Lauffenmühle

Lauffenmühle GmbH & Co. KG
legal form	Limited Liability Company & Co. Limited Partnership
founding	1835
resolution	July 31, 2019
Reason for dissolution	Company closure after bankruptcy
Seat	Lauchringen , Germany
management	(Volker Steidel, Werner Ritzi)
Number of employees	last 242
Branch	textiles

Lauffenmühle in Unterlauchringen

Factory site with a disused chimney

The Lauffenmühle GmbH & Co. KG , headquartered in Lauchringen in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Wuerttemberg was a manufacturer of yarns and fabrics for the production of work and protective clothing , in particular for industrial leasing lingerie range. Lauffenmühle last consisted of the factory in Lauchringen and the processing plant in the Loerrach district of Brombach . In 2019, the company still employed 242 people.

Founded in 1835, Lauffenmühle became one of the major employers in the impoverished German Upper Rhine region in the 19th century in the course of industrialization . The work shaped the development of Unterlauchringen from a simple village to today's municipality of Lauchringen.

After the plant was closed at the end of July 2019, the municipality of Lauchringen acquired the Lauffenmühle site at the main site on May 20, 2020.

Company liquidation 2020

After the last management after the fifth bankruptcy and a "production" ended the 185-year-old operation of the company on July 31, 2019, the communities of three former locations are faced with questions about how to deal with the company premises.

Purchase of the area in Lauchringen by the municipality

At the municipal council meeting on the evening of May 20, 2020, Lauchringen's Mayor Thomas Schäuble made the purchase of the Lauffenmühle site public by the municipality: “On May 20, the notarial signatures were made in Stuttgart. The purchase price is 7.5 million euros. "

“The municipality of Lauchringen has included 1,315,000 euros in the 2020 budget for expert opinions, planning and initial demolition work on the Lauffenmühle site. This is the largest infrastructure investment in the current year. ”In addition, there is“ a rain overflow basin on the Lauffenmühle site for 900,000 euros. ”

The contract to investigate contaminated sites on the ground and buildings was unanimously awarded to the company HPC AG by the local council (on February 18 for 37,000 euros).

Company premises in Brombach

Lörrach
The city of Lörrach has a right of first refusal for the Lauffenmühle area in the Brombach district. In addition, “the local council had decided early on a“ pre-emption ”[… and thus] has a right of first refusal at a market price.” This avoids the city “having to put exactly the amount on the table that private investors were willing to pay ".

“The city of Lörrach is about to buy the Lauffenmühle site [from Claas E. Daun], which is a financial feat, but offers it undreamt-of opportunities. Mayor Monika Neuhöfer-Avdic announced that the signatures should be made at the beginning of 2020. [...] Medium-sized craft businesses are to settle on the site of the former textile factory. But it could also be the home for the building yard and a central fire station in the north. "

Blumberg
After the closure of the Blumberg branch in 1995, the current task is to “market the last areas on the Lauffenmühle site [..].” For this purpose, “the Stuttgart insolvency administrator Volker Grub has commissioned the Donaueschingen-based company Immobilien Reichmann. [...] Twelve new single-family building sites on the Lauffenmühle site are planned.

Workforce

At the beginning of October 2019, the municipality of Lauchringen, together with the Federal Employment Agency in Lörrach, organized a "job exchange" for former employees of the company who "appeared in large numbers [...] 15 companies from the fields of craft, industry and recruitment answered questions from potential employees." The managing director of the economic region Southwest: “This response is overwhelming.” Successful mediations were not known as a result. The municipality of Lauchringen had previously taken on a number of employees.

Legal process

According to the SWR announcement in November 2019 “on the insolvency proceedings of the textile company Lauffenmühle, the Waldshut-Tiengen public prosecutor's office is also examining the ancillary business of a manager. [...] It's about a so-called sizing agent - a chemical agent that is used for the weaving process. The managing director procured this material from a dealer and sold it to Lauffenmühle with the help of his own company. Possibly at an increased price. Among other things, this is suggested by invoices and delivery notes that are available to the SWR. […] Lauffenmühle had to pay around 120,000 euros more per year. [...] The Waldshut-Tiengen public prosecutor's office did not want to comment on this for the time being. "

history

The Lauffenmühle company took its name from the "Mühlin an der Wut am Louffen bei nider Loucheringen" (mill at Lauffen), which was first documented as a manorial mill in 1433, a grain mill that is connected to a gypsum mill, oil press, hemp grater and a farm with a restaurant was.

