In addition to a building complex with 100 rental apartments (Quartier Bonn-Süd), two office buildings are to be built on the 25,000 square meter area . The offices will be owned by the software companies HICAT and SICAT. In addition, a parking garage with 120 parking spaces is to be built. The design comes from the architect Frank Piotrowski.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ayla Jacob, Future of the Haribo site: City negotiates with investor about Haribo site , August 31, 2016, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  2. ^ Journal of the Association of German Chemists , Part A, Volume 19, Association of German Chemists, German Society for Applied Chemistry (ed.), Verlag Springer , 1906, p. 22
  3. ↑ The company is also described as a pharmaceutical liquorice factory Kleutgen & Meier , according to Christoph Kaltscheuer, Hans Riegel sen. (1893-1945), entrepreneur and founder of the “Haribo” company , October 16, 2013, Rheinische Geschichte portal, Rhineland Regional Council
  4. ^ A b Ayla Jacob, city ​​walk through Godesberg: Imperia motorcycles and Rheila pearls , May 14, 2013, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  5. ^ Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , p. 453.
  6. ^ Marie-Luise Crone, Highlights from the history of Blechwarenfabrik Limburg GmbH, 1872-2012 , August 2012, Blechwarenfabrik Limburg GmbH (ed.)
  7. ↑ Christoph Kaltscheuer, Hans Riegel sen. (1893-1945), entrepreneur and founder of the “Haribo” company , October 16, 2013, Rheinische Geschichte portal, Rhineland Regional Council
  8. ↑ Haribo: Black Art , February 10, 1965, Der Spiegel , edition 7/1965
  9. ^ Riegel, Hans, entrepreneur. In: Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.), German biographical encyclopedia , edition 2, volume: Poethen-Schlüter , ISBN 978-3-11094-0-251 , Walter de Gruyter , 2007, p. 398
  10. ↑ Bettina Grosse de Cosnac, A bear goes around the world: Haribo - From the candy maker to the king of gummy bears. A German family saga , ISBN 978-3-20377-5-210 , Europa Verlag GmbH, 2003
  11. ↑ According to other information, Haribo acquired the competing factory as early as 1957, according to Jessica Backhaus, The birth of the bears in Riegel's laundry room , July 10, 2014, Express Bonn
  12. ↑ Lavinia Fahnster and Veronica Vargas Gonzalez, Biography Hans Riegel, 1923-2013 . In: LeMO-Biografien, Lebendiges Museum Online , Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany
  13. ↑ Haribo: Chronicle in Pictures , Title Photo No. 14 , RP Online
  14. ↑ The colorful world of Haribo , p. 12 , information brochure, Haribo GmbH & Co. KG (ed.)
  15. ^ Letter from the public relations department of Haribo GmbH & Co. KG dated March 8, 1999, on: Muslim-markt.de
  16. ↑ a b c Lars Heyltjes, Haribo site in Friesdorf: Innovation meets tradition , September 21, 2016, Bonner Rundschau
  17. ↑ Entry by Clemens Küpper on the production site of the Kleutgen & Meier confectionery factory (later HARIBO) in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 11, 2017.
  18. ↑ Haribo chestnut campaign moves to the county , August 22, 2017, General-Anzeiger (Bonn)
  19. ^ Rüdiger Franz, Appetit zum Goldbären-Museum , November 10, 2011, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  20. ^ A b Ayla Jacob, Haribo in Bonn: Old brick buildings are being demolished , August 10, 2012, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  21. ↑ a b c Rüdiger Franz and Ayla Jacob, Bad Godesberg District Representation: Haribo is to pay a fine for demolition , January 17, 2013, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  22. ↑ Ayla Jacob, Hafa Group presents plans: Commercial and residential on the Haribo site , September 22, 2016, Bonner General-Anzeiger

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 22.8 "  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 37.4"  E

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