Oscar Weil metal works
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1890 |
| Seat | Lahr , Germany |
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| Website | www.oscarweil.de/ |
The metal works Oscar Weil is a traditional company from Lahr / Black Forest , which is known among other things by the brand name abrazo .
history
The beginnings of the business go back to an iron and leather goods store that two brothers of the Jewish Weil family founded in Allmannsweier . In 1884 a branch was set up in Lahr. After one of the brothers, Oscar Weil (1860–1926), on his travels through Europe, recognized the importance of steel shavings , especially for the maintenance of wooden floors, he started manufacturing this product in 1899 with five workers. In 1901 there were already 12 and in 1914 30 employees. In 1910 the company also moved into a new company building in Tramplerstraße. In 1926 the company was taken over by Hugo Weil (1893–1945), Oscar Weil's son, who from 1931 also produced steel wool and built an extension in 1937.
In 1938 the " Aryanization " of the company, which at that time had 150 employees, was initiated and at the end of 1939 it changed hands. The new owner was the NSDAP district economic advisor Clemens Kentrup , director of the Tscheulin aluminum works in Teningen . Kentrup was married to Emil Tscheulin's daughter. As Baden's regional economic advisor, Kentrup significantly advanced the Aryanization of small and medium-sized businesses, which then had to be confirmed by the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. At that time, President of the responsible Chamber of Commerce and Industry was Kentrup's father-in-law Emil Tscheulin, who probably also financed the takeover of the Oscar Weil metal works by Kentrup.
Hugo Weil emigrated to England and died there in January 1945. In the same year, Iselore Prinz (* 1919), Hugo Weil's daughter, took over the management of the family-owned company, initially with 25 employees, and managed it until 1970.
In 1955 the company already had 100 employees. The metal works is still family-owned and is one of the leading companies in the field of steel shavings, steel wool and similar products.
literature
- Hildegard Kattermann: History and fate of the Lahr Jews. A documentation . Ed. City of Lahr, 1976.
- Roland Peter: The chambers under the swastika. In: Bernd Boll and Ursula Huggle (eds.): The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Southern Upper Rhine. Ed. I. A. IHK Oberrhein - IHK Südlicher Oberrhein, Freiburg 1998, pp. 145–174, ISBN 3-00-002797-1 .