Original natural phenomenon anger running afterwards

Wutach- Lauffen (remaining water)

"The Wutachlauffen would undoubtedly be one of the sights of our homeland if there hadn't been too unhesitating interference with nature at the time of industrialization."

- Walter Weissenberger : The Wutach-Lauffen. In: Heimat am Hochrhein 1969/70. P. 26.

While the mill - according to Weissenberger - still blended harmoniously into the landscape, "where the thundering, swirling waterfall has thundering into its rock basin for thousands of years, a few sparse rivulets splash over the rock step." Next to this, through the diversion of the Water on the turbine caused impairment, the overbuilding was replaced by the old iron bridge, which was replaced by a concrete bridge in 1968: “Due to the course of the road, nothing could be changed in the previous position of the bridge, so that it is still directly over the most interesting part the fast one leads and blocks the unobstructed view of the waterfall. ”“ You have to come to terms with it ”- so the author concludes his contribution -“ that here, as in other rivers, the pursuit of complete utilization of natural water power is a unique piece Nature has been sacrificed. "

Establishment of the factory

The Lauffen , without the dehydration of one of the most powerful natural waterfalls in Germany , offered itself in connection with the first industrial enterprises in the 19th century with its flat environment for economic use. In addition to water power as an energy source, the location within the German Customs Association was also attractive for Swiss entrepreneurs.

The large mill was bought in August 1834 by the Swiss trader Johannes Müller, "who built a factory with 13 spinning chairs in its place, which were driven by large water wheels." The operation began in early 1835. But by the end of the year, "the spinning mill went." to a group of Swiss entrepreneurs who founded the joint stock company 'Spinnerei Lauffenmühle' in 1836 and built a large new factory building a little upstream on the right bank of the Wutach , from which today's important textile factory developed. "

Industrialization and first expansion

Wutach impoundment at the weir between Unterlauchringen and Tiengen, tunnel exit and water drainage for electricity generation

After the transfer of ownership to the Swiss entrepreneurial group in 1835, the factory was considerably expanded in 1846/47 and the Wutach water to generate electricity was diverted through an open channel to a turbine and then returned to the Wutach through a section of channel blasted underground through the rock. This facility still exists today.

The Swiss entrepreneurial group was run by the Fischer family, who were owners until 1914. Already converted into a stock corporation when it was taken over in 1847, there were soon 26 looms in the halls, "1,000 quintals of yarns and cloths were produced annually."

From 1914 to 1935 there were several changes of ownership, most recently also at major banks.

In 1837 the Lauffenmühle employed 105 people, ten years later their number had more than doubled to 250. A workers' house was built together with the new factory building in 1847. In the period that followed, more apartments were built for the workers.

“The time of 'impersonal ownership' ended in 1935 when the Berlin-based Dr. Gustav Winkler bought the Lauffenmühle. At the 100-year-old, there were 30,552 spindles in the spinning mill. There were 1,104 looms in the weaving mill. "

- Michael Neubert : Lauffenmühle. In: Heimat on the Upper Rhine. 2003.

post war period

Together with the son, Dr. Helmut Winkler , succeeded Gustav Winkler "up immediately after the war Lauffenmühle one of the most modern textile companies since World War II in Germany and expand." 1948 with the spinning in Lauchringen and 1950 with that of Egon Eiermann designed new handkerchief weaving in Blumberg there was now two large textile companies, in which initially almost exclusively displaced persons or refugees were employed, later guest workers came , mainly from Turkey. The factory building in Blumberg was demolished in 2009. In 1955 the Winklers acquired the weaving mill from Heinrich Honegger, which was in the immediate vicinity in Lauchringen .

In 1956/57 the renovation and automation began; the major fire in 1962 enabled further expansion "into one of the largest and most modern textile companies in Germany, yes in Europe."

Plant in Lörrach - Brombach

"In Wiesental, the company set up a bleaching plant and in 1963 acquired a large finishing company with the printing and apretur Brombach AG and in 1975 with Merian & Co. GmbH, Höllstein , and Spinnerei & Weberei Steinen GmbH, further important companies for yarn and fabric manufacture."

