Lohmann Tierzucht

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Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH

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founding 1932
Seat Cuxhaven GermanyGermanyGermany 
management
  • Javier Ramírez Villaescusa
Number of employees 200
sales EUR 60 million
Website www.ltz.de

The to EW Group owned Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH , based in Cuxhaven is the German market leader in breeding and production of laying hens -Elterntieren ( hybrid chickens ), bred either for laying or high high growth performance. Lohmann is a monopoly in this area in individual countries .

Lohmann also produces specifically pathogen-free hatching eggs for research and vaccine production. Lohmann calls these eggs “VALO SPF” (Vaccine Lohmann, Specific Pathogen Free) and sells them as the basis for the production of flu vaccines. The company claims to be Europe's largest supplier of SPF eggs.

Erich Wesjohann is responsible. His brother Paul-Heinz Wesjohann is the founder of the PHW Group , which includes Wiesenhof . The Wesjohann family was one of the 500 richest Germans in 2014 . Public relations work is supported by the Heinz Lohmann Foundation .

The managing director is Rudolf Preisinger .

history

The company was founded in 1932 as Deutsche Fischmehl GmbH, began breeding poultry in 1957 and began breeding laying hens in 1959 with licenses from Heisdorf & Nelson (USA). The establishment of flocks for the production of VALO-SPF eggs began in 1968. The broiler area was outsourced to the Lohmann Indian River in 1994.

Lohmann is now regarded as the world's largest breeder of laying hens and is one of the pioneers in the internationalization of agribusiness in Germany and the commercialization of breeding advice.

Products

Lohmann Tierzucht offers the following laying hens on the markets:

animal cruelty

In September 2011, the district court of Cuxhaven issued a penalty order for cruelty to animals against the Lohmann Group. Accordingly, the combs and toes of roosters were cut off over a long period of time in the company's operations. The amputations were carried out only for marking and without anesthesia. The verdict states that both the comb and toes are well-supplied with blood and are nerve-supplied body parts, "so that cutting them off hurts the animals very much and the pain lasts for a long time." The defendants were aware of this fact. The company was sentenced to a payment of 100,000 euros, the highest sum ever punished for a violation of the Animal Welfare Act .

The managing director responsible for the amputations, Rudolf Preisinger, received a suspended fine. According to Spiegel, he only escaped a tougher sentence "because the authorities in Lower Saxony had tacitly tolerated these practices for a long time, as the prosecution's investigations showed."

Lohmann has been working with the Demeter cultivation association for a number of years on the development of a so-called dual -purpose chicken , a cross between “two laying and two fattening lines, which should guarantee that the hens produce enough eggs and the roosters still set enough meat”, so also to solve the problem of the killing of male chicks in laying hens.

Holdings

Aerial photo (2013): One of several Lohmann breeding facilities in Nordholz in the Cuxhaven district

Lohmann has the following subsidiaries and has investments in several companies. The company has been a subsidiary of the German EW Group since 1987 .

subsidiary company
  • Lohmann Holland BV, Netherlands (since 1987)
  • H & N International GmbH, USA (since 1997)
  • Lohmann Tierzucht Canada Ltd., Canada (since 2001)
  • Lohmann France SAS, France (since 2001)
Holdings
  • Working group of Lohmann Vermehrer (since 1986)
  • JV Agalyk-Lohmann Parranda AOOT UG, Uzbekistan (since 1997)
  • Iberica de Tecnologia Avicola, SA, Spain (since 2000)
  • Animalco AG, Switzerland (since 2000)
  • Lohmann GB Ltd., UK (since 2001)
  • Avizoo Lohmann Italia srl, Italy (since 2003)
  • JV Lohmann-Ishonch-Nadejda, Uzbekistan (since 2005)
  • VALO 2005 España SL, Spain (since 2005)
  • Granja Rodriguez Serrano SL, Spain (since 2008)

See also

Web links

Commons : Lohmann Tierzucht  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ltz.de: Contact Persons
  2. ↑ Company profile on www.ltz.de , accessed on July 3, 2016
  3. ^ Lohmann Tierzucht: Self-portrait of the managing director Rudolf Preisinger on Youtube
  4. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt: Report by Kathrin Fichtel in the Abendblatt November 21, 2009
  5. ↑ DasErste.de : ARD-exclusiv: Breeding for the world market ( Memento from January 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Lohmann Tierzucht: Valo Today ( Memento from April 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ a b Lohmann Tierzucht: History of Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH ( Memento from October 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Livestock breeding through the ages, Peter Glodek, Peter, Cuvillier Verlag, 2004, p. 32
  9. ↑ Lohmann Tierzucht, laying hens ( memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Criminal orders for cruelty to animals
  11. ↑ Record fine for breeding company Lohmann , DER SPIEGEL 38/2011
  12. ↑ Karl Doeleke: Poultry company has to pay a fine , Hannoversche Allgemeine, September 14, 2011
  13. ↑ Sustainability innovations in the food industry: from organic pioneers and conventional innovation leaders, Franz-Theo Gottwald , Anke Steinbach, Behr's Verlag DE, 2011, p. 32
  14. ^ The new dual-purpose chicken , Bavarian TV, December 20, 2013 ( Memento from December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ The dream of the miracle chicken comes true, Marion Meyer-Radtke, Die Welt 2013

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