Consumption Leipzig

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Consumption Leipzig eG

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legal form registered cooperative
founding 1884
Seat Leipzig , Germany
management Dirk Thärichen, Board Spokesman, Michael Faupel, Board Member
Number of employees 908
sales € 138.7 million
Branch retail trade
Website www.konsum-leipzig.de
As of June 17, 2020

The consumer Leipzig eG is a cooperative society based in Leipzig and 61 stores in Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia . The consumer cooperative Leipzig is a member of the Zentralkonsum eG Berlin.

history

The consumer association, which was founded in Leipzig in 1848, was banned again on July 4, 1850. The new founding of a consumer association took place on April 21, 1865. However, this dissolved itself after heavy economic losses in 1872.

In 1887 elected board member of the cooperative, in the middle the long-time managing director Georg Fell
Shop on Bahnhofstrasse, 1887
Interior of the shop, 1909

On February 3, 1884, the founding meeting of the Consum Association for Plagwitz and the surrounding area took place, at which 68 people apply for membership. The members' share of the business was set at 50 marks, of which a third was to be paid in weekly installments. On May 8, 1884, the consumer association was entered in the cooperative register, and on August 4, 1884 the first consumer shop was opened in Plagwitzer Bahnhofstrasse 5 (today Weißenfelser Strasse 33). Another shop followed on October 1, 1887 at Hauptstrasse 32 (today Windorfer Strasse) in Kleinzschocher .

In 1889 the cooperative acquired a 2000 m² site in Plagwitzer Steinstrasse (later Jahnstrasse, now Industriestrasse) for 39,000 marks. In 1890 the foundation stone was laid for a cooperative's own bakery. A central warehouse and a house with office rooms and apartments were also built here. In the period that followed, the number of members rose and further branches were opened in the city area. As early as 1898, the association was operating 24 sales outlets.

Headquarters in Jahnstrasse, around 1900

Through further land purchases in 1894, 1896 and 1901, the area in Plagwitzer Jahnstraße 85-95 could be expanded to Braustraße (today Naumburger Straße). After purchasing two neighboring buildings and incorporating part of the old development, the consumer center , built by Fritz Höger in the Expressionist style between 1929 and 1932 , is still the seat of the consumer cooperative Leipzig eG today.

The forcible renaming of the consumer cooperative in the Leipzig-Plagwitz consumer cooperative was made by the resolution of the meeting of representatives on June 20, 1934, the entry in the cooperative register took place on September 10, 1935. At that time, the SA - Obersturmführer Rudolf Süß took over the management of the association. This marked the beginning of the co-ordination of the cooperative, at the end of which the cooperatives were dissolved and incorporated into the joint venture of the German Labor Front (GW) with the ordinance on adapting the consumer cooperative institutions to the wartime economic conditions of February 18, 1941 . The shares totaling 560,000 Reichsmarks were returned to the members, while the cooperative's assets, however, amounted to 11 million Reichsmarks and thus seemed lost.

As in the rest of Germany, the liquidated associations in Saxony were combined to form “supply rings” of the joint venture. On November 22, 1941, the joint venture - supply ring Leipzig GmbH , to which about one sixth of the Saxon territory belonged, was entered in the commercial register. In addition to almost all branches of the Leipzig cooperative, the branches of the Zwenkau and Borna , Golzern and Eilenburg cooperatives belonged to it .

Immediately after the end of the war, the supply ring, under American direction, provided supplies for the former forced and foreign workers as well as for the military administration, schools and hospitals. When the Soviet troops took power on July 2, 1945, the Leipzig supply ring was one of the confiscated companies. Therefore the supply of the population could not be secured. It was not until the SMAD order No. 176 on the restoration of the consumer cooperatives in the Soviet occupation zone of December 18, 1945 that the clubs were again allowed to sell “managed food and industrial goods” and operate their own wholesale business. The extensive assets of the cooperative were transferred back to them. The old name of joint venture remained valid until September 1, 1946.

