Lützkendorf mineral oil plant
The Lützkendorf mineral oil plant , commissioned by Wintershall and commissioned by Mitteldeutsche Treibstoff- und Oelwerke AG Kassel , was built on October 26, 1936 in Lützkendorf near Leuna . The plant became one of the largest refineries in Germany for the production of fuels and lubricants. After the completion of the in-house laboratory, the production capacities in 1940 amounted to 75,000 t of fuel and 50,000 t of lubricants per year. From 1944 onwards, the work there was supported by male concentration camp prisoners who were imprisoned in the Lützkendorf satellite camp , a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp .
→ Main article: Air strikes on the Lützkendorf mineral oil plant
During the Second World War , from May 12, 1944 to May 8/9. April 1945, 1,715 bombers of the 8th Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces and the British Royal Air Force dropped a total of 24,000 bombs (5,414 tons) on the plant and its surroundings in fourteen, mostly very heavy air strikes . The production facilities were largely destroyed, almost completely by the RAF on the night of April 8th to 9th, 1945. The plant was occupied by US troops 5 days later, on April 13, 1945.
With Order No. 9 of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany of July 21, 1945, production started again at the end of 1945. On July 20, 1946, Wintershall AG was expropriated in favor of the Province of Saxony. This affected, among other things, the Lützkendorf mineral oil plant, which was transferred to a state- owned company . On November 11, 1946, the plant was incorporated into the “Soviet Stock Company (SAG) for Fuel Industry” and on July 1, 1948 into the “ Association of Nationally Owned Enterprises (VVB) Kohlenwertstoffe”. The products were manufactured in the factory under the name Addinol . In 1951 the production capacity was 65,000 t and by 1964 after the expansion of the production facilities, the capacity increased to 250,000 t of lubricants per year and thus covered the majority of the lubricant requirements of the GDR. At that time, the plant had around 3,600 employees and was the largest lubricating oil manufacturer in the GDR. In 1989 the plant produced 800,000 t of mineral oil products annually, of which around 300,000 t were lubricants, and had around 3800 employees.
On June 9, 1990, ADDINOL Mineralöl GmbH Lützkendorf was founded, which initiated the dismantling of the Lützkendorf mineral oil plant in 1996.
literature
Web links
- History of the mineral oil plant on the Addinol website
- History of the mineral oil works at www.deutsches-chemie-museum.de of the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the mineral oil works
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52963-1 , p. 511. ( Online ).
- ↑ [1] Geiseltal target (the individual air raids)