Marienhütte in Fürstenwalde
The Marienhütte in Fürstenwalde is a paint production company founded in 1921 as Wreschner Farbenwerke in Fürstenwalde-Nord in today's state of Brandenburg , which, after a checkered history, is now part of the Deutsche Amphibolin-Werke (DAW) group as the operating location of Lacufa GmbH .
history
In 1921 the Jewish entrepreneur Abraham Wreschner founded the Wreschner Farbenwerke on the former site of the Fürstenwalde airfield , a factory for the production of the white pigment Lithopone using a process from barium sulfate and zinc sulfide . For a long time, the pigments obtained using this method were the only raw material for opaque colors.
The Fürstenwalder plant was about 1,937 as part of the linearization in the IG Farben integrated under the name Marie hut in Fürstenwalde continued as Farbenwerk. The company's founder, Abraham Wreschner, was probably able to emigrate to England. During the Second World War , the production facility was the target of various bomb attacks.
In 1946 the company was expropriated and in 1948 it was converted into the VEB Chemische Werke Fürstenwalde . The plant was then included in the list of investment projects in 1951 by the Ministry of Heavy Industry of the GDR .
In 1953, the Marienhütte workforce took part in the uprising of June 17 and marched together with other strikers from the region to Fürstenwalde to demonstrate in front of the district council building.
In the 1970s and 1980s the plant was called Lithoponewerk Fürstenwalde and was part of the VEB Kali-Chemie , parent company of the VEB Kombinat Lacke und Farben (Lacufa). During this time, the state-owned company, under its director Gerhard Helbig, was also very committed to the city of Fürstenwalde. For example, a swimming pool was built in 1971, which still exists today as the Schwapp sports and fun pool .
Most recently, the plant had the status of Operations Directorate Fürstenwalde and, together with the associated operations departments in Bernsdorf and Wünschendorf, had 748 employees. After the reunification , in 1990 the company became a location of Lacufa AG, which was founded by the Treuhand and which ceased production of lithophones for environmental reasons in the same year. In 1992 the company was taken over by the DAW Group and continued as Lacufa GmbH; In 1997 the location was expanded to include a large logistics center .
In 2014, the parent company announced that production in Fürstenwalde would be relocated completely to Eastern Europe by 2016 and that the location would only remain as a logistics center.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fürstenwalde industrial history. Fürstenwalde Nord Portal, accessed on December 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Pharus-Plan Fürstenwalde (Spree) 1933. Pharus-Verlag 1992, accessed on December 30, 2015 .
- ^ IG Farbenindustrie AG, Central Finance Administration: Abraham Wreschner, Wicken / England in the German Digital Library , accessed on December 29, 2015.
- ^ Save - Wreschner, Abraham; Germany; Company Director; “Lodore,” Deanshanger, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. January 4, 1947. THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 21, 1947, accessed December 29, 2015 .
- ↑ company expropriations ; 1946 - 1956. Brandenburg State Main Archives, accessed on December 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Final balance 1948 and balance sheet 1949 of the VEB Chemische Werke Fürstenwalde. Brandenburg State Main Archives, accessed on December 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Investment projects 1951: Vol. 4 in the German Digital Library , accessed on December 29, 2015.
- ↑ June 17, 1953 in Strausberg and Fürstenwalde. Federal Agency for Civic Education, accessed on December 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , Thursday March 3, 1983, Volume 38, Issue 52, p. 1
- ↑ Our story 1992. DAW, accessed on December 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Dirk-Henner Wellershoff: Transformation of the combine paints and colors In: GABLER EDITION WISSENSCHAFT Empirische Transformationsforschung. Pp. 15-23.
- ↑ Production cut off at Lacufa until 2016. Märkische online newspaper, accessed on December 29, 2015 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 36.8 " N , 14 ° 4 ′ 32.5" E