Even before the GDR was founded, the SED had prevailed in the Leipzig consumer cooperative. In 1949 the cooperative was subordinated to the Association of German Consumer Cooperatives (VDK) in Berlin. Just like the state- owned enterprises , the consumer cooperative now had to transfer a large part of its profits to the state. With the formation of the districts in the GDR in 1952, 14 district associations replaced the regional associations founded in 1946. The consumer cooperative association for the district of Leipzig existed until 1999 and was then transformed into Konsum Leipzig Handels- und Dienstleistungsgesellschaft mbH , a subsidiary of Konsum Leipzig eG.

Konsum Leipzig eG was split up on September 30, 1952 into a city cooperative and a country association (Konsumgenossenschaftsverband Kreis Leipzig eGmbH) . With the restructuring of the city ​​cooperative, the consumer cooperative association Stadt Leipzig eGmbH was created on January 1, 1961 with seven independent city district cooperatives . On January 1, 1968, the unified consumer cooperative of the City of Leipzig emerged from the city district cooperatives . The members of the Landverband merged on January 1, 1969 to form the Leipzig District Consumer Cooperative .

Today's Konsum Leipzig eG was founded on January 1, 1991 . It was created through the merger of the consumer cooperatives Stadt Leipzig, Kreis Leipzig and Delitzsch. When it was founded, it had 579 sales outlets and 71 restaurants, of which at the end of 2008 there were 60 supermarkets and 10 neighborhood shops (smaller branches with 80… 200 m²).

Department stores

Department store on Zschocherschen Strasse, 1901
Former Joseph consumption, 2011

After the first department stores threatened to compete with the consumer association, he rented two department stores himself, one at Lindenauer Markt 18 and one at Zschocherschen Strasse 41a. Sales began there on February 9th and October 28th 1900. A department store with its own property at Dresdner Straße 55 was added in 1903. The rented department stores were operated until October 1912 and then given up. This was followed by "Joseph Konsum", which opened on October 24, 1912. The three-story building at Karl-Heine-Strasse 46, designed by the architect Emil Franz Hänsel , had a retail area of ​​1,600 m²; it was expanded to Josephstrasse 44-46 in 1913 and 1929/30.

Two more department stores were opened on November 1, 1914 in Südstraße 109 (today Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 151) and in 1926 in Halleschen Straße 114 (today Georg-Schumann-Straße) as “special distribution points”.

After the smashing of the consumer cooperatives during National Socialism, the department stores belonged to the joint enterprise Kaufhaus-Gesellschaft mbH . During the Second World War, the department store on Dresdner Strasse burned down completely on February 20, 1944. After the war it was rebuilt as a department store construction in 1947/48.

After the expropriations resulting from the referendum in Saxony in 1946 , the cooperative took over the former Rudolf Knoop department store in 1947 . In 1949, the Epa department store (Einheitspreis AG) at Lützner Straße 70 , which was built in 1929, was taken over; it was later named Kaufhaus Deutsch-Sovietische Freund , Kaufhaus der 1000 Dinge and Kontakt-Kaufhaus “Moderne Hauswirtschaft” . The Indanthrenhaus at Thomaskirchhof 22, which opened in 1904, was also taken over in 1949 as a department store progress (later Topas fashion house ).

On January 1, 1965, the Leipziger Konsumgenossenschaft had to hand over three department stores - the department store on Brühl, the one on Josephstraße and the one on Dresdner Straße - to the central trading company Konsument . The unattractive department store on Dresdner Strasse was returned to the property of the Leipzig cooperative in 1968. Until 1990/91 she managed the three department stores Thomaskirchhof, Lützner Straße and Dresdner Straße.

Department stores

The first department store of the consumer cooperative opened in July 1967 on Nordstrasse. It had a sales area of ​​165 m². Four larger department stores were added in autumn 1969. The stores, each 430 m² in size, were located at An der Märchenwiese, Lützner Strasse, Anhalter Strasse and Trinitatisplatz.