“In the 1980s, the entire company employed 2,200 people. […] While 19.8 million square meters of fabric were woven in the 1930s, it was already 76 million square meters in 1986. "

Status of the Lauffenmühle 1991

In 1991 the company was "one of the ten largest fabric producers in Europe with around 2240 employees who work in five plants", the Lauffenmühle is one of the largest employers in the Upper Rhine region. [...] Thanks to the consistent use of the latest technology, the Lauffenmühle now occupies a leading position within the European textile industry. "

The Lauffenmühle saw itself prepared for the European internal market and "expected many advantages" through the removal of bureaucratic obstacles, through "facilitating the design of cooperations and mergers" and saw itself in relation to the free movement of goods through its "Europe-wide (s) activities " Experienced.

EC internal market

The European single market , which was established on January 1, 1993, presented the economies of the participating European nations with considerable changes, which required extensive adjustments in almost all corporate areas.

background

With the textile crisis , which began in the 1960s due to competition in the Far East and was aggravated in the 1980s due to the general relocation of production to the low-wage countries , the Lauffenmühle was no longer ahead after the establishment and opening of the EC internal market immune to the price dumping that is now beginning . Since the 1990s this has led to a phase of great economic challenges.

Lettering on the spinning mill building

Opening of the EC internal market

The establishment of the EC internal market, which at the same time means an opening to world trade, already allowed a preview of possible problems:

The company saw the "starting position in the price war" endangered by "high wages and high additional wage costs" as well as by: "Strict working and social regulations, coupled with relatively short working hours and the EC-wide shortest operating times" and the high, required "investment volume" which “(must) pay for itself over a much longer period of time due to the shortest machine running times.” The “strict and costly environmental requirements” in Germany are also mentioned compared to the USA, which “account for an even higher proportion of the gross national product than the Federal Republic of Germany in environmental protection (invested). After all, the highest corporate tax rate in an international comparison has a particularly high impact. "

Despite these concerns, the company was seen internally as being able to “face the demands of the new, large European market. Lauffenmühle and its employees are aware of this new task. "

But regardless of the optimistic attitude and the supposedly good 'line-up', the company's first bankruptcy notification was made in 1993.

First bankruptcy

After the first phase insolvency 1993/94 the work was from December 1994 'with the support of the country and the banks continue to work. ", But after the next insolvency 1996/97 operation was then fully before the corner. After investors from India had withdrawn for a short time and the Deutsche Bank ceased all support, there were joint actions by management, works council and workforce as well as the municipality of Lauchringen under Mayor Berthold Schmidt. An “open day” for the population and a demonstration in Freiburg at the headquarters of Deutsche Bank also aroused national interest and “on February 1, 1997, the German investor Claas E. Daun took over the textile supplier through its mechanical cotton spinning and weaving mill.”

Owned by the Daun Group

After the investment in Lauffenmühle in 1997 by the entrepreneur Claas E. Daun , the mechanical cotton spinning and weaving mill Bayreuth GmbH became the majority owner in 1997.

North side of the company premises

Restructuring until 2015/2016

A long-term restructuring began under Daun's leadership, which primarily had to relate to the decommissioning of deficit production areas and thus continuously burdened the earnings situation:

The operational company Lauffenmühle GmbH & Co. KG, which at that time still had around 450 employees, again filed for bankruptcy on March 9, 2009, but this was canceled on August 21, 2009. With the restructuring, the plant in Blumberg was also closed.

“The creditors agree to the bankruptcy administrator's restructuring plan [Volker Grub] and waive 90 percent of their claims. The 175-year-old company says goodbye to fashion textiles and specializes even more in work and safety clothing. ”After the bankruptcy was lifted in 2009, Volker Steidel became a shareholder.

In September 2015, Lauffenmühle again applied to the Waldshut district court to open insolvency proceedings. “On September 29, 2015, the provisional insolvency administrator was attorney Dr. Philipp Grub from the 'Chancellery Grub Brugger' was appointed by the Freiburg District Court. “With this 'partial insolvency', the management succeeded in completing the lengthy restructuring and reorganizing the ownership structure:

Before the reorganization “2009/10 […], the Daun Group, which at that time still owned more than 75 percent of Lauffenmühle, only gave (money) if there was security. 'And that came about with the transfer of the machines and the property' [... to the subsidiary] Lauffenmühle Systems. "

On July 1, 2016, the long-standing managing director and, since 2009, shareholder Volker Steidel, acquired additional shares in the company and then owned 47 percent. Werner Ritzi, who has been the second managing director since 2015, became a co-partner on July 1, 2016, also with 47 percent of the shares. The mechanical cotton spinning mill and weaving mill Bayreuth GmbH still holds a minority share of 6 percent.

