Max Klett KG

Max Klett KG
legal form	Limited partnership
founding	1929 in Böblingen
resolution	1985
Seat	Boeblingen , Germany
management	Executive Partner: Max Klett (1929–1955);
Number of employees	about 300
Branch	retail trade

The Max Klett KG was a retail company in Böblingen , which was disbanded in the 1985th

Company history

In 1915 Max Klett took over the management of the grocery store that his mother Anna Klett had opened in Böblingen in 1905 . In 1925 he opened his first branch and from 1928 integrated a health food store . In 1929 Max Klett KG was entered in the commercial register. Before the beginning of the Second World War, the company grew into the largest grocery store in the city of Böblingen. With the second bombing of Böblingen in July 1944, the main office building was completely destroyed. After the entrepreneur's death in 1955, his widow Else Klett took over the management of the company, soon supported by her daughter Helga and her son-in-law Josef Nowak.

In 1959, the Max Klett company opened the first supermarket in southern Germany on Bahnhofstrasse in Böblingen on 740 square meters. Another six supermarkets followed by 1974. With the emerging competition, the Max Klett KG company cooperated with Gaissmaier GmbH & Co. KG from Ulm in 1974 and 15 of the 30 branches were closed due to insufficient profitability. With the sale of the company Gaissmaier GmbH & Co. KG to the Nanz Group in 1984, the Max Klett KG branch ended. In 1985 Max Klett KG was deleted from the commercial register.

The reform store Klett eK, which was separated from the branch company, has been in the third generation in Böblingen since 1995.

At the highest level, Max Klett KG had 35 branches with around 300 employees.

Supermarket branches:

1959 Boeblingen supermarket at Bahnhofstrasse
1962 Böblingen Leere Wasen supermarket
1965 Böblingen Siebeneck supermarket
1968 Böblingen Grund supermarket
1970 Leinfelden-Echterdingen supermarket
1971 Sindelfingen Domo supermarket

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Max Klett KG, Boeblingen (HRA 2067). In: http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=2-2204069 (accessed on February 10, 2019).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Erich Kläger: Böblingen: history in shapes. Ameles Verlag, Böblingen 2003, pp. 387-394.
↑ Max Klett builds the second large supermarket. In: District newspaper Böblinger Bote. (1965, September 14).
↑ About us: The history of our company. In: http://www.reformhaus-klett.de/ueber-uns/ (accessed on February 3, 2019).

[Max_Klett_KG,_Böblingen_(HRA_2067)-1] Max Klett KG, Boeblingen (HRA 2067). In: http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=2-2204069 (accessed on February 10, 2019).

[Böblingen:_Geschichte_und_Gestalten-2] Erich Kläger: Böblingen: history in shapes. Ameles Verlag, Böblingen 2003, pp. 387-394.

[Max_Klett_baut_den_zweiten_großen_Supermarkt-3] Max Klett builds the second large supermarket. In: District newspaper Böblinger Bote. (1965, September 14).

[Über_uns:_Zur_Geschichte_unseres_Unternehmens-4] About us: The history of our company. In: http://www.reformhaus-klett.de/ueber-uns/ (accessed on February 3, 2019).