Martin Brinkmann AG
The Martin Brinkmann AG is a traditional Bremen companies in the tobacco industry .
History until 1945
In 1813 the merchant Nicolaus Wilkens founded a tobacco shop in Bremen's old town and a tobacco factory in Burgdamm near Bremen, where cigarettes were made. Since Heinrich Johannes joined the company as a partner in 1837, the company was called Wilkens & Johannes . Another renaming took place when Martin Brinkmann bought the company in 1878 - from then on it was known as Martin Brinkmann . The company was later managed by his son Wenzel Brinkmann and after his death in 1900 it was sold to the 22-year-old Hermann Ritter .
The company flourished from 1900 and expanded rapidly when Ritter acquired additional companies in Treffurt and Heidelberg . In 1910 he gave up the location in Burgdamm and had a new factory built in Woltmershausen . At the beginning of 1929, the company, which had previously existed in the legal form of a limited partnership , was finally converted into the Martin Brinkmann joint stock company, which was one of Europe's largest tobacco factories, by merging with the Ansgari printing company Wolfgang Ritter . Hermann Ritter's son Wolfgang Ritter did an apprenticeship at Brinkmann in the 1920s and in 1929 became a board member of the company alongside Arend Feindt .
From 1931, cigarette production became more and more important. After the National Socialists came to power , the company made its appearance as early as 1934 through a company social policy such as the establishment of a spacious and attractively designed works canteen, which was used in the synchronized press for the KdF program to attract workers to the National Socialist state. The administration moved from Bremen to Berlin in 1937 . Due to bombing raids , the administration was relocated to Tirschenreuth (Eastern Bavaria) and then to Lindau on Lake Constance in 1943 .
History after 1945
In 1949 Brinkmann was initially founded as a GmbH . By resolution of the general meeting on June 25, 1963 Brinkmann became a stock corporation again . The share capital amounted to 5 million DM, each share was issued for 1000 DM.
In 1957 part of the production was relocated to West Berlin , in 1984 further parts of the company were relocated from Woltmershausen to Berlin with state funding . The number of employees in production fell from 1,000 to just 100 thanks to automation .
In 1966 the globally active Rupert Group initially took over a minority stake and in 1972 the remaining share capital of Martin Brinkmann AG .
From 1992 Brinkmann belonged to the Rothmans International group . Currently (2008) it is part of the British American Tobacco (BAT).
Products
- "Golden Mixture" pipe tobacco
- Lloyd (cigarette)
- Fatima (cigarette)
- Alva (cigarette)
- Texas (cigarette)
- Brinkmann's pride (fine cut tobacco)
- Lux filter (cigarette)
- Peer Export (cigarette)
- Lord Extra (low-nicotine cigarette), formerly "Lord" by Nestor Gianaclis
- Schwarzer Krauser (fine cut tobacco)
- Pipe tobacco Puertorico (coarse cut)
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Web links
Short biography of Wolfgang Ritter
Individual evidence
- ^ Report in the Weser-Kurier on June 14, 2019
- ↑ a b Handbook of German Stock Companies , 37th edition 1932, Volume 3, p. 4682 f.
- ↑ Dieter Pfliegensdörfer: From a trading center for armorers. Economy, state and working class in Bremen from 1929 to 1945. University of Bremen Research focus on work and education, Bremen 1986, p. 290.
- ↑ according to the Bremen commercial register, HRB 1681, entry no. 87/1963
- ↑ https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-stadt_artikel,-mit-tabak-zum-erfalt-_arid,1839129.html
- ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13510409.html