In connection with the two bankruptcies in 2009 and 2015 and the associated restructuring, Lauffenmühle succeeded in convincing its creditors of the future viability of the company and in receiving their support. In addition to radical market adjustments and the concentration on special fabrics, this was also achieved through a product strategy described as "sustainable"; Among other things, a new product line made from biodegradable fibers was developed. In addition, the current shareholders, who are directly responsible for the management, gradually made their own investments.

The transformation of the classic European textile manufacturer of the post-war period, which served a diverse standard and fashion segment, into a competitor that was not only viable in global competition but also innovative thanks to special developments, is now ordered locally in addition to an offensive company strategy and internal cohesion, also in 1994 and 2009 Insolvency administrator Volker Grub attributed: "You are not exaggerating when you say: Grub has ensured that important jobs in the municipality of Lauchringen have been preserved."

Organizational structures

Movement of goods at the main portal

Since 2009 the company was organizationally divided into a production company Lauffenmühle GmbH & Co. KG and the sales company Lauffenmühle System GmbH .

Realignment of production

Due in particular to "sales losses and price drops in standard fabrics", the decision was made in 2015 to "part with standard fabrics and concentrate exclusively on the areas of functional fabrics, customer-related special items, colored fabrics and the warehouse business with web and professional shops that have been growing for years."

The associated insolvency in 2015 was “unavoidable” because, in the opinion of the management, the “adjustment of production” was not understood by the owners and the “substantial funds required for this were not made available by the shareholders” <. As a result, the two managing directors took over the majority of the shares. After "the creditors unanimously accepted the insolvency plan, the insolvency proceedings were repealed by the Waldshut-Tiengen District Court [beginning of March 2016]."

Workforce

The 2015 insolvency proceedings involved the closure of 49 jobs: “The employees concerned were able to join an employment and qualification company, said Philipp Grub. The main goal of such an independent company is to enable employees to find a new job through qualification measures and support in the application phase without intermittent unemployment. "

The job balance of decades of crisis management and the reorientation of the company to adapt to the (world) market has led to a reduction in the workforce since the early 1990s to around 15 percent of the jobs. The permanent threat of closure of the company was avoided in favor of an operationally oriented scale with a qualified permanent workforce.

Environmental production

During a visit to the company in August 2017, the President of the Federal Environment Agency , Maria Krautzberger , discovered that Lauffenmühle met the criteria for environmentally friendly products and services.

The company's lecture emphasized that “since 2007, instead of cotton, the so-called Tencel fiber has been (used), which is produced from wood residues and requires 50 times less land than cotton and 20 times less water. Since 2014, formaldehyde-free fabrics have been important. In 2015 the company joined the Alliance for Sustainable Textiles. "

The decisive innovation, which should enable a renewed presence on the international market, “was successful with the fabrics reworx² and infinito². […] This is where the so-called ' cradle to cradle' (from cradle to cradle) project comes into play. ”With this fully biodegradable material,“ the focus is on the production of industrial, washable and high-performance fabrics. ”Lauffenmühle is concentrating on clothing especially in the laundry leasing sector.

For this innovation, the company "received the international award for 'Best Innovation - Sustainable Textile Products'."

Bankruptcy 2019

After the start of the fifth insolvency proceedings since 1993 on January 11, 2019 at the Waldshut-Tiengen District Court, which surprised the public, "the future of the company [...] should now be secured by selling it to external investors."

Production hall of the weaving mill

End of operation on July 31, 2019

At the beginning of April 2019, “the insolvency administrator ended the search for potential investors. The focus is now on the development of a social plan and a balance of interests for the employees, said lawyer Boris Sakowski. The search for investors for the traditional company was unsuccessful. "

The remaining 240 employees were dismissed at the end of April. It was regretted that the new, long-lasting (doubling to 100 industrial washes) and recyclable fabric could not establish itself on the market.

Announcement of the plant closure
At the works meeting on April 4, 2019, the 240 employees of Lauffenmühle in the Lauchringen and Lörrach locations were informed that “the company (will) cease production on July 31, 2019”. Then there was a spontaneous demonstration on the factory premises.

After the bankruptcy in January, it was not possible to find investors "who secure the takeover and continuation of the operations in [the locations]." (Insolvency administrator Philipp Grub). The "final insolvency proceedings" were initiated on April 1, 2019 by the Waldshut-Tiengen district court.

