Kori (company)
The H. Kori GmbH was in Berlin resident, on the air heater specialized company which existed from 1887 until 2012.
Company history
founding
The company was founded in Berlin in 1887 by the engineer Heinrich Kori (* February 21, 1860; † June 26, 1938) at Dennewitzstrasse 35. He became famous for his Kori waste incineration ovens and calorifiers for air heating, which are especially used in church buildings Found use.
Business lines and products
H. Kori GmbH initially specialized in incinerators for removing animal carcasses. Gradually, the company's activities expanded to include the construction of facilities for incinerating all kinds of waste and crematoria .
Participation in the Holocaust
During the Holocaust , the company, like the company JA Topf & Sons in Erfurt , supplied cremation ovens for the extermination process of the concentration camp victims in the gas chamber buildings of the concentration and extermination camps . The Kori company initially produced mainly transportable crematorium ovens, which were later walled in (or installed in a fixed location), but Kori also built fixed crematorium ovens in the camps. While the Topf & Sons company increased the number of corpse cremation chambers in its ovens, Kori produced single muffle ovens throughout . Reference is made to the Kori company at the Topf & Sons memorial site .
Kori installed crematorium ovens in the concentration camps Stutthof , Neuengamme , Ravensbrück , Vught , Bergen-Belsen , Sachsenhausen , Mittelbau-Dora , Majdanek , Groß-Rosen , Flossenbürg , Hersbruck , Blechhammer , Trzebinia , Natzweiler-Struthof , Dachau , Mauthausen , Melk and Ebensee . Kori crematorium ovens were also located in the killing centers in Pirna-Sonnenstein and Hartheim .
After the Second World War
After the Second World War, Kori continued its business activity.
Around 1975 the business areas included church and large-scale heating, central heating and ventilation systems, incinerators for all types of waste, garbage chutes and firing systems. Since the company premises were to be redeveloped, the company moved to Berlin-Neukölln , Rudower Straße 122, in 1976 , where it continued to produce until around 2003.
After ceasing production, Kori continued to exist as a company for nine years. The non-assets company was dissolved in 2012 by the Charlottenburg District Court (Berlin) and struck from the commercial register.
literature
- The Korische iron furnaces: their construction, design and use for the various purposes of individual heating, ventilation and drying systems ; 1907
- Bertrand Perz , Christian Dürr, Ralf Lechner, Robert Vorberg: The Mauthausen crematoria. Catalog for the exhibition at the Mauthausen Memorial . Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs. Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502183-8-1 .
- Bertrand Perz, Christian Dürr, Ralf Lechner (eds.): Managed violence. The area of activity of the head of administration in the Mauthausen concentration camp from 1941 to 1944 . In: Mauthausen studies , edition 8. Federal Ministry of the Interior. Vienna 2013. ISBN 3950282424 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 55 (1935), p. 146.
- ^ Health engineer, Volume 61 (1938)
- ↑ Company history at gleisdreieck-blog.de
- ↑ Request from the commercial register H. Kori GmbH ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
