Emil Köster leather factory
| Emil Köster leather factory | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1892 |
| resolution | 1966 |
| Seat | Neumunster , Germany |
| management | Emil Köster |
| Number of employees | up to 1300 |
| Branch | Leather industry |
The leather factory Emil Koster (from 1920 Emil Koster AG) was a 1892-founded and until 1966 existing enterprises of leather industry , based in Neumünster , Schleswig-Holstein .
history
In 1892 Emil Köster opened a sheepskin tannery at Wrangelstraße 34 in Neumünster ( Lage ). The tannery had in the initial phase with chrome specializes tanned sheepskin. This leather was marketed under the name Chevrolin . The wool that fell off during tanning made up about 30 percent of the company's turnover. As early as 1893, the factory was enlarged with extensions on the site of the former Voigt synthetic wool factory, and in 1896 a larger steam engine was purchased for the factory.
In 1910 the company was converted into a stock corporation, in 1914 the company burned down in a major fire, but could not be fully rebuilt due to the beginning of the First World War . In 1920 Adler & Oppenheimer bought the factory in Wrangelstrasse. In 1921 a new plant was built in Gadeland (haar 224) ( Lage ), which was again run by Heinz Köster. The company grew rapidly during this time, so that up to 1,300 people were employed in the Gadeland plant. The factory was badly damaged by a major fire in 1937, but it was rebuilt in the following years and as a result one of the world's most modern production facilities for sheep and goatskin.
In the years after the Second World War , the company ran into economic difficulties and finally had to stop production in 1966. As a result of years of processing leather and the discharge of leather waste water into the sturgeon , the soil near the factories is still contaminated with anthrax . The factory on the hair was partially demolished, some buildings such as the administration building and some factory halls directly on the hair still remind of the factory.
Civil Internment Camp No.1
After the war, the military government of the British occupation zone in occupied Germany used ten machine halls of the Emil Köster KG leather factory (Gadeland plant) for Civil Internment Camp No.1 . People were interned there who could be presumed to have been important functionaries of the NSDAP. In the fall of 1945 there were over 10,000 people in the camp, including several hundred women.
Emil Köster
The trained tanner Emil Köster (* August 13, 1867; † December 14, 1932) bought the Villa Köster at Parkstrasse 11, in the center of Neumünster, and lived in it with his family. The family grave is located in the north cemetery. Emil-Köster-Straße and Emil-Köster-Platz near the Gadelander plant were named after him.
A street in the Gadeland district , a little south of the plant, is also named after Heinz Köster .
Fate of the former plant in Wrangelstrasse
Adler & Oppenheimer was forcibly "Aryanized" during the Nazi era ; the former factory in Wrangelstreaße operated as part of the Norddeutsche Lederwerke AG . The plant in Wrangelstrasse is now on the list of cultural monuments in Neumünster .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Economy between the North and Baltic Seas, IHK Schleswig-Holstein, edition 11.2012 (PDF; 3.0 MB)
- ↑ a b Company history of the Emil Köster leather factory
- ↑ Information on the near-natural expansion of the sturgeon , accessed on February 10, 2016
- ↑ Uwe Danker: Interning, denazifying and re-educating. First coming to terms with the past after 1945 . In: Gerhard Paul, Uwe Danker, Peter Wulf: Geschichtsumschlungen. Social and cultural history reader, Schleswig Holstein 1848–1948 , Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-8012-0237-2 , p. 286.
- ^ Ernst Bamberger, Wilhelm Hamkens: a friendship in Mittelholstein under the Nazi regime (2000), in Rendsburger Jahrbuch, supplements Volume 1, publisher: Kreisverein Rendsburg for local history and history, 281 pages, ISBN 3-89811-835-5
- ↑ Historical graves at the north cemetery in Neumünster
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