Rally, Lauchringes Mayor Schäuble in conversation

Since the bankruptcy declaration, there have been six interested parties who "gradually [...] have distanced themselves from their takeover intentions," said Mayor Thomas Schäuble, but the last "offer (was) far from targeting and acceptable to the creditors' committee."

Franz Ritter, union secretary of IG Metall Waldshut, implies employee allegations because of wrong decisions by the management, which the chairman of the works council of the company named as "omissions". Now, however, it would be important to process the existing orders "in order to be able to pay the wages [... and] to generate money for a social plan."

Meeting of employees on April 13, 2019

Rally
On Saturday, April 13, 2019, the Lauffenmühle workforce had called for a rally on the company premises. In addition to interested parties from Lauchringen and the surrounding area, employees from the Lörrach location and the surrounding large companies such as the aluminum works in Wutöschingen and the Hago company in Küssaberg took part. Speeches were held alongside employees of Lauchringen's Mayor Thomas Schäuble and Felix Schreiner, a CDU member of the Bundestag . "The high capacity utilization and effectiveness in all departments" of the company was emphasized. He is currently in talks with the Austrian investor Kufner. Operations manager Grabow sees causes "in addition to errors in management [... in a] product that was not successful in the market."

Dealing with plants and industrial wasteland

The machine park of the Lauffenmühle was sold with the provisional end of the bid on October 16, 2019 "on behalf of the insolvency administrator."

The schedule for the new use of the area in Lauchringen is determined by the results "on the condition of the floors and buildings [...] of the 75,000 square meter area [...] but reliable data from the soil investigations should be available by the middle of next year. [...] Chemical pollution is not assumed in the Lauchringer Boden. Chemicals were only used at the Lörrach location. ”In September 2019, there were no specific concepts for possible new uses. "The municipality of Lauchringen has a statutory right of first refusal for the Lauffenmühle site."

Internal conflict in 2019

"According to information from the former workforce, it was already clear at the end of 2017 that Lauffenmühle was in trouble. 'That became clear through the sale of the high-bay warehouse and the turbine.' ”In addition, a few months later, the insolvency administrator Philipp Grub's vehicle was on the premises. After filing for bankruptcy in January 2019, the workforce was announced to be closing in April.

Accusations by the workforce
As early as mid-July, “employees and former employees raised allegations against the two managing directors Volker Steidel and Werner Ritzi as well as the Daun Group, Mayor Thomas Schäuble and insolvency administrator Philipp Grub. [...]: 'The company could have been saved if one would have wanted that too. '”The victims rejected the accusation and its differentiated justifications with partly comprehensive explanations. Mayor Schäuble spoke of the task of the municipality, “after a possible closure of the company, to prepare a plan B and to decide what should happen to this inner-city industrial wasteland.” He announced a closed meeting of the municipal council in September. The mayor emphasized that the municipality had "hired four Lauffenmühle employees", that he had also offered personal advice and "had discussions with local businesses and companies."

Investigations by the public prosecutor's office
The allegations from the workforce and trade union circles were taken up by the Waldshut-Tiengen public prosecutor's office: “The investigation is based on the suspicion of 'bankruptcy and the delay in bankruptcy.' Furthermore, possible 'unjustified payments' should play a role. "It is also a question of" whether components of the assets that belong to the bankruptcy estate in the event of the opening of insolvency proceedings have been put aside or hidden. "The insolvency administrator Philipp Grub said that he was “So far, no irregularities have been noticed.” Managing director Werner Ritzi, who came to the company in 2014 through the Daun Group , said that his examination and that of a business consultancy had “no abnormalities” at the time. The transfer of machines and land to a subsidiary Lauffenmühle Systems in the fourth bankruptcy in 2009/10 was aimed at ensuring the security of a new investment by the Daun Group. Today Lauffenmühle Systems "also belongs to the bankruptcy estate." The second managing director Volker Steidel described the disputed payments to a company in Taiwan as "legal". According to research by SWR, "this company does not officially exist in Taiwan."