In 1989 the cooperative had 18 department stores, most of which are still in operation today and have since been converted into modern supermarkets.

Current

Consumption supermarket Könneritzstrasse, 2011

In 2006 the cooperative built the first shopping center on its own in Gohliser Coppistraße. The building by the architects RKW Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky was awarded the Leipzig City Architecture Prize in 2007. Further new shopping centers followed in 2008 in Schleußiger Könneritzstrasse and 2013 in Sebastian-Bach-Strasse, both also designed by RKW, and in 2007 the supermarket at the Zoo in Nordstrasse, designed by the BAUKOMPLEX office community. In a former production hall in the historic Westwerk complex in Leipzig-Plagwitz, a branch was opened in 2019 in the immediate vicinity of the first goods issue point of the Consum-Verein for Plagwitz and the surrounding area. The first branch in Chemnitz was opened in autumn 2017.

Today Konsum Leipzig operates 61 branches in the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Various markets were named SuperMarket of the Year by the specialist magazine “Lebensmittel-Praxis” in 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2013 . Under the name LOFEX (abbreviation for Local Food Express ), the consumer cooperative has had its own delivery service for selected products since 2001.

Important consumer cooperatives from Leipzig

literature

  • Mustafa Haikal : Good business. The history of the Leipzig consumer cooperative. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86730-084-1 .
  • Stefan Jaunich: Wilhelm Fischer (1885-1970). Chairman of the board of the Leipzig consumer cooperatives from 1925 to 1948. In: Michael Rudloff, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): “There are also pests like this in Leipzig”. Social Democrats and the SED. Lang, Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3-631-47385-0 , pp. 202-212.
  • Dirk Thärichen, Michael Faupel (editor); Mustafa Haikal, Enrico Hochmuth (authors): Knackwurst, caraway schnapps and kisses. Stories from 135 years of consumption in Leipzig. Leipzig Media GmbH, Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-942360-18-0 .

Web links

Commons : Konsum Leipzig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konsum Leipzig: Imprint (accessed on May 7, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c Konsum Leipzig accelerates its growth in 2018. Press release, February 11, 2019.
  3. ^ Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 312.
  4. ↑ Haikal: Good business. P. 32 ff.
  5. ↑ a b c d Haikal: Good business. P. 245.
  6. ↑ Haikal: Good business. P. 55 ff.
  7. ↑ a b c Haikal: Good business. P. 241 f.
  8. ↑ Haikal: Good business. P. 61 ff.
  9. ↑ Haikal: Good business. P. 251.
  10. ↑ a b Haikal: Good business. P. 240.
  11. ↑ Haikal: Good business. Pp. 125-145.
  12. ↑ Haikal: Good business. Pp. 147-152.
  13. ↑ Haikal: Good business. Pp. 155-161.
  14. ↑ a b Haikal: Good business. P. 244 f.
  15. ↑ Haikal: Good business. P. 83 ff.
  16. ↑ a b c Haikal: Good business. P. 249 f.
  17. ↑ a b Haikal: Good business. P. 252 f.
  18. ↑ Haikal: Good business. P. 248.
  19. ↑ a b Konsum Leipzig: History. Since 1884 - and still fresh. ( Memento of September 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  20. ↑ Office Community architects and engineers building complex: consumption North Road, Leipzig. ( Memento of July 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  21. ↑ Stefan Bach: Konsum Leipzig opens architecture branch in the historic Westwerk. port01 Leipzig, April 11, 2019.
  22. ↑ Matthias Benz: After 23 years, Konsum is returning to Chemnitz with 270 square meters of retail space in the Rosenhof. port01 Leipzig, October 20, 2017.
  23. ↑ Haikal: Good business. P. 247.
  24. ↑ LOFEX - consumption brings it.