For the development in 2020, see: Company processing 2020

Remarks

↑ Around 900 employees worked in Lauchringen in 1991, 300 in Blumberg, around 700 in Lörrach and Brombach and 340 employees in Höllstein produced “the most popular fabric in the world: denim . (N. Efringer, list p. 46).
↑ With the filing for bankruptcy on March 9, 2009, the demolition of the second Lauffenmühle hall of the weaving mill in Blumberg began . The first hall had already been torn down “a few years ago”, reported the Südkurier: The halls were built by the “architect Egon Eiermann and inaugurated at the end of 1950 as Europe's most modern handkerchief weaving mill. Egon Eiermann also designed the Memorial Church in Berlin . For decades, the Lauffenmühle was considered by architecture students all over the world as a study object for a modern industrial building. In its heyday, up to 800 people found work in the former weaving mill, mostly women. ”( Second Lauffenmühle hall is being demolished. In: Südkurier. March 10, 2009).
↑ The insolvency application concerned the production company - the sales company was not affected by the insolvency: "According to [insolvency administrator Philipp] Grub, customer relationships therefore remained unaffected by the insolvency." (Susann Klatt-D'Souza: Lauffenmühle dismisses 49 employees during insolvency proceedings. In: Südkurier. March 5, 2016.)
↑ In 2014 Lauffenmühle had already published in a specialist publication on "fibers developed jointly with partners that offer properties comparable to polyester in terms of functionality , but which - unlike polyester - are safe for biological material metabolism after further processing and use ." Yarns and fabrics with their “raw materials, as well as all aids used for production, can be returned to the biological cycle without risk”. The fiber material was named "infinito³ [...] for the production of the industrially washable fabric reworx ⁴ " and "awarded the certification status Cradle to Cradle Certified ^CM1 Gold." ( Lauffenmühle GmbH & Co. KG in: Kompetenzatlas Faserbasierte Werkstoffe, Ed .: Allianz Fiber-based materials Baden-Württemberg eV (AFBW), Ostfildern 2014, p. 94.).

Web links

Commons : Lauffenmühle - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Lauffenmühle GmbH website removed since July 27, 2019
History of the Lauffenmühle on the website of the municipality of Lauchringen

literature

Walter Weissenberger: The angry runner at Unterlauchringen-Tiengen. In: Heimat am Hochrhein, series of publications by the district of Waldshut. Volume 4, 1969/70.
Nikolaus Efringer (with the collaboration of the Lauffenmühle's junior support group): Textile market and Lauffenmühle - successful in the domestic market. In: Heimat am Hochrhein, yearbook of the district Waldshut 1992. Volume XVII, Verlag des Südkurier Konstanz 1991, ISBN 3-87799-103-3 .
Karl-Friedrich Hoggenmüller: The community Lauchringen. In: Heimat am Hochrhein, yearbook of the district of Waldshut. Volume XXI, 1996, ISBN 3-7650-8159-0 .
Michael Neubert: Lauffenmühle. 176 years of textile production in Lauchringen in: Heimat am Hochrhein, yearbook of the district of Waldshut 2011. Edition Isele, Eggingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86142-506-9 , p. 52.
Peter Gerigk: Lauffenmühle - long struggle for a textile location on Haagensteg. In: Stadt Lörrach (Ed.): Stadtbuch Lörrach 2019 , Lörrach 2019, ISBN 978-3-9820354-1-3 , pp. 116–121.

Individual evidence

↑ Rolf Sprenger: municipality acquires Lauffenmühle site , Albbote, May 22, 2020.

↑ Rolf Sprenger: Liquid thanks to property sales , Alb-Bote, January 25, 2020.

↑ Rolf Sprenger: Expert opinion should provide clarity , Albbote, February 22, 2020.

↑ Guido Neidinger: Lauffenmühle: City buys , in: Die Oberbadische , July 16, 2019. [1] Accessed on January 28, 2020.

↑ Peter Gerigk: Lauffenmühle site offers Lörrach unexpected opportunities . Badische Zeitung, January 26, 2020 Retrieved January 28, 2020.

↑ Bernhard Lutz: So the last area on the Lauffenmühle in Blumberg should finally be built on , January 23, 2020. 2/2 Access on January 28, 2020.

^ Rolf Sprenger: First step into a future after the Lauffenmühle , Südkurier, October 4, 2019.

↑ Business of a Lauffenmühle managing director, November 7, 2019, accessed on January 28, 2020.

↑ Karl-Friedrich Hoggenmüller: The community Lauchringen. In: Heimat on the Upper Rhine. 1996, p. 13 ff.

^ ^A ^b Walter Weissenberger: The Wutach-Lauffen. In: Heimat am Hochrhein 1969/70. P. 27.

↑ Walter Weissenberger: The rage running at Unterlauchringen-Tiengen. In: Heimat am Hochrhein, 1969/70. P. 26 ff.

^ Michael Neubert: Lauffenmühle. 176 years of textile production in Lauchringen. In: Heimat am Hochrhein, yearbook of the district of Waldshut 2011. Edition Isele, Eggingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86142-506-9 , p. 52.

^ According to: Karl-Friedrich Hoggenmüller: The community of Lauchringen. In: Heimat on the Upper Rhine. 1996, p. 16.

↑ Nikolaus Efringer (with the collaboration of the Lauffenmühle sponsoring junior group): Textile market and Lauffenmühle - successful in the domestic market. In: Heimat am Hochrhein, yearbook of the district Waldshut 1992. Volume XVII, Verlag des Südkurier Konstanz 1991, p. 42.

^ Michael Neubert: Lauffenmühle. 176 years of textile production in Lauchringen. In: Heimat am Hochrhein, yearbook of the district of Waldshut 2011. Edition Isele, Eggingen 2010, p. 53.

↑ N. Efringer / Promoting Young Talent: Textile Market and Lauffenmühle. P. 42 ff.

↑ N. Efringer / Promoting Young Talent: Textile Market and Lauffenmühle. P. 43.

↑ N. Efringer / Promoting Young Talent: Textile Market and Lauffenmühle. P. 49.

↑ N. Efringer / Promoting Young Talent: Textile Market and Lauffenmühle. P. 52.

↑ Chronicle v. Andreas Bader in: Heimat am Hochrhein, 1996, p. 109 and 111.

↑ The time period is documented in the film "Der Kampf der Lauffenmühle 1996/97" financed by the municipality of Lauchringen and the company, impulse video production 1998, archive of TV Eichberg .

↑ Ulrike Wollenschläger: Textilwirtschaft, March 9, 2009.

↑ Lauffenmühle is insolvent. In: Badische Zeitung . March 10, 2009 ( badische-zeitung.de ).

↑ Lauffenmühle leaves bankruptcy. In: Badische Zeitung . August 21, 2009 ( badische-zeitung.de ).

↑ Toni Schäfer: This and that in the district of Waldshut. Economy. In: Heimat am Hochrhein, yearbook of the district of Waldshut 2011. Edition Isele, Eggingen 2010, p. 113.

↑ Forum Advantum September 30, 2015 .

↑ Information from Werner Ritzi in: Susann Duygu-d 'Souza: Investigations against Lauffenmühle In: Südkurier. August 1, 2019.

↑ Textile company Lauffenmühle is reorganizing. In: Südkurier. July 20, 2016. Based on a press release from the Lauffenmühle Group of July 18, 2016 ( suedkurier.de ).

^ Michael Neubert: Lauffenmühle. 176 years of textile production in Lauchringen in: Heimat am Hochrhein, yearbook of the district of Waldshut 2011, Edition Isele, Eggingen 2010, p. 53.

↑ ^a ^b press release of the Lauffenmühle, quoted in in: Uthe Martin / BUT: Lauffenmühle again insolvent. In: Südkurier. October 1, 2015, p. 29.

↑ Susann Klatt-D'Souza: Lauffenmühle dismisses 49 employees during insolvency proceedings. In: Südkurier. March 5, 2016 ( suedkurier.de ).

↑ Quotations in the section: Susanne Schleinzer-Bilal: High visit to the Lauffenmühle. In: Alb-Bote . August 30, 2017.

↑ Insolvency administrator Philipp Grub in: Peter Rosa: Lauffenmühle fifth time insolvent. In: Südkurier . 15th January 2019.

↑ Lauffenmühle closes . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 5, 2019 ( sueddeutsche.de ).

↑ Melanie Mickley: One last look at the looms in: Südkurier, May 6, 2019.

↑ Peter Rosa: 166 employees lose their jobs , Südkurier April 5, 2019.

↑ Kai Oldenburg: "The shutdown was inevitable" In: Südkurier. April 6, 2019.

↑ Herbert Schnäbele: Great solidarity from the population In: Südkurier. April 15, 2019.

↑ Netbid: Complete machine park from the areas of spinning, weaving and dyeing - location 79787 Lauchringen Netbid Auctions .
↑ Peter Rosa: Old walls for young companies? In: Südkurier. September 21, 2019.
↑ Susann Duygu-D'Souza: restart for employees. In: Alb-Bote. October 10, 2019.
↑ Susann Duygu-d'Souza: Lauffenmühle employees raise allegations. In: Albbote. July 20, 2019. Article online only with registration.
↑ Susann Duygu-d'Souza: Investigations against Lauffenmühle In: Südkurier. August 1, 2019.
↑ Investigations against Lauffenmühle .

[16] Around 900 employees worked in Lauchringen in 1991, 300 in Blumberg, around 700 in Lörrach and Brombach and 340 employees in Höllstein produced “the most popular fabric in the world: denim . (N. Efringer, list p. 46).

[26] With the filing for bankruptcy on March 9, 2009, the demolition of the second Lauffenmühle hall of the weaving mill in Blumberg began . The first hall had already been torn down “a few years ago”, reported the Südkurier: The halls were built by the “architect Egon Eiermann and inaugurated at the end of 1950 as Europe's most modern handkerchief weaving mill. Egon Eiermann also designed the Memorial Church in Berlin . For decades, the Lauffenmühle was considered by architecture students all over the world as a study object for a modern industrial building. In its heyday, up to 800 people found work in the former weaving mill, mostly women. ”( Second Lauffenmühle hall is being demolished. In: Südkurier. March 10, 2009).

[33] The insolvency application concerned the production company - the sales company was not affected by the insolvency: "According to [insolvency administrator Philipp] Grub, customer relationships therefore remained unaffected by the insolvency." (Susann Klatt-D'Souza: Lauffenmühle dismisses 49 employees during insolvency proceedings. In: Südkurier. March 5, 2016.)

[35] In 2014 Lauffenmühle had already published in a specialist publication on "fibers developed jointly with partners that offer properties comparable to polyester in terms of functionality , but which - unlike polyester - are safe for biological material metabolism after further processing and use ." Yarns and fabrics with their “raw materials, as well as all aids used for production, can be returned to the biological cycle without risk”. The fiber material was named "infinito³ [...] for the production of the industrially washable fabric reworx ⁴ " and "awarded the certification status Cradle to Cradle Certified ^CM1 Gold." ( Lauffenmühle GmbH & Co. KG in: Kompetenzatlas Faserbasierte Werkstoffe, Ed .: Allianz Fiber-based materials Baden-Württemberg eV (AFBW), Ostfildern 2014, p. 94.).

[1] Rolf Sprenger: municipality acquires Lauffenmühle site , Albbote, May 22, 2020.

[2] Rolf Sprenger: Liquid thanks to property sales , Alb-Bote, January 25, 2020.

[3] Rolf Sprenger: Expert opinion should provide clarity , Albbote, February 22, 2020.

[4] Guido Neidinger: Lauffenmühle: City buys , in: Die Oberbadische , July 16, 2019. [1] Accessed on January 28, 2020.

[5] Peter Gerigk: Lauffenmühle site offers Lörrach unexpected opportunities . Badische Zeitung, January 26, 2020 Retrieved January 28, 2020.

[6] Bernhard Lutz: So the last area on the Lauffenmühle in Blumberg should finally be built on , January 23, 2020. 2/2 Access on January 28, 2020.

[7] Rolf Sprenger: First step into a future after the Lauffenmühle , Südkurier, October 4, 2019.

[8] Business of a Lauffenmühle managing director, November 7, 2019, accessed on January 28, 2020.

[9] Karl-Friedrich Hoggenmüller: The community Lauchringen. In: Heimat on the Upper Rhine. 1996, p. 13 ff.

[Weissenberger27-10] A ^b Walter Weissenberger: The Wutach-Lauffen. In: Heimat am Hochrhein 1969/70. P. 27.

[11] Walter Weissenberger: The rage running at Unterlauchringen-Tiengen. In: Heimat am Hochrhein, 1969/70. P. 26 ff.

[12] Michael Neubert: Lauffenmühle. 176 years of textile production in Lauchringen. In: Heimat am Hochrhein, yearbook of the district of Waldshut 2011. Edition Isele, Eggingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86142-506-9 , p. 52.

[13] According to: Karl-Friedrich Hoggenmüller: The community of Lauchringen. In: Heimat on the Upper Rhine. 1996, p. 16.

[14] Nikolaus Efringer (with the collaboration of the Lauffenmühle sponsoring junior group): Textile market and Lauffenmühle - successful in the domestic market. In: Heimat am Hochrhein, yearbook of the district Waldshut 1992. Volume XVII, Verlag des Südkurier Konstanz 1991, p. 42.

[15] Michael Neubert: Lauffenmühle. 176 years of textile production in Lauchringen. In: Heimat am Hochrhein, yearbook of the district of Waldshut 2011. Edition Isele, Eggingen 2010, p. 53.